FUEL CELL SYSTEM

• Main Authors: OTSUKA, Toshiharu, OOE, Toshiharu, WATANABE, Naoki, SAKAMOTO, Taiichiro, FUJITA, Tatsuo, KAKUWA, Takashi
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 11.04.2018
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; ELECTRICITY; PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSIONOF CHEMICAL INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY

A fuel cell system includes: a reformer configured to reform raw fuel to generate reformed gas; a solid-oxide fuel cell configured to generate electric power by a reaction between the reformed gas and air; a fuel collecting portion provided adjacent to the solid-oxide fuel cell, the reformed gas remaining after the reaction of the solid-oxide fuel cell being collected at the fuel collecting portion; an air flow-through portion formed along an outer periphery of the fuel collecting portion; a combustor configured to mix the reformed gas discharged from a fuel jetting opening of the fuel collecting portion with the air flowing through the air flow-through portion, to combust the reformed gas and configured to mix the reformed gas discharged from a fuel jetting opening of the fuel collecting portion with the air flowing through the air flow-through portion, to combust the reformed gas; and a covering body provided so as to block flow of the air in a direction from the air flow-through portion toward the combustor along the reformer, wherein: the reformer reforms the raw fuel using combustion heat of the combustor; and the covering body supplies the air toward the fuel jetting opening of the fuel collecting portion.