Patent ID: 9133553
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: C25B,H01M,Y02E

Abstract:
1. An electrolyser module comprising a plurality of structural plates each having a sidewall extending between opposite end faces with a half cell chamber opening and at least two degassing chamber openings extending through said structural plate between said opposite end faces; said structural plates being arranged in face-to-face juxtaposition in a longitudinal stacking direction between opposite end pressure plates, each said half cell chamber opening at least partially housing electrolytic half cell components comprising at least an electrode, a bipolar plate in electrical communication with said electrode, and a membrane communicating with said electrode for providing ionic conduction, said structural plates and half cell components defining an array of series connected electrolytic cells surmounted by at least one degassing chamber; said structural plates defining, at least when in face-to-face juxtaposition, passages for fluid flow inside said electrolyser module; said electrolyser module further comprising at least one external reinforcing means contacting at least one of said structural plates for mitigating outward displacement of said structural plates in a direction transverse to said longitudinal stacking direction; said at least one of said structural plates further defining contacting means for achieving contact with said at least one external reinforcing means.