High temperature membrane (HTM) fuel-cell installation

摘要

A HTM fuel-cell installation has at least one HTM-fuel cell unit and at least one process gas supply- and removal-channel, in which at least one device is provided for pre-heating the process gas before the gas enters the inlet to the reaction chamber of a HTM-fuel cell unit. The pre-heating device specifically pre-heats the oxidant, and is operated to pre-heat at least one process gas independently of the operation of the HTM-fuel cell unit, and can thus be used to pre-heat the fuel-cell stack to the working temperature.