Molten carbonate power generation system with plate reformer

A molten carbonate power generation system having:

• a molten carbonate fuel cell wherein a plurality of cell units are stacked up with separators between each unit and the separator defines anode and cathode chambers;
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• a plate reformer having plural units piled together with fuel introducing chambers sandwiched between the units, each unit including a pair of combustion chambers, a reforming chamber in between the combustion chambers, and heat transfer plates sandwiched between the reforming chamber and the combustion chambers, the fuel introducing chamber having a number of dispersion holes and being sandwiched between one combustion chamber of one unit and another combustion chamber of another unit;
• and the molten carbonate power generation system comprising:
• a plate reformer having:
• an inlet end and an outlet end of each reforming chamber, the inlet end for introduction of reforming material gas and the outlet end for emission of reformed gas;
• an inlet end and an outlet end of each combustion chamber, the inlet end for introduction of air and fuel and the outlet end for emission of combusted gas:
• a gas permeable partition wall provided in each reforming chamber for partitioning each said reforming chamber into a reforming reaction section having the inlet end of the reforming chamber and a heat exchange section having the outlet end of the reforming chamber, the reforming reaction section filled with reforming catalyst and the heat exchange section filled with a heat transfer component:
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• a gas permeable partition wall provided in each combustion chamber for partitioning each said combustion chamber into a combustion reaction section having the inlet end of the combustion chamber and a heat exchange section having the outlet end of the combustion chamber, the combustion reaction section filled with combustion catalyst and the heat exchange section filled with a heat transfer component,
• wherein the inlet end of each combustion chamber is aligned to the outlet end of each reforming chamber and the inlet end of each reforming chamber is aligned to the outlet end of each combustion chamber, and the partition walls of each reforming chamber and each combustion chamber are provided such that they are approximately lined up such that the reforming reaction section of each reforming chamber generally overlaps the heat exchange section of each combustion chamber, while the combustion reaction section of each combustion chamber generally overlaps the heat exchange section of each reforming chamber;
• material gas supplying means for supplying material gas to be reformed to the reforming reaction section of the reforming chamber;
• anode exhaust gas line for connecting the anode chamber of the fuel cell and the fuel introducing chamber and supplying anode exhaust gas to the fuel introducing chamber;
• cathode exhaust gas line for connecting the cathode chamber of the fuel cell and the combustion reaction section of the combustion chamber and supplying cathode exhaust gas to the combustion reaction section of the combustion chamber;
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• anode gas feed line for connecting the heat exchange section of the reforming chamber and the anode chamber of the fuel cell as well as supplying reformed gas to the anode chamber.