A series of cells for use in an electrochemical device, such as an electrochemical cell or battery, that can operate in a single bulk electrolyte solution shared among the cells. Methods of producing hydrogen or both hydrogen and electricity in appreciable quantifies and in various ratios, and vehicles or other devices and applications powered by electrochemical devices comprising the series.

Provided herein are anode assembly, conductive contact strips, electrochemical cells containing the anode assembly and the conductive contact strips, and methods to use and manufacture the same, where the anode assembly includes a plurality of V-shaped, U-shaped, or Z-shaped elements positioned outside the anode shell and in electrical contact with the anode.

A flexible electrical connector assembly is adapted to connect a bus bar of an electrolytic cell to a collector bar of the electrolytic cell. The assembly includes an electrical connector including a plurality of conductive metal sheets, the electrical connector having a collector bar end and a bus bar end. The electrical connector may be adapted for being joined, at the collector bar end, to the collector bar and, at the bus bar end, to the bus bar. The electrical connector may be adapted to implement a change in direction, at a bend along a current-carrying path between the bus bar end and the collector bar end, the bend assisting to define the change in direction as greater than 90 degrees.

The invention is a hydrolyser capable of operating with simple water, instead of using demineralized water with chemical additions of salts and other compounds. It can use both spring water and any other type of water, such as drinking water, sea water or grey or waste water. Gets separate outputs of hydrogen and oxygen. It is proposed a mechanical and circuit solution which allows ionic migration between anodes and cathodes, such that it does not require the addition of potash or other salts or other chemical systems suitable for improving the conductivity of the water in the hydrolysis cell. The system allows a very wide parallel surface interface between anode and cathode, despite the physical distance between anode and cathode and their clear separation. The total resistance of the water for each hydrolytic cell is very low, i.e. a high conductivity through the water, conductivity obtained through the artifice of the so-called ionic bridge.

A Solid Oxide Cell stack has an integrated interconnect, spacer and manifold, which is formed by bending a surplus part of the plate interconnect 180? to form a spacer part on top of the interconnect and connected to the interconnect at least by the bend and comprising overlapping primary and secondary gas inlet openings in adjacent layers in fluid connection.

A heat exchanger can be integrated into an interconnector that can be used in both a SOFC fuel cell and an EHT electrolyser, which allows a heat-transfer fluid different from that in the reactive and drainage gas circuits to be circulated from the inlet of the reactor, thereby allowing the best possible management of the exothermic operating modes of the SOFC cell and the exothermic or endothermic operating modes of the EHT electrolyser and the SOFC cell, especially in the absence of current for the latter.

A series of cells for use in an electrochemical device, such as an electrochemical cell or battery, that can operate in a single bulk electrolyte solution shared among the cells. Methods of producing hydrogen or both hydrogen and electricity in appreciable quantities and in various ratios, and vehicles or other devices and applications powered by electrochemical devices comprising the series.

An electrochemical cell has a first reaction chamber having a first electrode, a second reaction chamber having a second electrode, a membrane-electrode assembly having an ion-exchange membrane, and a photovoltaic system for absorbing solar energy and producing an output voltage between a first output terminal selectively couplable to the first electrode and a second output terminal selectively couplable to the second electrode. The ratio between a photosensitive area of the photovoltaic system and an active area of the first and second electrodes is less than or equal to fifty. A plurality of photovoltaic cells is selectively couplable between the first and second output terminals. An electronic control unit couples the photovoltaic cells as a function of at least one among one or more user-settable parameters, one or more signals received from an external control unit, one or more signals received from one or more sensors included in the electrochemical cell.

A method for producing an electrochemical cell unit for converting electrochemical energy into electrical energy as fuel cell unit and/or for converting electrical energy into electrochemical energy as electrolysis cell unit comprising stacked electrochemical cells, the method comprising the following steps: making available layered components (6, 9, 10) of the electrochemical cells, namely preferably proton-exchange membranes, anodes, cathodes, preferably membrane electrode arrangements (6), preferably gas diffusion layers (9) and bipolar plates (10), stacking the layered components (6, 9, 10) to form electrochemical cells and to form a stack of the electrochemical cell unit, the bipolar plates (10) being made available such that at least one suction opening (71) is formed in each of the bipolar plates (10) and components (6, 9, 10) of the electrochemical cells are brought by suction by means of a reduced pressure in the suction openings (71) during production, such that the components (6, 9, 10) brought to the suction openings (71) by suction are fixed to the bipolar plates (10) by means of the reduced pressure.

A system for conditioning a plurality of stacks of solid oxide cells of the SOEC/SOFC type, includes: a thermal enclosure delimiting an internal volume; a frame, positioned on either side of the thermal enclosure; a first crosspiece device, mounted on the frame in a movable manner relative thereto; a plurality of clamping rods, intended to contact the stacks to allow them to be clamped; a plurality of elastic return members fixed to a clamping rod and to the first crosspiece device such that each clamping rod is supported by an elastic return member capable of being compressed under the effect of the weight of the clamping rod.