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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2026
Filed:
May. 15, 2023
Airbus Operations Gmbh, Hamburg, DE;
Airbus Operations Sas, Toulouse, FR;
Janik Fernandez Garcia, Toulouse, FR;
Nikolaus Soukup, Hamburg, DE;
Airbus Operations GmbH, Hamburg, DE;
Airbus Operations SAS, Toulouse, FR;
Abstract
A fuel cell system comprises a fuel cell unit in a housing and comprising an anode part and a cathode part, a hydrogen source for supplying hydrogen to the fuel cell unit, an air supply unit for supplying air to the fuel cell unit, and a catalytic converter for catalytically converting oxygen and hydrogen to generate an inert gas mixture and supplying it to the interior of the housing. The catalytic converter comprises a cathode exhaust gas intake for receiving a cathode exhaust gas from the cathode part of the fuel cell unit. In a method for generating inert gas for a fuel cell system, a purge gas is supplied from the anode part of the fuel cell unit, and/or fresh hydrogen is supplied from a hydrogen supply unit of the fuel cell unit to the catalytic converter, to generate the inert gas mixture.