Ballard Power Systems Corporation

Utc Fuel Cells, LLC

Zebulon D Vance, Jr

Ned Emidio Cipollini

Roger R Lesieur

Douglas J Wheeler

Donald F Szydlowski

Leonard J Bonville

Gennady Resnick

Glenn Michael Allen

Jay Garow

An exemplary method of treating a material such as carbon or graphite to render at least some surfaces of the material hydrophilic includes coating at least a portion of the at least some surfaces with an oxygenated element and controlling a rate of a breakdown of the oxygenated element to leave a corresponding elemental oxide on the surfaces. In one example, the material is treated before being incorporated into an article comprising the material. Another example method includes treating an article comprising the material. Disclosed examples include precipitation or decomposition as the breakdown of the oxygenated element.

Method of treating a material to achieve sufficient hydrophilicity for making hydrophilic articles

The invention is a reformate fuel treatment system for a fuel cell power plant that includes at least one fuel cell for generating electricity from process oxidant and reducing fluid reactant streams; fuel processing components including a steam supply and a reformer for producing a hydrogen enriched reformate fuel for the fuel cell from a hydrocarbon fuel; and, an ammonia removal apparatus that treats the reformate fuel to make it appropriate for supplying hydrogen to an anode electrode of the fuel cell. The ammonia removal apparatus may be a disposable ammonia scrubber, an ammonia scrubbing cool water bed and an ammonia stripping warm water bed, a pair of first and second regenerable scrubbers, or a single regenerable ammonia scrubber.

Reformate fuel treatment system for a fuel cell power plant

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Plantsville, CT, United States of America

Zebulon D Vance, Jr