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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 1988
Filed:
Mar. 20, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alexander H Levy, Bloomfield, CT (US);
Kenneth Lipman, West Hartford, CT (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C25B / ; H01M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
204129 ; 429 21 ; 429 23 ; 204D / ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed for operating a fuel cell 14 which produces electrical energy using hydrogen in combination with a chlorate electrolysis cell which uses electrical energy to produce a chlorate product and hydrogen. A regulator means employs a direct current converter 16 having a gated switch means, such as thyristor 98, to intermittently pass electrical power from the fuel cell to the chlorate electrolysis cell such that the voltage drop across the direct current converter is equal to the difference in voltage between the fuel cell and the electrolysis cell.