摘要:
AN ELECTROLYTE MASS FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS PARTICULARLY FOR USE IN MULTIPLE CELL BATTERIES WHEREIN THE MASS INCLUDES AN INTEGRAL SEAL. THE ELECTROLYTE MASS IS THE MOLTEN CARBONATE ELECTROLYTE TYPE AND IS SUPPORTED BY AN INERT MATRIX OR FILLER MATERIAL. THE IMPROVEMENT COMPRISES A SUBSTANTIALLY RIGID AND SUBSTANTIALLY INERT LOAD SUPPORTING OUTER ELECTROLYTE PERIPHERY WHICH IS CAPABLE OF WITHSTANDING THE COMPRESSIVE FORCES NECESSARY TO HOLD EACH OF THE ELECTROLYTE MASSES IN PLACE IN A MULTIPLE CELL BATTERY; THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THE ELECTROLYTE MASS IS INTEGRALLY FORMED INTERIOR OF THE RIGID OUTER PERIPHERY AND IS THE ELECTROCHEMICALLY ACTIVE PORTION OF THE CELL.
摘要:
A cell stack for use in a battery or fuel cell using a liquid electrolyte. A plurality of individual frames made from electrically insulating material, each having a cavity extending transversely therethrough and separate elongated supply and return electrolyte passageways leading to and from the cavity. An electrode assembly is disposed in a recess provided in one surface of one of the frames and sandwiched between it and another frame. Each frame is bonded to the next adjacent frame to provide a complete seal surrounding the periphery of the cavity, each group of two adjacent electrode assemblies and three frames providing an electrochemical cell. The frames may be injectionmolded from polysulfone and solvent-bonded by a chlorinated hydrocarbon.
摘要:
An assembly of fuel cells or like source of electrical power having mounted on an outer surface of the fuel cell module interleaved sets of high and low thermal emissivity surfaces, with one set of surfaces being stationary and the other set of surfaces being movable. Means are provided for sensing the thermal condition of the fuel cell module and for moving one set of surfaces relative to the other set of surfaces to vary the thermal radiation from the fuel cell module and thus to control the temperature of the fuel cell module.
摘要:
A FUEL CELL ADAPTED FOR OPERATION WITH A REDUCING GAS AND AN OXIDIZING GAS AND A CIRCULATING LIQUID AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE CONSTRUCTED OF POROUS GAS-DIFFUSION POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ELECTRODES WITH THE MAJOR, GENERALLY PLANAR, SURFACES OF THE ELECTRODES OF OPPOSING POLARITY IN CONTACT WITH SUCH ELECTROLYTE AND SPACED APART AT A DISTANCE LESS THAN THE MAXIMUM THICKNESS OF THE IONIC DIFFUSION LAYER OF SUCH ELECTROLYTE, E.G. ABOUT 0.05 TO ABOUT 0.5 MM., WITH THE OXIDIZING AND REDUCING GASES BEING SUPPLIED TO THEIR RESPECTIVE ELECTRODES AT THE SURFACE THEREOF OPPOSITE
SUCH MAJOR SURFACE. SUCH A FUEL CELL IS OPERABLE AT A TEMPERATURE IN THE RANGE OF FROM AMBIENT TO ABOUT 70* C. AND AT GAS OVERPRESSURES LESS THAN ABOUT 1 KILOGRAM PER SQUARE CENTIMETER AND INSUFFICIENTLY GREATER THAN THE PRESSURE ON THE ELECTROLYTE TO CAUSE THE GASES TO PASS ENTIRELY THROUGH THE ELECTRODES WITH SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED POLARIZATION THAN IF THE SPACING BETWEEN THE ELECTRODES'' MAJOR SURFACES WAS GREATER THAN STATED.
摘要:
1,214,359. Fuel cell gas supply. ALLMANNA SVENSKA ELEKTRISKA A.B. 24 April, 1968 [25 April, 1967], No. 19288/68. Heading H1B. A fuel cell electrode forming at least part of a wall of a gas chamber through which an electrode active gas can pass from an inlet to an outlet is characterized by a porous wall situated across the chamber in the path of the gas, the wall covering no more than 25% of the electrode surface and effecting a gas pressure drop at least equal to half of the total gas pressure drop from inlet to outlet. The wall may be a sheet of fibres or sintered particles, situated midway between the inlet and outlet perpendicular to the direct flow of gas from one to the other. It may be made from a metal or thermoplastic, e.g. P.T.F.E. or poly(ethylene glycol terephthalate). If of metal, it may constitute an electrical connection. A fuel battery may comprise a plurality of such electrodes having a common inlet channel and a common outlet channel. The gas may be oxygen, air, ammonia or a mixture of nitrogen and hydrogen produced by cracking ammonia. In a particular embodiment (Figs. 1-3, not shown) a fuel cell battery comprises a stack of electrodes having circular frames which are thicker than the electrodes themselves so as to space them and provide alternate reactant and electrolyte chambers. The electrodes are of nickel activated with platinum and have a finer pored layer on the electrolyte side. The electrolyte is aq. KOH. The stack is held together by bolts, the joins between the frames being sealed by washers or by sticking them together. Eight bores for the supply and removal of fuel, oxident and electrolyte and for electrical connection pass through peripheral frames, all being open at the same end of the battery, the other end being closed by an end-plate which has no holes in it.