Energy Research Corporation

Fuel Cell Technologies, Ltd

Randolph M Bernard

Jeffrey Peter Allen

Lawrence M Paetsch

Prabhakar Singh

Ronald D Chamberlin

A novel fuel cell design is provided having a combustion chamber manifold internal to a fuel cell stack and interfacing one or more anode passage outlets and cathode passage inlets. The combustion chamber is equipped to combine a primary source of oxidant gas with an anode exhaust stream and to combust the mixture, if desired, for use as fuel within the cathode passage. The fuel cell design also provides an external gas manifold for directing carrier gas to the cathode passages upstream of the cathode passage inlets for combining with the combustion chamber exhaust prior to entry into the cathode passages.

Fuel cell with internal combustion chamber

A fuel cell system and method in which fuel exhaust gas from the anode compartment of a fuel cell is communicated by the anode compartment directly to the cathode compartment of the fuel cell, thereby causing burning of the fuel exhaust gas and oxidant gas delivered to the cathode compartment to generate CO.sub.2.

Carbonate fuel cell with direct recycle of anode exhaust to cathode

Migration and/or dissolution of Ni from the cathode of a molten carbonate fuel cell is retarded by the incorporation of a constituent adapted to effect such retardation.

Stabilized carbonate fuel cell cathode

A fuel cell system including a gas-diffusion electrode and a first passage means having at least one first section including a reforming catalyst and isolated in relation to the gas-diffusion electrode and at least one second section communicative in relation to the gas-diffusion electrode.

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New Preston, CT, United States of America

Randolph M Bernard