Plate type reformer
AssigneeIshikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.
InventorsMinoru Koga, Takenori Watanabe
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Abstract
Main units which includes a reforming reactor and a combustor, both piled together having a heat conductive, partition wall therebetween, are located in a manner such that the combustor sides thereof face each other, with an auxiliary unit for supplying fuel to each combustor being put between the main units. Raw material gas to be reformed is supplied to the reforming reactor through a passage formed in each unit, and then discharged through another passage formed in each unit. Fuel is supplied to the auxiliary unit through yet another passage formed in the main unit, so that it may flow uniformly dispersing in the combustor via the auxiliary unit.
Claims8
A plate type reformer, comprising:
- a plurality of main units, each main unit including a combustor filled with combustion catalyst and a reforming reactor filled with reforming catalyst with a heat conductive partition wall being sandwiched between the combustor and the reforming reactor;
- an auxiliary unit including:
- a fuel plate which has a vacant fuel chamber;
- and two porous plates sandwiching the fuel plate, the porous plates serving as fuel distribution plates for uniformly supplying he fuel into each combustor of each main unit, whereby the reforming reactors of the main units are equally heated, the combustors of the main units facing each other so as to sandwich the auxiliary unit between the combustion of the main units;
- an air passage for supplying air to said combustor;
- an exhaust passage for discharging gas burned in said combustor;
- a fuel gas passage for supplying fuel gas for reforming to the reforming reactor;
- a gas discharge passage for discharging the gas which is reformed;
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- a fuel passage for supplying the fuel to said fuel chamber,
- all the passages being formed within the main and auxiliary units.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.