Patent ID: 6432567
Filing Date: 2002-08-13
Classification: H01M,Y02E

Abstract:
A fuel cell stack with afterburning at a periphery of the stack, in the stack each cell including at least one entry point for air or another gas including oxygen, wherein the afterburning is provided inside a ring-shaped space about the fuel cell stack, wherein each entry point is connected as a totality via at least one air space that extends axially along the fuel cell stack, wherein each entry point is connected such that they are in communication, wherein the at least one air space stands in direct contact with the fuel cell stack, wherein each air space is separated from an afterburner chamber, wherein the afterburner chamber forms a space that communicates axially along the fuel cell stack by at least one wall, wherein the air or the gas containing oxygen is fed into the fuel cell stack via the ring-shaped space about the fuel cell stack, and wherein a plurality of passage-shaped afterburner chambers subdivides the ring-shaped space into substantially equally wide air spaces.