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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2021
Bloom Energy Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Tad Armstrong, Burlingame, CA (US);
Harald Herchen, Los Altos, CA (US);
David Weingaertner, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rajan Surve, San Jose, CA (US);
Matthias Gottmann, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Prasad Pmsvvsv, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ranganathan Gurunathan, Bangalore, IN;
Arne Ballantine, Incline Village, NV (US);
Michael Gasda, Mountain View, CA (US);
Tyler Dawson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chockkalingam Karuppaiah, Fremont, CA (US);
BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A fuel cell system column includes a first terminal plate connected to a first electrical output of the column, a second terminal plate connected to a second electrical output of the column, at least one first fuel cell stack located in a middle portion of the column between the first terminal plate and the second terminal plate, and at least one electrical connection which is electrically connected to the middle portion of the column and which is configured to provide a more uniform fuel utilization across the first column.