Operating method of fuel cell system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9269973
APP PUB NO 20130149627A1
SERIAL NO

13818792

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Conventional fuel cell systems had the problem of impurity gases flowing back from a buffer tank and a reduction in the voltages of unit cells when the supply pressure of an anode gas is caused to pulsate at startup. An operating method include setting any one of the amplitude and cycle of the pulsation of the supply pressure of the anode gas to a fuel cell stack (FS) in accordance with the permeability of a nitrogen gas from a cathode side to an anode side. The method makes it possible to suppress unnecessary pulsation of the supply pressure of the anode gas at startup, and thus to maintain the concentration of a hydrogen gas in the fuel cell stack (FS) at an optimum level while preventing degradation in the mechanical strength of a membrane electrode structure that constitutes each unit cell (FC) of the fuel cell stack (FS).

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NISSAN MOTOR CO LTDYOKOHAMA-SHI KANAGAWA 221-0023

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Ikezoe, Keigo Ayase, JP 32 93
Nishimura, Hidetaka Yokosuka, JP 29 120
Sato, Masashi Yokohama, JP 143 648

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