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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2018
Bloom Energy Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Aniket Pratap, Mumbai, IN;
Siddharth Patel, Jabalpur, IN;
Sumit Raj, Patna, IN;
Shraddesh Malviya, Mumbai, IN;
Mosur K. Premkumar, Mumbai, IN;
Arne Ballantine, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Martin Perry, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael Petrucha, Santa Clara, CA (US);
BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A fuel cell system and method of operating the same, the system including: a fuel cell stack and a reaction zone configured to receive a fuel/air mixture; an electromagnetic induction glow plug configured to heat the fuel/air mixture; and an alternating current (AC) generator configured to provide an AC voltage to the glow plug. The glow plug includes a housing extending outside of the hotbox, a heating element disposed in the housing, and a coil coiled around the housing, electrically connected to the AC generator, and configured to inductively heat the heating element.