FUELL CELL SYSTEM WITH HEAT AND PROCESS WATER RECOVERY SYSTEM

摘要

An integrated fuel processing and fuel cell system (200) comprises a fuel processing device (2) for reforming a raw material fuel (3), having a reforming device (2) and a combustion unit (7) for generating the reaction heat for reforming the raw material fuel (3) and process water (42), an air intake from ambient (19) for oxidant supply to the combustion unit (7) and to a cathode (8) of a fuel cell device (24) for generating electricity through an electrochemical reaction between the reformed fuel and the oxidant supply. In an embodiment, four heat exchangers are provided in series and a common media (56) is circulated through the four heat exchangers to raise the temperature of the media (56) higher than the operational temperature of the fuel cell device (24).