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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2007
Applicants:
Toshiyuki Nakamura, Nagoya, JP;
Nobuhiko Mori, Nagoya, JP;
Inventors:
Toshiyuki Nakamura, Nagoya, JP;
Nobuhiko Mori, Nagoya, JP;
Assignee:
NGK Insulators, Ltd., Nagoya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C01B 3/22 (2006.01); B01D 53/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A permselective membrane reactor is provided, including a reactor tube having a gas inlet at one end and a gas outlet at the other end thereof. A separator tube is disposed in the reactor tube and has a permselective membrane selectively permeable to hydrogen on a surface thereof and a discharge outlet for passing separated gas through the permselective membrane. The permselective membrane reactor also includes a layer comprising a reforming catalyst that promotes reforming of ethanol, so that β, defined by the following equation, is in a range of 0.05 to 20:β=a/b