Ballard Power Systems Ag

Manroland Ag

Michael Schonert

Stefan Boneberg

Josef Schneider

Rainer Stamme

Thomas Stark

Thomas Hoeger

A method serves the purpose of introducing fuel and/or thermal energy into a gas stream flowing to a catalytic reactor. The gas stream flows in part through an exterior chamber and in part through an interior chamber, which is at least partially open in the flow direction and to which fuel is supplied. The partial streams are re-united after flowing through the two chambers and are fed to the catalytic reactor. In a starting phase of the still cold catalytic reactor, the fuel is burned in the interior chamber. During conventional normal operating modes of the warm catalytic reactor, the fuel is vaporized in the interior chamber. In a suitable device, the exterior chamber and the interior chamber are designed as two tube elements that are inserted into one another.

Method for introducing fuel and/or thermal energy into a gas stream

In a fuel cell system having a fuel cell and a catalytic burner connected downstream thereof, an additional hydrogen-containing medium is fed to the catalytic burner.

Fuel cell system

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Stuttgart, Germany

Michael Schonert