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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 03, 2016
Applicants:

Bloom Energy Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Ohio State Innovation Foundation, Columbus, OH (US);

Inventors:

Michael Gasda, Mountain View, CA (US);

Arne Ballantine, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Chockkalingam Karuppaiah, Cupertino, CA (US);

W. S. Winston Ho, Columbus, OH (US);

Assignees:

BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

OHIO STATE INNOVATION FOUNDATION, Columbus, OH (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 8/06 (2016.01); H01M 8/04 (2016.01); H01M 8/0668 (2016.01); H01M 8/04492 (2016.01); H01M 8/04828 (2016.01); H01M 8/04089 (2016.01); H01M 8/04746 (2016.01); H01M 8/04302 (2016.01); H01M 8/04303 (2016.01); H01M 8/04791 (2016.01); H01M 8/04119 (2016.01); H01M 8/0662 (2016.01); H01M 8/04701 (2016.01); B01D 71/64 (2006.01); H01M 8/124 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 8/0668 (2013.01); H01M 8/04097 (2013.01); H01M 8/04126 (2013.01); H01M 8/04302 (2016.02); H01M 8/04303 (2016.02); H01M 8/04492 (2013.01); H01M 8/04738 (2013.01); H01M 8/04761 (2013.01); H01M 8/04776 (2013.01); H01M 8/04791 (2013.01); H01M 8/04828 (2013.01); H01M 8/04843 (2013.01); H01M 8/0687 (2013.01); B01D 71/64 (2013.01); B01D 2257/104 (2013.01); B01D 2257/504 (2013.01); H01M 2008/1293 (2013.01); Y02C 10/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method in which a high temperature fuel cell stack exhaust stream is recycled back into the fuel inlet stream of the high temperature fuel cell stack. The recycled stream may be sent to a carbon dioxide separator that separates carbon dioxide from the fuel exhaust stream. The carbon dioxide separator may include a carbon dioxide separation membrane, an oxygen blocking membrane, and a water blocking membrane.


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