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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2006
James Mcelroy, Suffield, CT (US);
Swaminathan Venkataraman, Cupertino, CA (US);
John Finn, Mountain View, CA (US);
M. Douglas Levan, Brentwood, TN (US);
Fred Mitlitsky, Livermore, CA (US);
James McElroy, Suffield, CT (US);
Swaminathan Venkataraman, Cupertino, CA (US);
John Finn, Mountain View, CA (US);
M. Douglas LeVan, Brentwood, TN (US);
Fred Mitlitsky, Livermore, CA (US);
BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of operating a fuel cell system includes providing a fuel inlet stream into a fuel cell stack, operating the fuel cell stack to generate electricity and a hydrogen containing fuel exhaust stream having a temperature above 200 C, lowering a temperature of the fuel exhaust stream to 200 C or less, separating the fuel exhaust stream into a first separated fuel exhaust stream and a second separated fuel exhaust stream, and recycling the first separated fuel exhaust stream into the fuel inlet stream.