Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to heating a startup battery within a battery system to rapidly initialize and start a fuel cell (FC). In one embodiment, a method includes triggering coolant flow using a startup battery that...

The present invention is a solid oxide fuel cell device (1), having a fuel cell module (2) furnished with a plurality of fuel cell units (16); fuel supply means (38) for supplying fuel; generating oxidant gas supply means (45) for supplying oxidant gas for...

It is possible to rapidly start a fuel cell and perform temperature increase operation and temperature decrease operation at start/stop without providing a separate purge gas supply system. The solid oxide type fuel cell includes a reformer (21) or the ref...