Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel cell system (100) having a fuel supply unit (8) and fuel cells (1, 2) having a cathode (4, 4?) and an anode (3, 3?), wherein the cathode (4, 4?) features a cathode feed line (40), the anode (3, 3?) features an anode feed line (30), and the flow in the anode (3, 3?) is connected with the flow in the fuel supply unit (8) via the anode feed line (30), in which a reforming apparatus (13) is arranged, and having an anode exhaust line (6) provided with at least one burner apparatus (22, 23).

Abstract: The present invention concerns a starting burner (100a; 100b) for a fuel cell system (1000a; 1000b), having a catalyst (10) with a catalyst inlet (11) and a catalyst outlet (12), a catalyst area (13) being formed between the catalyst inlet (11) and the catalyst outlet (12), and the catalyst area (13) being surrounded by a catalyst wall (14) in a passage direction (D) from the catalyst inlet (11) to the catalyst outlet (12), and an operating fluid guide section (20) for supplying an operating fluid (F1) to the catalyst inlet (11), wherein the operating fluid guide section (20) is arranged outside the catalyst (10) at least in sections along the catalyst wall (14). The invention also concerns a fuel cell system (1000) with the starting burner (100a; 100b) and a method for heating a service fluid (F1) in the fuel cell system (1000a; 1000b).

Abstract: a fuel cell system comprises a solid oxide fuel cell which generates a power by receiving a supply of an anode gas and a cathode gas, the system further comprising: a fuel tank to store a liquid fuel which is to become the anode gas, an anode gas supply path connecting the fuel tank and an anode electrode of the fuel cell, an exhaust gas burner to burn an anode off-gas and a cathode off-gas, both gases been discharged from the fuel cell, a collector which is communicated to the fuel tank and collects the fuel which is vaporized in the fuel tank, and a fuel supply path which connects the collector with the exhaust gas burner. When the fuel cell system is stopped, the fuel collected by the collector is supplied to the exhaust gas burner via the fuel supply path.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a plurality of fuel cells connected to each other in series, and a reformer configured to reform raw fuel, wherein reformed fuel by the reformer is supplied to a first stage of the plurality of fuel cells, and the fuel cell on the first stage is provided with a methane reaction suppressing function which suppresses reaction of methane included in the reformed fuel to a larger extent than at least one fuel cell on a second and later stages. Suppressing temperature drop due to endothermic reaction in the fuel cell on the first stage can improve the efficiency of electric power generation of the fuel cell system having the plurality of fuel cells arranged in series.

Abstract: A fuel cell system includes: a first fuel cell stack; and a second fuel cell stack with lower output voltage than the first fuel cell stack, a pre-switching stack configured by the first fuel cell stack or the second fuel cell stack, a step-up stack configured by the first fuel cell stack or the second fuel cell stack, a post-switching stack configured by at least the first fuel cell stack, and steps up voltage of the step-up stack with the pre-switching stack connected to the load and then switches to a connection state where the post-switching stack is connected to the load.

Abstract: In a fuel cell system, a preceding-stage fuel cell and a following-stage fuel cell are connected via a fuel flow path. The fuel cell system includes a reformer that supplies reformed gas to the preceding-stage fuel cell; an acquisition unit that acquires the amount of heat generation and the amount of heat absorption of the preceding-stage fuel cell; and a control unit that controls at least one of the amount of current of the preceding-stage fuel cell, the flow rate of air to be supplied to the reformer, and the temperature of the preceding-stage fuel cell if the amount of heat absorption acquired by the acquisition unit is larger than the amount of heat generation acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: A fuel cell system supplies a fuel and an oxidant and outputs a generated power from the fuel cell to a secondary battery. In a method for controlling the fuel cell system, a charged amount of the secondary battery is acquired, when the charged amount of the secondary battery becomes equal to or less than a prescribed value, the fuel cell is started up from a state that the fuel cell stops power generation, or the generated power of the fuel cell is increased. In the method for controlling, a remaining amount of the fuel which can be supplied to the fuel cell is acquired and when the remaining amount of the fuel becomes small, the prescribed value is set to a smaller value as compared with when the remaining amount of the fuel is large.

Abstract: A solid oxide fuel cell system includes a solid oxide fuel cell, a combustor disposed in a cathode gas supply line of the fuel cell, a fuel supply unit configured to supply a fuel to the combustor, and a cathode gas supply unit configured to supply a cathode gas to the cathode gas supply line. The system further includes a stop control unit configured to perform a stop control of the fuel cell, which includes a control that sets a cathode gas supply amount from the cathode gas supply unit to a predetermined amount and a control that supplies the fuel from the fuel supply unit in a supply amount corresponding to the cathode gas supply amount.

Abstract: A fuel cell system comprising: a fuel cell; a combustor configured to combust a fuel and an oxidizing gas to supply a combustion gas to a cathode inlet of the fuel cell; a combustion fuel supply device configured to supply a fuel to the combustor; a combustion oxidizing gas supply device configured to supply an oxidizing gas to the combustor; an anode-discharged-gas discharge passage configured to discharge an anode discharged gas from an anode outlet of the fuel cell; a cathode-discharged-gas discharge passage configured to discharge a cathode discharged gas from a cathode outlet of the fuel cell; and a controller configured to control a supply of the fuel to the combustor by the combustion fuel supply device and a supply of the oxidizing gas to the combustor by the combustion oxidizing gas supply device, wherein the controller includes a post-stop-request combustor-supply control unit configured to execute the supply of the fuel and the supply of the oxidizing gas to the combustor after a request for sto

Abstract: a fuel cell system comprises a solid oxide fuel cell which generates a power by receiving a supply of an anode gas and a cathode gas, the system further comprising: a fuel tank to store a liquid fuel which is to become the anode gas, an anode gas supply path connecting the fuel tank and an anode electrode of the fuel cell, an exhaust gas burner to burn an anode off-gas and a cathode off-gas, both gases been discharged from the fuel cell, a collector which is communicated to the fuel tank and collects the fuel which is vaporized in the fuel tank, and a fuel supply path which connects the collector with the exhaust gas burner. When the fuel cell system is stopped, the fuel collected by the collector is supplied to the exhaust gas burner via the fuel supply path.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having high discharge capacity and high charge/discharge efficiency. The aforementioned problem can be resolved by a carbonaceous material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery negative electrode, using a plant as a carbon source, where potassium element content is 0.10 wt. % or less, true density determined by a pycnometer method using butanol is from 1.35 to 1.50 g/cm3, lithium is electrochemically doped in the carbonaceous material, and in a case where an NMR spectrum of lithium nucleus is measured, a main resonance peak shifted 110 to 160 ppm to a lower magnetic field side is exhibited with regard to a resonance peak of LiCl as a reference substance.

Abstract: A solid oxide fuel cell system includes a primary fuel supply passage for supplying fuel, plural fuel cell stacks each uses a solid oxide fuel cell and that are provided in line on the primary fuel supply passage and includes at least a first fuel cell stack and a second fuel cell stack, a first reformer that is provided on an upstream side from the first fuel cell stack on the primary fuel supply passage and reforms the fuel by utilizing endothermic reforming reactions, a second reformer that is provided between the first fuel cell stack and the second fuel cell stack on the primary fuel supply passage and reforms the fuel by utilizing endothermic reforming reactions and exothermic methanation reactions, and a secondary fuel supply passage connected between the first fuel cell stack and the second reformer.

Abstract: In a fuel cell system, a preceding-stage fuel cell and a following-stage fuel cell are connected via a fuel flow path. The fuel cell system includes a reformer that supplies reformed gas to the preceding-stage fuel cell; an acquisition unit that acquires the amount of heat generation and the amount of heat absorption of the preceding-stage fuel cell; and a control unit that controls at least one of the amount of current of the preceding-stage fuel cell, the flow rate of air to be supplied to the reformer, and the temperature of the preceding-stage fuel cell if the amount of heat absorption acquired by the acquisition unit is larger than the amount of heat generation acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: A fuel cell system includes: a first fuel cell stack; and a second fuel cell stack with lower output voltage than the first fuel cell stack, a pre-switching stack configured by the first fuel cell stack or the second fuel cell stack, a step-up stack configured by the first fuel cell stack or the second fuel cell stack, a post-switching stack configured by at least the first fuel cell stack, and steps up voltage of the step-up stack with the pre-switching stack connected to the load and then switches to a connection state where the post-switching stack is connected to the load.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a plurality of fuel cells connected to each other in series, and a reformer configured to reform raw fuel, wherein reformed fuel by the reformer is supplied to a first stage of the plurality of fuel cells, and the fuel cell on the first stage is provided with a methane reaction suppressing function which suppresses reaction of methane included in the reformed fuel to a larger extent than at least one fuel cell on a second and later stages. Suppressing temperature drop due to endothermic reaction in the fuel cell on the first stage can improve the efficiency of electric power generation of the fuel cell system having the plurality of fuel cells arranged in series.

Abstract: An ignition device for an internal combustion engine (1) includes a superpose voltage generation circuit (47) that, after the initiation of a discharge with the application of a discharge voltage by a secondary coil, applies a superpose voltage between electrodes of an ignition plug (29) in the same direction as the discharge voltage to continue a discharge current, and performs a superposed discharge in a superposed discharge activation range of high exhaust recirculation rate. Upon shift from the superposed discharge activation range of high exhaust recirculation rate to a superposed discharge deactivation range of low exhaust recirculation rate, the deactivation of the superposed discharge is delayed by a delay time ?T. Although the exhaust gas recirculation rate becomes temporarily increased with decrease in intake air after the closing of an exhaust gas recirculation control valve, the superposed discharge is continued for the delay time ?T so as to avoid misfiring.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a production method for suppressing the deformation of a negative electrode in the production of a negative electrode for an all-solid-state battery using turbostratic carbon and a solid electrolyte. The problem described above can be solved by a production method for a negative electrode for an all-solid-state battery comprising the steps of: (1) coating a carbonaceous material having a true density of from 1.30 g/cm3 to 2.10 g/cm3 determined by a butanol method with a solid electrolyte; and (2) pressure-molding the solid electrolyte-coated carbonaceous material.

Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a first combustor, a second combustor, a first heating gas return channel, a second heating gas return channel and a gas supplier. The fuel cell includes a solid electrolyte cell with an anode and a cathode. The first combustor supplies a heating gas to the cathode. The second combustor supplies a heating gas to the anode. The first heating gas return channel is arranged to mix at least some exhaust gas discharged from the cathode with the heating gas from the first combustor. The second heating gas return channel is arranged to mix at least some exhaust gas discharged from the cathode with the heating gas from the second combustor. The gas supplier is connected to the first heating gas return channel for supplying the exhaust gas from the cathode to mix with the heating gas of the first combustor.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an all-solid battery having high energy density. The problem can be solved by a negative electrode for an all-solid battery comprising: a carbonaceous material having a true density of from 1.30 g/cm3 to 1.70 g/cm3 determined by a butanol method, a specific surface area of from 0.5 to 50.0 m2/g, an average particle size Dv50 of from 1 to 50 ?m, and a combustion peak T (° C.) according to differential thermal analysis and a butanol true density ?Bt (g/cm3) satisfying the following formula (1): 300?T?100×?Bt?570??(1) and a solid electrolyte.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a production method for suppressing the deformation of a negative electrode in the production of a negative electrode for an all-solid-state battery using turbostratic carbon and a solid electrolyte. The problem described above can be solved by a production method for a negative electrode for an all-solid-state battery comprising the steps of: (1) coating a carbonaceous material having a true density of from 1.30 g/cm3 to 2.10 g/cm3 determined by a butanol method with a solid electrolyte; and (2) pressure-molding the solid electrolyte-coated carbonaceous material.