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| 20080286631 | Thermo-mechanical robust solid oxide fuel cell device assembly - A solid oxide fuel cell device assembly comprising: (i) at least one solid oxide fuel cell device including one electrolyte sheet sandwiched between at least one pair of electrodes; and (ii) a non-steel frame fixedly attached to said at least one fuel cell device without a seal located therebetween. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20090075802 | GLASS-CERAMIC SEALS FOR USE IN SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS - The invention is directed to highly crystalline, frit-sintered glass-ceramic materials and seals made using them that are suitable for solid oxide fuel cell applications. The seals have a coefficient of thermal expansion in the range of 70-130×10 | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090110993 | Segmented solid oxide fuel cell stack and methods for operation and use thereof - Disclosed is a segmented modular solid oxide fuel cell device having a plurality of independently controllable electrical power producing segments disposed within a common thermal environment. Also disclosed are methods for selectively operating one or more segments of the disclosed segmented modular solid oxide fuel cell device. Also disclosed are methods for performing a maintenance process on one or more segments of a segmented modular fuel cell device during fuel cell operation. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20110033779 | Insulation for SOFC Systems - The invention is directed to insulating compositions for use in solid oxide fuel cells. Such compositions can be used to prevent seal damage and increase the electrical and ion efficiency. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110113855 | Analyte Gas Sensors - Apparatuses and methods for determining the concentration of an analyte gas in a gas stream with a sensor are described. The analyte gas sensor may include a mass-sensitive resonator and a diffusion barrier. The mass-sensitive resonator may be coated with an absorptive material which is reactive with an analyte gas, such as NOx. The diffusion barrier may be positioned to limit a gas flow with the analyte gas towards the absorptive material, and a ratio of the diffusion time of the gas flow through the diffusion barrier to the reaction time of the analyte gas with the absorptive material may be from about 0.1 to about 100. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110117466 | Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Systems - According to one embodiment of the present invention a fuel cell system comprises: (i) a plurality of fuel cell packets, each packet comprising at least one fuel inlet, at least one fuel outlet, a frame, and two multi-cell fuel cell devices, the fuel cell devices situated such that an anode side of one fuel cell device faces an anode side of another fuel cell device, and the two fuel cell devices, in combination, at least partially form a fuel chamber connected to the fuel inlet and the fuel outlet; (ii) a plurality of heat exchange packets, each packet comprising at least one oxidant inlet, at least one oxidant outlet, and an internal oxidant chamber connected to the at least one oxidant inlet and the least one oxidant outlet; the heat exchange packets being parallel to and interspersed between the fuel cell packets, such that the heat exchange packets face the fuel cell packets and form, at least in part, a plurality of cathode reaction chambers between the heat exchange packets and the fuel cell packets; (iii) a housing supporting and enclosing the fuel packets and the heat exchange packets; (iv) an oxidant inlet plenum operatively connected to oxidant inlets of the heat exchange packets; (v) an oxidant exhaust plenum operatively connected to the cathode reaction chambers; (vi) an inlet fuel manifold connected to fuel inlets of the fuel cell packets; and (vii) an exhaust fuel manifold connected to the fuel outlets of the fuel cell packets. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110229794 | Composite Cathode for Use in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Devices - Disclosed are composite electrodes for use in a solid oxide fuel cell devices. The electrodes are comprised of a sintered mixture of lanthanum strontium ferrite phase and yttria stabilized zirconia phase. The lanthanum strontium ferrite phase has the general formula (La | 09-22-2011 |
| 20120003532 | PROTECTED METAL ANODE ARCHITECTURE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME - The invention provides a protected metal anode architecture comprising: a metal anode layer; and an organic protection film formed over and optionally in direct contact with the metal anode layer, wherein the metal anode layer comprises a metal selected from the group consisting of an alkaline metal and an alkaline earth metal, and the organic protection film comprises a reaction product of the metal and an electron donor compound. The invention further provides a method of forming a protected metal anode architecture. | 01-05-2012 |
