Patent ID: 9005831
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: H01M,Y02E

Abstract:
1. An offset control arrangement for controlling voltage values of a fuel cell system for producing electricity with fuel cells, each fuel cell in the fuel cell system including an anode side, a cathode side and an electrolyte between the anode side and the cathode side, the offset control arrangement and fuel cell system comprising: at least one fuel cell array of at least two fuel cells, and at least one load for performing a load function; control circuitry for at least one offsetting source for monitoring input voltage of the load to obtain monitoring information; a control processor programmed to monitor the information; the at least one offsetting source in serial connection to the at least one fuel cell array; a power level of the at least one offsetting source being substantially low compared to a power level of the fuel cell array, the at least one offsetting source being arranged to perform at least unidirectional shifting of a fuel cell array output voltage to reduce a voltage window apparent to the load based on at least one of the monitoring information and the processed monitoring information; and disconnection means for disconnecting the at least one fuel cell array from the load, when a reason for disconnection is detected in the input voltage monitoring of the load by detecting that the input voltage rises out of a specified bound.