1. A flow field plate assembly for use in a fuel cell, comprising:
a plate body having:
a reactant inlet at a first end of the plate body;
a reactant outlet at a second end of the plate body, the first end being opposite to the second end;
a non-porous region that defines a reactant flow path that extends between the reactant inlet and the reactant outlet; and
a first end turn and a second end turn, the first end turn being at the second end of the plate body and the second end turn being at the first end of the plate body, the first end turn being separated from the second end turn by the non-porous region, the first end turn and the second end turn each including a plurality of protrusions extending from the plate body and porous media adjacent to the plurality of protrusions within the reactant flow path.
2. The assembly according to claim 1, wherein the first end turn and the second end turn are each arranged transverse to an axis extending from the first end to the second end of the plate body.
3. The assembly according to claim 1, wherein the porous media has a porosity of at least 70% and an average pore diameter of at least 30 \u03bcm.
4. The assembly according to claim 1, wherein the porous media is carbon paper.
5. The assembly according to claim 1, wherein the porous media includes at least one slot arranged transverse to an axis extending from the first end to the second end of the plate body.
6. The assembly according to claim 1, wherein the plate body is metallic.
7. The assembly according to claim 1, further comprising an electrode assembly adjacent to the porous media.
8. The assembly according to claim 1, wherein:
approximately 50% of the first end turn includes the porous media and approximately 50% of the first end turn includes the protrusions but not the porous media; and
approximately 50% of the second end turn includes the porous media and approximately 50% of the second end turn includes the protrusions but not the porous media.
9. A flow field plate for use in a fuel cell, comprising:
a non-porous body that forms a reactant flow path extending from a reactant inlet at a first end of the non-porous body, through a first end turn at a second end of the non-porous body, through a second end turn at the first end of the non-porous body, to a reactant outlet at the second end of the non-porous body; and
a plurality of protrusions and a porous media provided in the reactant flow path within each of the first and the second end turns.
10. The flow field plate according to claim 9, wherein the porous media has a porosity of at least 70% and an average pore diameter of at least 30 \u03bcm.
11. The flow field plate according to claim 9, wherein the first end turn and the second end turn are each arranged transverse to an axis extending from the first end to the second end of the non-porous body.
12. The flow field plate according to claim 9, wherein the porous media is carbon paper.
13. The flow field plate according to claim 9, wherein the porous media includes at least one slot arranged transverse to an axis extending from the first end to the second end of the non-porous body.
14. The flow field plate according to claim 9, wherein the non-porous body is metallic.
15. The flow field plate according to claim 9, further comprising an electrode assembly adjacent to the porous media.
16. The flow field plate according to claim 9, wherein:
approximately 50% of the first end turn includes the porous media and approximately 50% of the first end turn includes the protrusions but not the porous media; and
approximately 50% of the second end turn includes the porous media and approximately 50% of the second end turn includes the protrusions but not the porous media.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A plant, a plant part, or a seed of soybean variety XB17G13, representative seed of said soybean variety XB17G13 having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-13427.
2. A soybean seed obtained by introducing a transgene into soybean variety XB17G13, and producing said seed comprising the transgene, wherein a plant grown from said seed has substantially all the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean variety XB17G13 when grown in the same environmental conditions.
3. The seed of claim 2, wherein the transgene confers a trait selected from the group consisting of male sterility, site-specific recombination, abiotic stress tolerance, altered phosphorus, altered antioxidants, altered fatty acids, altered essential amino acids, altered carbohydrates, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, and disease resistance.
4. A soybean plant, or a part thereof, produced by growing the seed of claim 1.
5. A soybean plant, or a part thereof, produced by growing the seed of claim 2.
6. A method for developing a second soybean plant comprising applying plant breeding techniques to a first soybean plant, or parts thereof, wherein said first soybean plant is the soybean plant of claim 1, and wherein application of said techniques results in development of said second soybean plant.
7. A method for producing soybean seed comprising crossing two soybean plants and harvesting the resultant soybean seed, wherein at least one soybean plant is the soybean plant of claim 1.
8. An F1 soybean seed produced by the method of claim 7.
9. A soybean plant, or a part thereof, produced by growing said seed of claim 8.
10. A method for developing a second soybean plant in a soybean plant breeding program comprising applying plant breeding techniques to a first soybean plant, or parts thereof, wherein said first soybean plant is the soybean plant of claim 9, and wherein application of said techniques results in development of said second soybean plant.
11. A method of producing a soybean plant comprising a locus conversion, the method comprising introducing a locus conversion into the plant of claim 1, wherein said locus conversion provides a trait selected from the group consisting of male sterility, site-specific recombination, abiotic stress tolerance, altered phosphorus, altered antioxidants, altered fatty acids, altered essential amino acids, altered carbohydrates, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, and disease resistance.
12. A herbicide resistant soybean plant produced by the method of claim 11, wherein the soybean plant has substantially all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean variety XB17G13 when grown in the same environmental conditions.
13. A disease resistant soybean plant produced by the method of claim 11, wherein the soybean plant has substantially all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean variety XB17G13 when grown in the same environmental conditions.
14. An insect resistant soybean plant produced by the method of claim 11, wherein the soybean plant has substantially all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean variety XB17G13 when grown in the same environmental conditions.
15. The soybean plant of claim 14, wherein the locus conversion comprises a transgene encoding a Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) endotoxin.
16. A soybean plant, or a part thereof, expressing all the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean variety XB17G13, representative seed of said soybean variety XB17G13 having been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-13427.
17. A method comprising isolating nucleic acids from a plant, a plant part, or a seed of soybean variety XB17G13, analyzing said nucleic acids to produce data, and recording the data for XB17G13.
18. The method of claim 17, wherein the data is recorded on a computer readable medium.
19. The method of claim 17, further comprising using the data for crossing, selection, or advancement decisions in a breeding program.
20. The method of claim 17, wherein the data are a nucleic acid sequence, a marker profile, a haplotype, or any combination thereof.