US Patent Issued to BLOOM ENERGY on Jan. 20 for "Electrolyzer system including a heat pump and method of operating thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,153, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to BLOOM ENERGY Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Electrolyzer system including a heat pump and method of operating thereof" was invented by Ravi Prasher (Danville, Calif.), K.R. Sridhar (Los Gatos, Calif.), Michael Petrucha (Santa Clara, Calif.) and David Weingaertner (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrolyzer system includes stacks of electrolyzer cells configured receive steam and air, and output a hydrogen product stream and an oxygen exhaust stream, and a first heat pump configured to extract heat from the oxygen exhaust stream to generate a first portion of the steam provided...