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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2006
Yoshinori Yamazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Saburo Maruko, Tokyo, JP;
Shingo Komori, Tokyo, JP;
Japan Energy Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Nippon Chemical Plant Consultant Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An oxidative autothermal reformer including a reforming layer at least partially filled with a reforming catalyst for producing a reformed gas composed mainly of hydrogen through a reforming reaction by contacting a mixture of a hydrocarbon or an aliphatic alcohol and steam with the reforming catalyst; and an oxidative exothermic layer at least partially filled with an oxidation catalyst for generating heat by oxidizing a part of the reformed gas, in which the reforming layer is disposed at an upstream side of the oxidative exothermic layer; the reforming layer and the oxidative exothermic layer are in the form of a cylinder and have a triple circular tube structure formed by disposing an inner reforming layer, an oxidative exothermic layer and an outer reforming layer from the inside in a radial direction in this order; and at least a part of the reforming catalyst filled in the inner reforming layer and the outer reforming layer contains Ru metal.