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Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 15, 2022
Applicant:

L'air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour L'etude ET L'exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude, Paris, FR;

Inventors:

Vincent Fairy, Houston, TX (US);

Anh Thao Thieu, Jouy-en-Josas, FR;

Samuel Trompezinski, Sassenage, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F17C 5/00 (2006.01); F17C 5/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F17C 5/007 (2013.01); F17C 5/04 (2013.01); F17C 2205/0326 (2013.01); F17C 2221/012 (2013.01); F17C 2223/0153 (2013.01); F17C 2227/0135 (2013.01); F17C 2227/0302 (2013.01); F17C 2227/0337 (2013.01); F17C 2250/03 (2013.01); F17C 2250/043 (2013.01); F17C 2250/0439 (2013.01); F17C 2250/0626 (2013.01); F17C 2250/0636 (2013.01); F17C 2265/03 (2013.01); F17C 2270/0184 (2013.01);
Abstract

Heat is transferred from a first portion of liquid hydrogen to a flow of a heat transfer fluid at a first heat exchanger through heat exchange with a heat transfer fluid to produce a flow of vaporized hydrogen and a warmed flow of heat transfer fluid. The flow of vaporized hydrogen is combined with a second portion of liquid hydrogen in amounts designed to produce a combined flow with a desired temperature, the combined flow being used to fill one or more buffer vessels. Heat is also transferred at a second heat exchanger from a stream of pressurized hydrogen from the at least one buffer vessel to the cooled flow of heat transfer fluid to produce a cooled flow of pressurized hydrogen that is used to fill tanks of fuel cell electric vehicles.


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