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Apparatus and method for supplying fuel to a gas-generating system

US7022148B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Nucellsys GmbH · DE

Inventors

Wolfgang Lück · Erbach, DE
Martin Schäfer · Arnstadt, DE
Erik Theis · Kirchheim unter Teck, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 25, 2001
Grant date	Apr 4, 2006
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 17, 2023

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02E60/50
WIPO fieldChemical engineering
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

An apparatus for supplying fuel to a gas-generating system to generate hydrogen-rich gas in a fuel cell system includes two gas-generating components; a metering device, which can supply fuel by a valve-controlled distribution to each of the two gas-generating components; and a fuel storage basin. The fuel basin which supplies fuel to one of the gas-generating components during a changeover or connecting process between the gas-generating components.

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