Abstract:
A gas heating apparatus comprises a duct constructed by a heat insulating material having a heat resisting property, a plurality of honeycombs disposed across in the duct so as to oppose to a direction of a gas flow in the duct, the honeycombs being formed of a material having a heat resisting property, and a plurality of heat radiating members disposed inside the duct so as to oppose to the honeycombs, respectively, for radiating heat to the honeycombs. The gas entering the duct flows therein and is heated during the passing through the honeycombs. The honeycombs are constituted as partition walls.
Abstract:
This invention relates to an oxidative autothermal reformer (1) comprising a reforming layer (2) 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 (3) at least partially filled with an oxidation catalyst for generating heat by oxidizing a part of the reformed gas, in which the reforming layer (2) is disposed at an upstream side of the oxidative exothermic layer (3); the reforming layer (2) and the oxidative exothermic layer (3) are in the form of a cylinder and have a triple circular tube structure formed by disposing an inner reforming layer (2A), an oxidative exothermic layer (3) and an outer reforming layer (2B) from the inside in a radical direction in this order; and at least a part of the reforming catalyst filled in the inner reforming layer (2A) and the outer reforming layer (2B) contains Ru metal.
Abstract:
The system is a self-oxidation internal heating steam reforming system for conducting self-oxidation of a raw material gas under the presence of oxygen and conducting steam reforming to generate a hydrogen-rich reformed gas. The system includes a steam generator including a combustion section for combusting an air-fuel mixture obtained by mixing a combustion air with a fuel, thereby heating water using a combustion gas generated in the combustion section to generate hydrogen; a first sucking-mixer for sucking the raw material gas into a steam stream coming from the steam generator to obtain a raw material-steam mixture; and a reformer for oxidizing the raw material gas in the raw material-steam mixture by an oxygen-containing gas supplied from outside, thereby conducting steam reforming of the raw material gas using the reaction heat of the oxidation to generate a hydrogen-rich reformed gas.
Abstract:
A differential-pressure control device for fuel cell comprises three liquid tubs allowed to communicate with each other at their respective bottom portions through a sealing liquid having free surfaces, gas pipe means which connect the liquid tubs to gas outlets of the fuel cell respectively to introduce the gas flows from an anode, a cathode and a cell container of the fuel cell into the sealing liquid of the liquid tubs, each of the gas pipe means being formed with gas blow out section opened in the sealing liquid at the end portion thereof, the gas blow out sections having relative heights set at the value corresponding to predetermined differential pressure among the electrodes and the cell container, and gas conduit means for guiding the gas to the outside of the device from the gas chambers defined by the liquid tubs and the free surfaces of the sealing liquid respectively and located at the tops of the liquid tubs respectively. The differential-pressure control device has no mechanical movable part and makes it possible to always keep the differential pressure at a constant and, at the same time, to absorb the transient small variations in pressure of the electrodes.
Abstract:
A sun following-up device for a solar heat utilization apparatus which comprises a hollow cylindrical member, a fish eye lens unit on the top of said cylindrical member, a series of vertically spaced lenses positioned within said cylindrical member, a casing positioned on the bottom of said cylindrical member, a screen glass positioned within said casing for forming an image thereon, a pair of spaced diffusion glasses positioned on the undersurface of said screen glass to define a slit between the opposing faces thereof, a pair of photosensitive cells positioned on the undersurface of said diffusion glasses, optical fibers having one ends received in said slit leaving a clearance between the ends and a pair of photosensitive cells secured to said optical fibers.
Abstract:
A combustor is proposed which is compact and eliminates generation of NOx and unburned combustible and is capable of stable combustion.A combustor is accordingly provided which comprises a combustion section 11, a fuel supply section 12 coupled to the combustion section for supplying a fuel air mixture wherein the fuel supply section comprises a mixer of venturi tube type having a fuel supply port 25 on an inner peripheral surface of a throat part, a combustion air supply port 31 connected to a base end of the mixer of venturi tube type and an igniter made capable of generating a spark at an extremity of the mixer of venturi tube type and the combustion section comprises a frame 16 coupled to the boiler main body and a ceramic combustion tube 14 supported by the frame 16 via heat insulators 15a, 15b and 15c and having one end lying in communication with the extremity of the mixer of venturi tube type in the fuel supply section and the other end projecting into the boiler main body and wherein the ceramic combustion tube is made of a ceramic functioning as an oxidation catalyst.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an apparatus for the production of hydrogen by the reformation of a hydrocarbon or aliphatic alcohol having a hollow cylindrical frame; a columnar catalytic member having a multitude of axial passages, mounted in and supported by the cylindrical frame so as to be rotatable relative thereto by a drive unit; a lid body, closing an upper end of the cylindrical frame and making a space immediately above the columnar catalytic member; a partition wall for subdividing the space into a first and a second independent space; a gas inlet port formed in the lid body for introducing a mixture gas of hydrocarbon or aliphatic alcohol and water vapor into the first space; a hydrogen outlet port formed in the lid body for recovering hydrogen generated from the second space; and an oxygen inlet port for introducing oxygen into a region of the catalytic member, wherein the oxygen inlet port may make further use of the gas inlet port and/or be additionally provided for communication with a closed space at the bottom in the cylindrical frame.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a heating apparatus having an object to form a construction of high thermal efficiency so that a heat transfer area of a surface to be heated in a heating chamber may be made small so as to miniaturize the whole equipment, and to utilize the whole quantity of supplied oxygen effectually thereby to suppress generation of polution materials. The heating equipment has a combustion gas inflow port (19) and an exhaust gas outlet (14a) at the bottom portion and in the vicinity of an upper opening end, respectively, and is provided with a heating chamber (14) installed with a cover body (4) on the top portion thereof, a plurality of pipe bodies (11) which are supported by a can plate provided in the cover body (4) and hung vertically in the heating chamber, a plurality of buffle plates (16) which are penetrated with these pipe bodies and disposed so as to form a labyrinth ranging in upward and downward directions in the heating chamber, a main catalytic combustion equipment (18) connected to the combustion gas inflow port (19), a plurality sheets of partition plates (17) provided in the heating chamber so as to partition the labyrinth into a plurality of chambers in upward and downward directions and a plurality of auxiliary catalytic combustion equipments (21a, 21b) provided so as to connect both chambers on the down side and the up side of each of these partition plates.
Abstract:
A far-infrared radiating system comprises a far-infrared radiating element (2) such as a ceramic, adhered to a metallic material (1) and radiating far-infrared rays upon heating. The system is constructed of a primary-radiating element (5) which is made of a metallic material while heated by a combustion gas passing therethrough and a secondary-radiating element (3) provided with the far-infrared radiating element (2) adhered to the metallic material (1). The primary-radiating element (5) is spaced apart and oppositely disposed from the secondary-radiating element (3) which is heated by infrared rays radiated from the primary-radiating element (5) having been heated with a combustion gas passing therethrough, whereby the secondary-radiating element (3) radiates far-infrared rays.
Abstract:
In a far-infrared radiating system, a plurality of radiating units for allowing the combustion gas to pass therethrough are connected in series to form a multi-stage series-connecting construction. The combustion gas releases its heat energy in the form of far-infrared rays when passing through each of the radiating units. The combustion gas having passed through the radiating unit decreases in temperature, and recovers its previous high temperature through combustion of a fuel which is mixed with such combustion gas before the combustion gas enters the following-stage radiating unit. Such combustion is repeated in each of the following stages so that the heat produced by combustion of the fuel is effectively radiated in the form of the far-infrared rays without making waste.