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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2014
Fuelcell Energy, Inc., Danbury, CT (US);
Matthew Lambrech, Sherman, CT (US);
Mohammad Farooque, Danbury, CT (US);
Carla Juhas, Bethlehem, CT (US);
Fred C. Jahnke, Rye, NY (US);
Ramakrishnan Venkataraman, Danbury, CT (US);
Michael L. Quatannens, Chappaqua, NY (US);
FUELCELL ENERGY, INC., Danbury, CT (US);
Abstract
A high efficiency fuel cell system comprising a topping fuel cell assembly comprising a topping cathode portion and a topping anode portion; and a bottoming fuel cell assembly comprising a bottoming cathode portion and a bottoming anode portion, wherein the bottoming anode portion receives anode exhaust output from the topping anode portion and the topping cathode portion receives cathode exhaust from the bottoming cathode portion, and wherein the topping fuel cell assembly has a greater number of fuel cells than the bottoming fuel cell assembly so that the topping fuel cell assembly utilizes more fuel than the bottoming fuel cell assembly.