Patent ID: 8722260
Filing Date: 2014-05-13
Classification: B01D,H01M,Y02E

Abstract:
1. An integrated apparatus comprising: a gas-liquid separator that separates a gas and a liquid from a gas-liquid mixture fluid in which the gas and the liquid are mixed; a diluter disposed below the gas-liquid separator; and a communication pipe that communicates between the gas-liquid separator and the diluter, and that is disposed at a predetermined angle to a horizontal direction, and that introduces the liquid separated from the gas-liquid mixture fluid, into the diluter, wherein the gas-liquid separator, the diluter, and the communication pipe are integrally constructed; the gas-liquid separator has an upper component member that constitutes an upper portion of the gas-liquid separator; the diluter has a lower component member that constitutes a lower portion of the diluter; a shared member is positioned between the upper component member and the lower component member, the integrated apparatus is connected to a fuel cell stack; the gas-liquid mixture fluid is a fluid in which an anode off-gas discharged from the fuel cell stack, and water are mixed; the diluter has an extension chamber into which a portion of a cathode off-gas discharged from the fuel cell stack, the water, and a portion of the anode off-gas are introduced, and in which the introduced portion of the cathode off-gas and the introduced portion of the anode off-gas are mixed, and from which a mixed gas of the cathode off-gas and the anode off-gas, and the water are discharged, and a cathode off-gas channel that guides and discharges the cathode off-gas excluding the portion introduced into the extension chamber; and the extension chamber has flow passage control members that are disposed so as to control flow of the portion of the anode off-gas, at a position at an upstream side and a position at a downstream side in a flow passage direction of the cathode off-gas introduced in the extension chamber, wherein at least one of the flow passage control members is made up of a wall portion that extends downward from a lower surface of the shared member, and that has at least one slit.