Rheem Manufacturing Company

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Timothy Curtis Simmons, Jr

William Kevin Carpenter

Owen Lewis Joyce

Juan Carlos Montanez

Terence Sean Doyle

Robert Stuart Glass

Alexander Adam Papp

Anode assembly for a heat exchanger

A water heater can include a heat source and a heat exchanger that transfers heat to the water. A header attached to the heat exchanger provides an inlet and an outlet for water to flow into and out of the heat exchanger. The header can also include an anode assembly that releasably attaches to the header. The anode assembly can be located at a bottom of the header so that an anode in the anode assembly remains in contact with the water when water is flowing through the heat exchanger.

Integrated anode for a heat exchanger

A multi-source electrical drive system which includes an electrolysis cell for separating water into hydrogen and oxygen. The system further includes an oxygen storage device and a hydrogen storage device. The hydrogen, the oxygen storage device and the electrolysis cell are maintained at substantially the same elevated pressure. The system further includes a fuel cell system that includes a membrane electrode assembly, a base plate that includes a surface that is contactable with an electrode. The base plate includes a plurality of ribs that protrude from the surface that is contactable with an electrode. A bipolar plate with a surface that is contactable with an electrode and a plurality of ribs that project from the first surface and are spaced apart in a manner that allows the ribs on the first surface of the bipolar plate to nest between the ribs on the surface of the base plate is used, so that the ribs on the first surface of the bipolar plate rest between the ribs on the base plate in a spaced apart relationship to the ribs of the base plate, so that the membrane electrode assembly may be held between the base plate and the bipolar plate to define a first reactant chamber and a second reactant chamber between the base plate and the bipolar plate, the first reactant chamber being in fluid communication with the oxygen storage device, and the second reactant chamber being in fluid communication with the hydrogen storage device.

Multi-source electrical drive system

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Charlotte, NC, United States of America

Timothy Curtis Simmons, Jr