An evaporator (200) for a fuel cell includes a box (300) provided with an evaporating chamber (301) and a filling (503) formed of a plurality of evaporation promoting materials (500). Each of the evaporation promoting materials (500) formed with ceramics as base material is provided with spherical…
A fuel reforming apparatus (20) for reforming hydrocarbon-based fuel into hydrogen-rich fuel gas comprises a reforming reactor (30) for reforming the hydrocarbon-based fuel into a reformed gas containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide; a water gas shift reactor (34) for converting steam and carbon…
The present invention relates generally to an apparatus and method for accomplishing heat transfer and/or power conversion, or chemical process including conversions and separations. There is disclosed a microcomponent chemical process comprising: performing at least one chemical process unit…
A hydrogen generator comprises therein a reformer, a Shifter, a material flow passage with first evaporator through which a material is supplied to the reformer, a reformed gas flow passage for leading the reformed gas derived from the reformer to the Shifter, a shifted gas flow passage through…
A heat exchanger includes: a casing (21); an external cylinder (32) which is arranged inside the casing (21) with a clearance formed between the external cylinder (32) and an inner surface of the casing (21) and is supported in a cantilevered manner, has a closed end portion (32b), and forms a…
The present invention provides a hydrogen generator capable of preventing emission of CO and hydrogen, generating hydrogen in a clean and safe manner with high reforming efficiency and accelerating water vaporization immediately after the start-up to reduce the start-up time, the hydrogen generator…
A fuel cell power plant comprises a fuel reforming system (1). The fuel reforming system (1) comprises a vaporizer (7) which vaporizes liquid fuel and supplies fuel vapor to a reformer (9). The vaporizer (7) heats injected fuel so as to vaporize it by a heating elements, and supplies it to the…
A hydrogen generation system comprises a reformer 1 that contains a reforming catalyst, an evaporator 4 that supplies steam to the reformer 1, a heater 3 that heats the reformer 1 and the evaporator 4, a material feed portion 5 that feeds a feed material containing hydrocarbon compound to the…
A liquid hydrocarbon mixture is continuously supplied in metered quantities and completely vaporized to form a vaporized hydrocarbon mixture without decomposition. The vaporized mixture is contacted with at least one gaseous reactant to produce gaseous hydrocarbon reactant mixture which is reformed…
Microcomponent chemical process assembly wherein macroscale unit processes are performed by microscale components. The sheet architecture may be a single laminate (1) with a plurality of separate microcomponent sections (2) or the sheet architecture may be a plurality of laminates (31-36) with one…
A raw fuel vaporizing apparatus comprising: a vaporizer (12) for vaporizing liquid raw fuel; a raw fuel introducing device for introducing the liquid raw fuel into the vaporizer; a catalyst combustor (11) into which fuel and air are supplied for catalytic combustion, the catalyst combustor…
Provided is a catalyst for exothermic reaction such as combustion reaction or endothermic reaction such as steam reforming reaction and a method of producing the catalyst, a catalyst for water-gas-shift reaction or selective oxidization reaction of carbon monoxide and a method of producing the…
Combustion gas channels through which combustion gas (A) flowing in from a combustion gas inlet (17) passes are formed in first and second heat exchanger bodies (23) and (19) so as to be directed toward a combustion gas outlet (21) respectively. Liquid fuel (B) in which methanol and water have been…
Apparatus comprises several chambers (9, 10, 11) for carrying out solid body catalyzed reactions; and a common vaporizing unit (2) for vaporizing liquid educts (1). One region of the vaporizing unit is partially surrounded by the chambers. Preferred Features: The vaporizing unit is completely…
In a fuel cell system 10, a cracking unit 20 is provided upstream of a reformer 36. When the cracking unit 20 is supplied with oxygen and gasoline as a hydrocarbon-based fuel, the gasoline is partially oxidized and decomposed using oxidation-generated heat to give a hydrocarbon with a lower carbon…
Device for introducing educts into parallel separated chambers (3) comprises a distributor unit (2) having outlets (21) which protrude into the chambers. At each point in the distributor unit the boiling point of the medium lies above the temperature of the medium in the unit. Preferred Features…
Heat exchanger in layered design with multiple, fluidically parallel first layers (1a,1b...) that define first heat exchanger channels (5) through which a first medium can flow, and a respective second layer (2a,2b,...) between two first layers, wherein the respective second layer is in thermal…
The present invention is directed to a fuel reformer device that produces a hydrogen rich gas from a hydrocarbon and steam. The steam reforming reaction that produces the hydrogen rich gas from the hydrocarbon and steam is endothermic. A known technique supplies heat required for the steam…
A single-pipe cylinder type reformer produces a hydrogen-rich reformed gas by performing steam reforming for a reformation material gas such as town gas. A circular inner cylinder (3 or 68) is concentrically located inside an upright circular outer cylinder (1 or 10) forming the jacket of the…