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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2018
Upstart Power, Inc., Southborough, MA (US);
Nathan Palumbo, West Boylston, MA (US);
Siddhant Singhal, Brighton, MA (US);
Matthew Otis, Allston, MA (US);
Tyler Samuel Cote, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Richard Flathers, Southborough, MA (US);
Paul Osenar, Boxborough, MA (US);
Upstart Power, Inc., Southborough, MA (US);
Abstract
A fuel reformer module () for initiating catalytic partial oxidation (CPOX) to reform a hydrocarbon fuel oxidant mixture () to output a syngas reformate () to solid oxide fuel cell stack (). A solid non-porous ceramic catalyzing body () includes a plurality of catalyst coated fuel passages (). A thermally conductive element (), with a coefficient of thermal conductivity of 50 W/m° K or greater is thermally conductively coupled with the catalyzing body. A first thermal sensor () is thermally conductively coupled with the thermally conductive element. A second thermal sensor is thermally conductively coupled with a surface of the fuel cell stack. A control method independently modulates an oxidant input flow rate, based on first thermal sensor signal values, a hydrocarbon fuel input flow rate, based on second thermal sensor signal values.