Patent ID: 6572993
Filing Date: 2003-06-03
Classification: H01M,Y02E

Abstract:
A fuel processing assembly system comprising:a reformer; a fuel cell coupled to said reformer, said fuel cell having an anode chamber, an electrolyte membrane, and a cathode chamber, said fuel cell capable of electrochemically oxidizing a first quantity of a reformer gas contained within said anode chamber during a normal load condition and capable of electrochemically oxidizing a second quantity of said reformer gas during a transient load condition; a combuster coupled to said fuel cell; a generator coupled to said fuel cell, said generator converting a first quantity of electrical charge generated by the oxidation of said first quantity of said reformer gas from said fuel cell to power during said normal load condition and converting a second quantity of electrical charge generated by the oxidation of said second quantity of said reformer gas to power during a transient load condition; and an energy storage device coupled with said fuel cell, said energy storage device capable of storing a third quantity of electrical charge generated by the oxidation of a third quantity of said reformer gas during said transient load condition, thereby maintaining the unoxidized amount of said reformer gas entering said combuster from said anode chamber during said normal load conditions or said transient load conditions at a nearly constant level.