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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 19, 1999
Jean Joseph Botti, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Malcolm James Grieve, Fairport, NY (US);
Carl Elmer Miller, Millington, MI (US);
Delphi Technologies, Inc., Troy, MI (US);
Abstract
A power generation system providing an engine configured to produce hydrogen rich reformate to feed a solid oxide fuel cell includes an engine having an intake and an exhaust; an air supply in fluid communication with the engine intake; a fuel supply in fluid communication with the engine intake; at least one SOFC having an air intake in fluid communication with an air supply, a fuel intake in fluid communication with the of, engine exhaust, a SOFC effluent and an air effluent. Engines include a free piston gas generator with rich homogenous charge compression, a rich internal combustion engine cylinder system with an oxygen generator, and a rich inlet turbo-generator system with exhaust heat recover. Oxygen enrichment devices to enhance production of hydrogen rich engine exhaust include pressure swing absorption with oxygen selective materials, and oxygen separators such as an SOFC oxygen separator and a ceramic membrane oxygen separator.