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A fuel cell system including a gas recycling and re-pressurizing assembly. In one embodiment, the fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack, the stack having an oxygen outlet and an oxygen inlet. The fuel cell system additionally includes two gas/water separator tanks, each of the tanks containing a quantity of water and a quantity of oxygen gas. Both tanks are capable of being fluidly connected to either the oxygen inlet or the oxygen outlet of the fuel cell stack. In addition, the two tanks are connected to one another so that water may be transferred back and forth between the two tanks. The system also includes a pump for transferring water back and forth between the tanks. In use, water is pumped from one of the tanks to the other until all of the oxygen gas present within the water-receiving tank is forced out of that tank and is conducted back to the oxygen inlet of the fuel cell stack. Once all of the oxygen gas has been forced out of the water-receiving tank, all of the water that had been present in the water-receiving tank is pumped from that tank to the other tank to expel all of the oxygen that is present in the second tank. As water is pumped out of a tank, the tank receives oxygen from the oxygen outlet of the fuel cell stack. Consequently, this process of moving water back and forth between the tanks to displace the oxygen gas present within the tanks is repeated indefinitely to recycle the oxygen back to the fuel cell stack.
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