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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2015
Filed:
May. 26, 2010
Toshiharu Ooe, Kitakyushu, JP;
Tsukasa Shigezumi, Kitakyushu, JP;
Katsuhisa Tsuchiya, Kitakyushu, JP;
Kiyotaka Nakano, Kitakyushu, JP;
Yoshiyuki Kawamura, Kitakyushu, JP;
Toshiharu Ooe, Kitakyushu, JP;
Tsukasa Shigezumi, Kitakyushu, JP;
Katsuhisa Tsuchiya, Kitakyushu, JP;
Kiyotaka Nakano, Kitakyushu, JP;
Yoshiyuki Kawamura, Kitakyushu, JP;
Toto Ltd., Fukuoka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention comprises a fuel cell assembly, a reformer, a fuel flow rate regulator unit for supplying fuel gas to the reformer, a reforming air supply device, a power generating air supply device, and a control unit for igniting fuel gas using an ignition device and conducting a combustion operation causing the fuel gas to combust using power generating air, then sequentially implementing a POX operation, ATR operation, and SR operation; whereby the control section starts the supply of fuel gas, reforming air, and power generating air, then controls the fuel gas supply device, the reforming air supply device, and the power generating air supply device to hold constant the respective supply flow rates of fuel gas, reforming air, and power generating air, without variation, in the combustion operating region in which fuel gas is ignited by the ignition device and combusted.