A column includes a stack assembly including stacked electrochemical cells and interconnects, a ceramic frame surrounding the stack assembly, a first spring assembly located inside of the ceramic frame over the stack assembly and configured to apply a load...

Systems and methods for determining a site control architecture for controlling inverter(s) in a microgrid-based site are disclosed. The system includes a site controller, stamp controller(s), and inverter controller(s) communicatively coupled with each ot...

A power control device (691, 111) for an electrolyzer (200) that is configured to encode power curtailment information as a DC bus voltage level (550) using a DC droop characteristic in first stage and decode the DC bus voltage (550) to power information i...

An electrolyzer system and a fuel cell system that include hydrogen blowers configured to compress hydrogen streams generated by the systems. The electrolyzer system includes a steam generator configured to generate steam, a stack of solid oxide electrolyz...

A method of forming a protective coating on an interconnect for an electrochemical device stack includes providing a powder on the interconnect and laser sintering the powder.

A method of making an interconnect for a fuel cell stack includes compressing an interconnect powder to form an interconnect, the interconnect power containing Cr, Fe and at least one transition metal selected from Co, Cu, Mn, Ni, or V pre-alloyed with at ...

A method for operating a fuel cell system includes drawing a base level DC electric energy from a first fuel cell of a first type to a combined DC bus, measuring a DC voltage at the combined DC bus, determining whether the DC voltage at the combined DC bus...