Nissan Motor Company Limited

Renault S.a.s.

Daniel Mair

Susumu Maeshima

Tomokatsu Himeno

Masahiro Usuda

Bernd Reiter

Vincent Lawlor

Robert Poeschl

A combustor, including: a catalyst bed portion supporting a catalyst capable of promoting a combustion reaction of fuel; a vaporizer which is arranged on the downstream side of the catalyst bed portion with respect to a flow of the fuel going through the catalyst bed portion and is configured to be able to use a combustion gas generated from the combustion reaction as a hot fluid; a manifold portion which is outside the catalyst bed portion and guides air in a direction opposite to the flow of the fuel going through the catalyst bed portion and has a wall portion on which a sidewall of the vaporizer is projected; and a fuel introducing portion configured to penetrate the wall portion of the manifold portion so that the fuel evaporated by the vaporizer can be introduced into the manifold portion.

Combustor and fuel cell system including same

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Lannach, Austria

Daniel Mair