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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2005
Swaminathan Venkataraman, Cupertino, CA (US);
William David Lyle, San Francisco, CA (US);
Martin Perry, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
William Whittenberger, Leavittsburg, OH (US);
Swaminathan Venkataraman, Cupertino, CA (US);
William David Lyle, San Francisco, CA (US);
Martin Perry, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
William Whittenberger, Leavittsburg, OH (US);
Bloom Energy Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack, a reformer which is thermally integrated with the fuel cell stack. The system may also include a combustor which is thermally integrated with the reformer. The reformer is a reformation catalyst containing channel bounded by at least one corrugated foil wall. The reformer is adapted to reform a hydrocarbon fuel to a hydrogen containing reaction product and to provide the reaction product to the fuel cell stack.