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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2016
Nantenergy, Inc., Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Cody A. Friesen, Fort McDowell, AZ (US);
Joel Hayes, Chandler, AZ (US);
Sergey Puzhaev, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Ramkumar Krishnan, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Todd Trimble, Phoenix, AZ (US);
NANTENERGY, INC., Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Abstract
An electrochemical cell system and a process for operating the same, the system having at least two fuel electrodes for receiving electrodeposited metal fuel; at least one oxidant electrode spaced apart from the fuel electrode; at least one charging electrode; an ionically conductive medium communicating the electrodes of the electrochemical cell system for conducting ions to support electrochemical reactions at the fuel, oxidant, and charging electrodes; and, one or more controllers configured to operate the cell system in discharging and charging modes and monitor a state of charge for each fuel electrode. The controllers may assign each fuel electrode in a discharging unit having a state-of-charge meeting a predetermined depletion criteria from the discharging unit to the charging unit, and each fuel electrode in the charging unit having a state-of-charge meeting a predetermined loading criteria from the charging unit to the discharging unit.