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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2003
Toru Nakamura, Moriguchi, JP;
Susumu Kobayashi, Nishinomiya, JP;
Hitoshi Kudo, Hirakata, JP;
Mikio Sei, Neyagawa, JP;
Yuichiro Yasuda, Hikone, JP;
Zhongmin Fei, Hirakata, JP;
Toru Nakamura, Moriguchi, JP;
Susumu Kobayashi, Nishinomiya, JP;
Hitoshi Kudo, Hirakata, JP;
Mikio Sei, Neyagawa, JP;
Yuichiro Yasuda, Hikone, JP;
Zhongmin Fei, Hirakata, JP;
Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd., Kadoma, JP;
Abstract
A reforming apparatus for producing a reformed gas from a fuel gas and steam, including a reformed gas-producing passage and a combustion gas passage, the reformed gas-producing passage having reforming catalyst, shift catalyst, and CO-selective oxidizing catalyst sections along a flowing direction of the reformed gas, the reformed gas-producing passage having a first passage adjacent to the combustion gas passage and including the reforming catalyst section and a second passage adjacent to the first passage, the second passage including a first heat-recovering section adjacent to the reforming catalyst section, and the first passage having a second heat-recovering section adjacent to one of the shift catalyst and CO-selective oxidizing catalyst sections, the first heat-recovering section located on an upstream side along the flow direction of the reformed gas relative to the reforming catalyst section.