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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2018
Filed:
May. 14, 2015
Xergy Inc, Georgetown, DE (US);
Bamdad Bahar, Georgetown, DE (US);
Brian Kienitz, Seaford, DE (US);
William Parmelee, Seaford, DE (US);
Xergy LTD, London, GB;
Abstract
An electrochemical compression system utilizes an electrolyzer to electrolyze an electrochemically active working fluid, at a first pressure, into decomposition products that are reformed back into said electrochemically active working fluid by a fuel cell, at a higher pressure. Water may be electrolyzed into hydrogen and oxygen and stored in reservoir tanks at an elevated pressure and subsequently provided to a fuel cell for reforming. The hydrogen is provided to the anode side of a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell and the oxygen is provided to the cathode side. Water is reformed on the cathode side of the fuel cell at a higher pressure than the inlet to the electrolyzer. This pressure differential enable flow of the electrochemically active working fluid through a conduit from the cathode to the electrolyzer. This flow of fluid may be used in a heat transfer system.