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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel cell cogeneration system which works with superior energy saving, high reliability and high safety when a required electric power and a required heating power are generated using a plurality of fuel cell electric power generation units. SOLUTION: The fuel cell cogeneration system includes the fuel cell electric power generation units 12, hot water storing tanks 14, and an absorption refrigerator 13. The installed plural fuel cell electric power generation units 12 generate the required electric power and the required heating power. The fuel cell cogeneration system has one or more hot water storing tanks 14, or the respective hot water storing tanks 14 for the respective fuel cell electric power generation units 12, that store a fluid exhausted from the fuel cell electric power generation units. One equipped absorption refrigerator 13 utilizes the fluid sent from the hot water storing tanks 14 as a heat source. A control unit 15 optimizes at least one of the safety, the reliability and the energy saving among the fuel cell electric power generation units 12, the hot water storing tanks 14 and the absorption refrigerator 13. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a power generation system having a natural energy power generation device and a fuel cell capable of suppressing buying electric power supplied from an electric power company and storing and releasing hydrogen by corresponding to a period of electric power demand to generate electricity from the fuel cell. SOLUTION: This power generation system is provided with the natural energy power generation device 32, a hydrogen generation device 38, the fuel cell 46, a hydrogen storage tank 48 storing hydrogen gas 42, and an optimum operation control controller 58 which supplies excess electric power to the hydrogen generation device 38 to generate hydrogen gas 42 and store it in the hydrogen storage tank 48 while supplying electric power to an electric power demand system 50 as an electric power grid from the natural energy generation device 32 during a period of small electric power demand and takes out hydrogen gas 42 from the hydrogen storage tank 48 to supply hydrogen gas 42 to the fuel cell 46 and supply electric power generated from the fuel cell 46 to the electric power demand system 50 as the electric power grid during a period of large electric power demand. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel cell power generation device for emergency capable of continuing operation to supply power to a load when there is no safety problem even when trouble occurs in the device; and to provide its management operation method. SOLUTION: This fuel cell power generation device for emergency is provided with a fuel cell power generation unit having a fuel cell 5 and hydrogen gas cylinders 7-1 and 7-2, and adapted to supply power to an important load 32 by detecting stop of supply of commercial power 30 when it occurs to manually or automatically start the fuel cell 5. The fuel cell power generation device is equipped with a management control means for determining trouble needing to immediately stop the device due to a safety reason from trouble allowing the operation of the device as it is without any safety problem in accordance with a trouble content by forming a trouble content detection means for detecting the content of trouble when the trouble occurs in the device during operation of the device or in a waiting time and a trouble content notification means for notifying to the outside, and thereby for carrying out stop of the device based on the determination result, continuation of the operation or continuation of a waiting state. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a highly efficient natural energy power generation device having excellent harmony property with environment and provide a self- completion type power generation system having a fuel cell. SOLUTION: This self-completion type power generation system is provided with the natural energy power generation device 30, a hydrogen generation device 40 for supplying a direct current voltage from the natural energy power generation device 30 to generate hydrogen gas 38 by electrolysis, and the fuel cell 21 for generating electricity by electrochemical reaction of oxidizer gas 42 with hydrogen gas 38 supplied from the hydrogen generation device 40 to supply a direct current voltage to an electric power load system 36. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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PURPOSE: To enable energy-saving and electric power-saving by using boil-off gas of LNG to cool gas turbine inlet air. CONSTITUTION: A cooling means is provided to cool air to be supplied to an air inlet of an air compressor 8 of a gas turbine 7 having the air compressor 8, a combustor 9 and a turbine 10. Then, the cooling means is an absorption refrigerating machine 16 which has a high temperature regenerator 27, a condenser-low temperature regenerator 26 and an evaporator-absorber 28 and uses boil-off gas as a driving heat source.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an operation method of an emergency fuel cell power generator for a traffic management system capable of operating the traffic management system as long as possible with a predetermined amount of fuel even when a power failure of commercial power supply continues for a long time. SOLUTION: The emergency fuel cell power generator 1 for the traffic management system supplies electric power to the traffic management system 6, which is provided with a vehicle signal, a pedestrian signal, and a traffic instruction sign and operated by commercial power supply, instead of the commercial power supply. In this operation method for the emergency fuel cell power generator 1 for the traffic management system, the traffic management system 6 is operated in a power saving mode operated with power consumption less than that in an ordinary operation when an operation time of the fuel cell power generator 1 becomes a predetermined time or more or when a residual fuel amount of the fuel cell becomes a predetermined amount or less if the fuel cell power generator 1 is operated during a power failure of the commercial power supply. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an emergency fuel-cell power-generation apparatus and a management method therefor that can quickly start a fuel cell to generate power and supply the power to a load upon a supply stop of commercial power while keeping an internal temperature within temperature requirements for various devices constituting the apparatus even if the apparatus is installed in any outdoor environment. SOLUTION: The emergency fuel-cell power-generation apparatus, which has in a housing body 1 a fuel cell chamber 3 equipped with the fuel cell 5 and a hydrogen gas cylinder chamber 4 equipped with a hydrogen gas cylinder 7 containing hydrogen gas as fuel for the fuel cell 5, and which detects a stop of commercial power supply and supplies power generated by the fuel cell 5 started manually or automatically to an important load, has thermal insulation plates 9 for intercepting solar radiation at a predetermined clearance against wall surfaces of the housing body 1, and has a control means for starting a fuel cell chamber ventilation fan 8 for ventilating the fuel cell chamber 3 when the temperature of the fuel cell chamber 3 reaches a predetermined temperature. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel cell cogeneration system which can satisfy a refrigeration load when there is no electric power load but there is the refrigeration load, and which can satisfy an electric power load when there is no refrigeration load but there is the electric power load. SOLUTION: The fuel cell cogeneration system comprises a fuel cell power generation unit 12 which exhausts a fluid w1 warmed by heat produced during an electrochemical reaction process of a fuel gas g1 and an oxidant gas k, a hot water tank 14 which stores the fluid w1, an absorption refrigerator 13 which uses the fluid sent from the hot water tank as a heat source; a heat quantity measurement unit 40 which measures the heat quantity of the fluid in the hot water tank, and a control unit 15 which performs a first control so as to maintain the operation of the fuel cell power generation unit when the measured heat quantity is less than a first specified value where the fluid stored in the hot water tank is sent to the fuel cell power generation unit. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel cell power generation device for emergency capable of evading such a dangerous situation that power is not supplied to an important load, and an operation method of the same. SOLUTION: The fuel cell power generation device has a control part commanding start/stop of the fuel cell, and an abnormality detection means detecting various kinds of abnormalities. When the control part receives abnormality detection signals from the abnormality detection means, a start denying command is issued and the fuel cell is turned into a start-prohibited state while the fuel cell is stopped, and when the fuel cell is to start, or during operation, a start denying command is issued after stopping the fuel cell, by issuing a power generation stopping command and the fuel cell is turned into a start-prohibited state. After the fuel cell is turned into a start-prohibited state, in case the control part receives the abnormality detection signal again from the abnormality detection means after an elapse of a second prescribed period, after the control part resets the abnormality detection means after an elapse of a first prescribed period, the start-prohibited state is continued. In case the control part does not receive the abnormality detection signal, the start-prohibition state of the fuel cell is reset. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel cell power generating system and its generating method with a methane generating device and a hydrogen generating device mounted in a fuel cell, and capable of greatly reducing gas contaminating the environment. SOLUTION: The fuel cell power generating system, generating power by electrochemical reaction between hydrogen fuel and an oxidant, is provided with a hydrogen generating part 12 generating hydrogen gas from wastes 10, a methane generating part 14 generating methane gas from the wastes 10, a fuel processing device 34 obtaining hydrogen gas by reforming the methane gas generated at the methane generating part 14, a fuel cell part 38 supplying the hydrogen gas from the hydrogen generating part 12 to generate power by the electrochemical reaction with the oxidant 24, a hydrogen fuel supply part 54 supplying the hydrogen gas obtained from the fuel processing device 34 to the fuel cell part 38, and an exhaust heat supply line 42 supplying exhaust heat from the fuel cell part 38 to the hydrogen generating part 12 and the methane generating part 14. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI