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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2016
Upstart Power, Inc., Southborough, MA (US);
Nathan Palumbo, West Boylston, MA (US);
Joshua Persky, Berlin, MA (US);
Upstart Power, Inc., Southborough, MA (US);
Abstract
A solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) system includes inner and outer enclosure walls each formed as an independent thermally conductive path. Each thermally conductive path comprises materials having a coefficient of thermal conductivity of greater than 100 W/m° K. The inner and outer enclosure walls are each thermally conductively coupled with an annular enclosure formed to enclose a fuel reformer module. The annular enclosure provides a fourth thermally conductive path disposed between the inner and outer enclosure walls having a coefficient of thermal conductivity of 50 W/m° K or less. A temperature sensor and thermal fuse are mounted to an outside surface of the outer enclosure. An active sensor and a passive fuse are provided to interrupt a flow of fuel into the fuel reformer when a temperature of the outer enclosure walls equal or exceed a failsafe operating temperature.