Title:
FUEL REFORMER AND ITS STARTING METHOD
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3768137
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel reformer able to perform cold start in a short time without a particular equipment or utilities and to prevent poisoning a reforming catalyst and a fuel cell and easy to be compact for setting in car and its starting method.
SOLUTION: A combustion/reforming catalyst 15 consists of a plurality of catalytic layers 15a, 15b and 15c arranged in series at mutual intervals. Air preheated at a preheater is fed in parallel to each upstream side of the catalytic layers while stopping fuel gas supply at cold start and the whole catalyst temperature is simultaneously increased by self-generation of heat at the catalyst in each catalytic layer. After the whole catalyst temperature is increased to be able to perform combustion/reforming reaction, air supply is once stopped and then fuel gas supply is started and consequently air flow is controlled that the temperature in the catalyst does not exceed its heat-resisting temperature.
Inventors:
Hidetoshi Takimoto
Mizusawa Minoru
Yasuhiko Fukuchi
Yuki Otani
Mizusawa Minoru
Yasuhiko Fukuchi
Yuki Otani
Application Number:
JP2001310874A
Publication Date:
April 19, 2006
Filing Date:
October 09, 2001
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Honda motor industry stock company
Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.
Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.
International Classes:
C01B3/32; B01J8/04; B01J19/00; B60L11/18; C01B3/38; H01M8/04; H01M8/06; H01M8/10; B01B1/00; (IPC1-7): C01B3/32; C01B3/38; H01M8/04; H01M8/06; //H01M8/10
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Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Minoru Hotta
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