Nissan Motor Company Limited

Avl List Gmbh

Renault S.a.s.

Vincent Lawlor

Bernd Reiter

Tatsuya Yaguchi

Michael Reissig

Jörg Mathé

Thomas Krauss

Shinichi Miyazaki

Hayato Chikugo

Takeshi Shiomi

Susumu Maeshima

Masanari Yanagisawa

Tadaki Mano

Tomokatsu Himeno

Tetsushi Noda

Masahiro Usuda

Julian Makinson

Susanne Mahler

Stefan Planitzer

Daniel Mair

Robert Poeschl

Jürgen Rechberger

Ralf Zeiringer

Sepp Steiner

Marlies Hofer

A combustor, including: a catalyst bed portion supporting a catalyst capable of promoting a combustion reaction of fuel; a vaporizer which is arranged on the downstream side of the catalyst bed portion with respect to a flow of the fuel going through the catalyst bed portion and is configured to be able to use a combustion gas generated from the combustion reaction as a hot fluid; a manifold portion which is outside the catalyst bed portion and guides air in a direction opposite to the flow of the fuel going through the catalyst bed portion and has a wall portion on which a sidewall of the vaporizer is projected; and a fuel introducing portion configured to penetrate the wall portion of the manifold portion so that the fuel evaporated by the vaporizer can be introduced into the manifold portion.

Combustor and fuel cell system including same

The present invention concerns a starting burner () for a fuel cell system (), having a catalyst () with a catalyst inlet () and a catalyst outlet (), a catalyst area () being formed between the catalyst inlet () and the catalyst outlet (), and the catalyst area () being surrounded by a catalyst wall () in a passage direction (D) from the catalyst inlet () to the catalyst outlet (), and an operating fluid guide section () for supplying an operating fluid (F) to the catalyst inlet (), wherein the operating fluid guide section () is arranged outside the catalyst () at least in sections along the catalyst wall (). The invention also concerns a fuel cell system () with the starting burner () and a method for heating a service fluid (F) in the fuel cell system ().

Starting burner for a fuel cell system

The invention relates to a fuel cell system () having a fuel supply unit () and fuel cells () having a cathode (') and an anode (&#x2032;), wherein the cathode (&#x2032;) features a cathode feed line (), the anode (&#x2032;) features an anode feed line (), and the flow in the anode (&#x2032;) is connected with the flow in the fuel supply unit () via the anode feed line (), in which a reforming apparatus () is arranged, and having an anode exhaust line () provided with at least one burner apparatus (). According to the invention, a first heat exchanger () is provided in the cathode feed line (), and a second heat exchanger (), which is arranged upstream of the reforming apparatus (), is provided in the anode feed line (), wherein the anode exhaust line () divides downstream of the burner apparatus () into a first anode exhaust subsidiary line () and a second anode exhaust subsidiary line (), each of which is connected to an exhaust gas outlet (), and wherein the first anode exhaust subsidiary line () leads through a warm side of the first heat exchanger (), and the second anode exhaust subsidiary line () leads through a warm side of the second heat exchanger (), and the vaporizing arrangement () is able to be heated via the second anode exhaust subsidiary line ().

Fuel cell system

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