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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2014
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, München, DE;
Jochen Herold, Weismain, DE;
Martin Kautz, Erlangen, DE;
SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, München, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for operating a high-pressure electrolysis system (), wherein a hydrogen stream () and an oxygen stream () are produced in a high-pressure electrolyzer (), and these are passed out of the high-pressure electrolyzer () under high pressure. In order to increase the efficiency of the high-pressure electrolysis system () with respect to cooling of the hydrogen produced in the high-pressure electrolysis system (), the oxygen stream () is passed into a vortex tube () for decompression, in which the pressure energy of the oxygen is converted to refrigeration. This produces a cold oxygen stream () which is used to cool the hydrogen stream ().