Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fuel cell with improved thermal management
- Patent Title (中): 燃料电池具有改进的热管理
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Application No.: US14119143Application Date: 2012-05-24
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Publication No.: US09337500B2Publication Date: 2016-05-10
- Inventor: Delphine Drouhault , Pierre Nivelon
- Applicant: Delphine Drouhault , Pierre Nivelon
- Applicant Address: FR Paris
- Assignee: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
- Current Assignee: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
- Current Assignee Address: FR Paris
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: FR1154607 20110526
- International Application: PCT/EP2012/059755 WO 20120524
- International Announcement: WO2012/160162 WO 20121129
- Main IPC: H01M8/04
- IPC: H01M8/04 ; H01M8/24 ; H01M8/10

Abstract:
A fuel cell including at least two stacks of electrochemical cells, a heat management system including a circuit for flowing a coolant into each of the stacks fed in parallel, and an outside circuit for flowing the coolant outside the stacks. The outside circuit includes a first subcircuit including a heat exchanger and a second subcircuit directly connected to an inlet of the inside circuit, and controlling valves for controlling flow of the coolant toward either or both subcircuits as a function of temperature of the coolant at an output of each of the stacks. The second outside subcircuit includes a mechanism increasing its head loss such that it is close or equal to that of the first outside subcircuit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140106253A1 FUEL CELL WITH IMPROVED THERMAL MANAGEMENT Public/Granted day:2014-04-17
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