US 12,451,503 B2
Sustainable energy delivery system, controller, and method
Robert R. Wingo, Pittsburgh, PA (US); William E. Jordan, Pittsburgh, PA (US); Toby Z Rice, Pittsburgh, PA (US); and Ryan Kanto, Pittsburgh, PA (US)
Assigned to EQT CORPORATION, Pittsburgh, PA (US)
Filed by EQT Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA (US)
Filed on Nov. 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/523,927.
Application 18/523,927 is a division of application No. 18/075,397, filed on Dec. 5, 2022, granted, now 11,843,143.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/285,713, filed on Dec. 3, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0097166 A1, Mar. 21, 2024
Int. Cl. H01M 8/04746 (2016.01); G05D 7/06 (2006.01); H01M 8/04082 (2016.01); H01M 8/04089 (2016.01); H01M 8/04992 (2016.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01)
CPC H01M 8/04753 (2013.01) [G05D 7/0623 (2013.01); H01M 8/04089 (2013.01); H01M 8/04201 (2013.01); H01M 8/04992 (2013.01); H01M 2250/10 (2013.01); H04W 88/02 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
 
1. A controller for a sustainable energy delivery system, the controller comprising:
a controllable valve having a first input from a first pipeline that carries hydrogen (H2), a second input from a second pipeline that carries a carbon-based fuel, and an output that provides a mixed fuel fluid to a delivery pipeline, the mixed fuel fluid being a mixture of the H2 and the carbon-based fuel; and
circuitry configured to produce a first valve control command based on inputs aggregated from a plurality of user terminals,
wherein
the controllable valve is configured to set an amount of the H2 provided to the delivery pipeline from the first pipeline in response to the first valve control command so a resultant percent of H2 in the mixed fuel fluid is less than a percent of the carbon-based fuel in the mixed fuel fluid, and
the circuitry is configured to send a second valve control command to the controllable valve to increase the amount of H2 provided to the delivery pipeline, the second valve control command based, at least in part, on a first request to increase the amount of H2 provided to the delivery pipeline, the first request being generated by a first user terminal associated with a first load, the first user terminal being one of the plurality of user terminals, the mixed fuel fluid being an input to a first mixed-gas fuel cell providing electricity to the first load.