Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Eiji Iseki

Yasunori Kotani

Hikaru Okada

Hideaki Sumi

Takahiro Tachihara

Takeshi Yamagami

Kouji Ueda

Kazuhito Matsuda

Shoji Isove

A reformer comprises first and second reforming catalyst layers arranged in a reforming chamber, and a supply mechanism for supplying reformable fuel gas, steam, and oxygen to the reforming chamber to simultaneously perform an oxidation reaction and a reforming reaction in the first and second reforming catalyst layers. Each of the first and second reforming catalyst layers is designed to have a hollow plate-shaped configuration with its surface direction perpendicular to a gas flow direction in the reforming chamber. Accordingly, a compact fuel-reforming apparatus having a good thermal efficiency is obtained, in which the start-up operation is smoothly effected.

Fuel-reforming apparatus comprising a plate-shaped reforming catalyst

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Utsunomiya, Japan

Eiji Iseki