Patent ID: 9515330
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: H01M,Y02E

Claim Text:
1. A fuel cell module comprising: a fuel cell stack for generating electricity by electrochemical reactions of a fuel gas and an oxygen-containing gas; a partial oxidation reformer for reforming a mixed gas of the oxygen-containing gas and a raw fuel chiefly containing hydrocarbon to produce the fuel gas, and supplying the fuel gas to the fuel cell stack; an exhaust gas combustor for combusting the fuel gas discharged from the fuel cell stack as a fuel exhaust gas and the oxygen-containing gas discharged from the fuel cell stack as an oxygen-containing exhaust gas to produce a combustion gas; and a heat exchanger for raising a temperature of the oxygen-containing gas by heat exchange with the combustion gas, and supplying the oxygen-containing gas to the fuel cell stack; wherein the heat exchanger is provided on one side of the fuel cell stack, and the partial oxidation reformer and the exhaust gas combustor are provided on the other side of the fuel cell stack; the partial oxidation reformer is provided around the exhaust gas combustor; the fuel cell module includes the oxygen-containing gas channel is branched into a first oxygen-containing pas supply channel for supplying the oxygen-containing gas to the heat exchanger and a second oxygen-containing gas supply channel for supplying the oxygen-containing gas to the partial oxidation reformer, an oxygen-containing gas regulator valve for regulating a distribution amount of the oxygen-containing gas is provided at a branch portion, the thermoelectric converter is provided downstream of the heat exchanger in the combustion gas channel, and upstream of the heat exchanger and the partial oxidation reformer in the oxygen-containing gas channel, the thermoelectric converter includes the combustion gas flows through the combustion gas channel in a direction from the first thermoelectric converter to the second thermoelectric converter.