公开(公告)号：US20240133593A1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-25

申请号：US18489369

申请日：2023-10-17

Applicant: Advent Technologies, LLC.

Inventor： Franklin Paul BARCINAS ,  Ian W. KAYE ,  Emory S. DE CASTRO

IPC: F25B11/04 ,  F01K27/02 ,  H01M8/04007 ,  H01M8/04029

CPC classification number: F25B11/04 ,  F01K27/02 ,  H01M8/04029 ,  H01M8/04059 ,  H01M8/04074 ,  F25B2400/141

Abstract: A cooling subsystem of a fuel cell assembly that employs the Rankine cycle to use the potential energy of a thermally pressurized fluid to generate electrical power. Waste heat from a fuel cell stack is transferred to working fluid in a heat exchanger. The working fluid in the condensed phase is pressurized, evaporated in a boiler or evaporator, and then fed to an expansion turbine which in turn provides rotary motion to an electric generator to generate useful electrical power. The fluid leaves the turbine as a lower pressured vapor, and is then condensed back to a fluid and pumped back to the evaporator to repeat the process.

公开(公告)号：US20240230169A9

公开(公告)日：2024-07-11

申请号：US18489369

申请日：2023-10-18

Applicant: Advent Technologies, LLC.

Inventor： Franklin Paul BARCINAS ,  Ian W. KAYE ,  Emory S. DE CASTRO

IPC: F25B11/04 ,  F01K27/02 ,  H01M8/04007 ,  H01M8/04029

CPC classification number: F25B11/04 ,  F01K27/02 ,  H01M8/04029 ,  H01M8/04059 ,  H01M8/04074 ,  F25B2400/141

Abstract: A cooling subsystem of a fuel cell assembly that employs the Rankine cycle to use the potential energy of a thermally pressurized fluid to generate electrical power. Waste heat from a fuel cell stack is transferred to working fluid in a heat exchanger. The working fluid in the condensed phase is pressurized, evaporated in a boiler or evaporator, and then fed to an expansion turbine which in turn provides rotary motion to an electric generator to generate useful electrical power. The fluid leaves the turbine as a lower pressured vapor, and is then condensed back to a fluid and pumped back to the evaporator to repeat the process.