Patent ID: 11923576
Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one evacuation manifold, passing through the at least one stack of cells, communicates with the cells of all the groups, wherein the said fuel cell comprises an outlet arranged to permit an evacuation of fluids out of the said fuel cell, and a drain system comprising at least a drain channel, said drain channel being arranged between a supply manifold of a group of cells, so-called a last group of cells, communicating with a group of cells which is supplied by the at least one reactant, so-called a supplied group of cells, and wherein a fluid is evacuated through a said drain channel in at least a phase chosen between the first phase a) and the second phase b), the supplied group of cells corresponding to the first group of cells in the first phase and to the second group of cells in the second phase, the last group of cells corresponding to the second group of cells in the first phase and to the first group of cells in the second phase.