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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2022
Bloom Energy Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
John Fisher, San Jose, CA (US);
Jayakumar Krishnadass, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David Weingaertner, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Laxmikant Girwalkar, Mumbai, IN;
Shraddesh Malviya, Mumbai, IN;
BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A fuel cell system and method for using a peak shaving gas, the system including: a fuel inlet configured to receive fuel from a fuel source; a catalytic partial oxidation (CPOx) reactor configured to at least partially oxidize the fuel during startup of the system; a blower configured to provide air to the CPOx reactor; a gas analyzer configured to determine a composition of fuel provided to the CPOx reactor from the fuel inlet; an oxidation catalyst configured to reduce an Ocontent of fuel received from the CPOx reactor; a reforming catalyst configured to partially reform fuel received from the oxidation catalyst; and a stack of fuel cells configured to generate electricity using fuel received from the reforming catalyst.