FUEL BATTERY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable shortening of a startup time when a fuel battery system is manually started up.SOLUTION: A controller 50 of a fuel battery system 200 controls to start supply of hydrogen-contained gas from a hydrogen generation device 100 to a fuel battery 150 when the temperature of a CO reducer 11 increases to a first lower limit temperature or more at a normal startup time, and controls to start supply of hydrogen-contained gas from the hydrogen generation device 100 to the fuel battery 150 when the temperature of the CO reducer 11 increases to a second lower limit temperature or more at a manual startup time, the second lower limit temperature being lower than the first lower limit temperature. Accordingly, the temperature lower limit condition of the CO reducer 11 at the manual startup time under which supply of the hydrogen-contained gas can be started is lower than that at the normal startup time, so that the time from the start of the manual startup till the supply of the hydrogen-contained gas can be shortened as compared with a case where the temperature condition at the normal startup time is used.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1