Examples described herein provide for in-place refueling of reactant sources for submersible vehicles that utilize fuel cells. In one example, the vehicle includes a pressure hull that maintains a pressure boundary between an interior surface and an exterior surface, and includes a fuel cell. The vehicle includes a reactant source tank for the fuel cell that includes a fill port for transferring a reactant source to the reactant source tank. The vehicle includes a pressure hull penetrator that traverses from the exterior surface to the interior surface utilizing a passage through the pressure hull. The pressure hull penetrator maintains the pressure boundary between the exterior surface and the interior surface. The vehicle includes a fill tube coupled to the fill port of the reactant source tank that traverses through the pressure hull penetrator to the exterior surface, and an electrically non-conductive sleeve surrounding the fill tube.
PRESSURE HULL PENETRATOR FOR SUBMERSIBLE VEHICLES THAT UTILIZE FUEL CELLS
DRUCKRUMPFPENETRATOR FÜR UNTERWASSERFAHRZEUGE, DIE BRENNSTOFFZELLEN VERWENDEN
PÉNÉTRATEUR DE COQUE SOUS PRESSION POUR VÉHICULES SUBMERSIBLES QUI UTILISENT DES PILES À COMBUSTIBLE
2017-12-06
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B63G OFFENSIVE OR DEFENSIVE ARRANGEMENTS ON VESSELS , Angriffs- oder Verteidigungsanordnungen auf Schiffen / B63B Schiffe oder sonstige Wasserfahrzeuge , SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS / B63H Schiffsantrieb oder Steuerung der Schiffe , MARINE PROPULSION OR STEERING / H01M Verfahren oder Mittel, z.B. Batterien, für die direkte Umwandlung von chemischer in elektrische Energie , PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY |
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