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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2001
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Air for reforming used in the reformation reaction in a reformer of a fuel cell system FCS is supplied into an evaporator . In the evaporator , raw fuel liquid is evaporated to produce raw fuel gas. The reforming air and the raw fuel gas are well admixed within the evaporator and a conduit C connecting the evaporator to the reformer . At the starting of the fuel cell system FCS, a large amount of the air is introduced into the evaporator via an air inlet port B for starting. The fuel cell system having such a configuration can appropriately mix the fuel gas in the reformer with the reforming air and can rapidly operate the evaporator and the reformer at the time of starting without enlarging the total size of the fuel cell system.