摘要:
A hydrogen generator (4) includes: a reformer (5) which is supplied with a raw material to generate a hydrogen-containing gas through a reforming reaction; a first gas supplying unit (1) which supplies a gas containing a nitrogen-containing compound to the reformer; a CO remover (7) which has an oxidation catalyst containing a metal to be poisoned by ammonia and uses the oxidation catalyst and an oxidation gas to remove carbon monoxide in the hydrogen-containing gas through an oxidation; a second gas supplying unit (3) which supplies the oxidation gas to the CO remover; and a control unit (10), wherein the gas containing the nitrogen-containing compound is supplied from the first gas supplying unit to the reformer during the reforming reaction, a fuel cell system (100) includes the hydrogen generator (4), and the control unit is configured to control to carry out a regeneration operation of the oxidation catalyst if a parameter regarding a cumulative amount of ammonia supplied to the CO remover has reached a predetermined threshold or more.
摘要:
A fuel processing apparatus according to the present invention is a fuel processing apparatus 100 including a reformer 111, a raw material supply section 112, a moisture supply section 114, a heating section 116, a reforming temperature detection section 117 for detecting the temperature of a reforming catalyst, a shift converter 121, a shift temperature detection section 123, and a control section 200. When the apparatus is booted, the control section 200 activates the raw material supply section 111 to begin supplying a raw material to the reformer 111, and activates the heating section 116 to begin supplying heat to the reforming catalyst. Thereafter, when the reforming temperature detection section 117 detects a temperature equal to or greater than a reforming water supply reference temperature, the control section 200 operates the moisture supply section to supply moisture to the reformer 111, and while the reforming temperature detection section 117 detects a temperature equal to or greater than the reforming water supply reference temperature, determines an amount of moisture to be supplied to the reformer 111 and controls the moisture supply section 114, based on the temperature detected by the shift temperature detection section.
摘要:
In a hydrogen generator according to the invention, a reformer temperature sensor detects the temperature of a reformer at a start of a stop operation of a hydrogen generator. In a controller, a processing and controlling portion compares the detected temperature with first to fourth reference temperatures pre-stored in a storage portion, and determines which of the following conditions is the temperature condition of the hydrogen generator at the stop; a first condition in which water condensation occurs, a second condition in which water condensation and carbon deposition are avoidable, a third condition in which carbon deposition occurs, a fourth condition in which disproportionation reaction occurs, and a fifth condition in which oxidization of catalyst occurs. According to the determination result, an appropriate setting is selected among first to fifth replacement settings pre-stored in the controller corresponding to the first to fifth conditions, and an internal gas replacement operation is performed according to the selected setting.
摘要:
The present invention is a fuel cell system comprising: a hydrogen generator including a reformer which has a reforming catalyst and carries out a reforming reaction using the reforming catalyst to generate a hydrogen-containing gas from a raw material, a shift converter which has a shift catalyst and carries out a shift reaction using the shift catalyst to decrease carbon monoxide in the hydrogen-containing gas, and a first temperature detector which detects a temperature of the shift converter; a fuel cell which uses the hydrogen-containing gas delivered from the hydrogen generator, to generate electric power; and a control unit, wherein: the control unit does not start delivering the hydrogen-containing gas from the hydrogen generator to the fuel cell when at least the temperature of the shift converter detected by the first temperature detector is not a stable determination temperature or higher; and the stable determination temperature is lower than a control temperature of the shift converter at the time of a normal operation.
摘要:
A fuel cell system of the present invention comprises a reformer (1) configured to generate a hydrogen-rich gas, a shift converter (2) configured to generate hydrogen and carbon dioxide from carbon monoxide in the hydrogen-rich gas and water, a hydrogen generator (20) including a carbon monoxide removing portion (3) configured to reduce the carbon monoxide in the hydrogen-rich gas which has not been removed in said shift converter (2), a fuel cell (4) configured to generate power using the hydrogen-rich gas supplied from the hydrogen generator (20) and an oxidizing gas, an air supply portion (6, 9) configured to supply air to at least one of a position upstream of said reformer (1) and a position between said carbon monoxide removing portion (3) and said fuel cell (4) in a flow of the fuel gas; and an impurity removing means (12, 13) configured to remove an impurity gas from the air.
摘要:
A hydrogen generator (100) includes: a desulfurizer (4) having a desulfurizing agent which removes by adsorption a sulfur compound in a raw material; a reformer (1) having a reforming catalyst which generates a hydrogen-containing gas from the raw material; a combustor (5) which heats the reformer (1); and an ignitor (103) which ignites the raw material in the combustor (5), is configured to start combustion of the combustor (5) by using the raw material passed through the desulfurizer (4), and further includes: an upper limit changing device (8) which changes an upper limit of an ignition confirmation time of the ignitor (103); and a change instruction receiving device (101) which receives a signal related to an instruction of the change.
摘要:
The hydrogen generator includes: a reformer 101 having a reforming catalyst configured to cause a source material and water to react with each other to generate a hydrogen-rich reformed gas; a reformer heater 104 configured to heat the reformer; a carbon monoxide reducing portion 111,121 having a carbon monoxide reducing catalyst configured to reduce carbon monoxide contained in the reformed gas; a carbon monoxide reduction heater 112,123 configured to heat at least one of the carbon monoxide reducing portion, the carbon monoxide reducing catalyst and the reformed gas passing through the carbon monoxide reducing portion; and a controller 200 capable of control such that the carbon monoxide reduction heater is caused to operate in a stop operation period.
摘要:
A fuel processing apparatus includes a reformer, raw material supply section, moisture supply section, heating section, reforming temperature detection section, shift converter, shift temperature detection section, and control section. When the apparatus is booted, the control section activates the raw material supply section to begin supplying a raw material to the reformer, and activates the heating section to begin supplying heat to the reforming catalyst. Thereafter, when the reforming temperature detection section detects a temperature equal to or greater than a reforming water supply reference temperature, the control section operates the moisture supply section to supply moisture to the reformer, and while the reforming temperature detection section detects a temperature equal to or greater than the reforming water supply reference temperature, determines an amount of moisture to be supplied to the reformer and controls the moisture supply section, based on the temperature detected by the shift temperature detection section.
摘要:
A hydrogen generation apparatus 1 includes a raw material supply unit 4 for controlling a flow rate of a raw material to be supplied from an external element and containing hydrocarbon and an odorizing component; an odorizing component removing section 5 containing an adsorbing agent for adsorbing the odorizing component contained in the raw material; a combustor 2 for combusting the raw material; a reformer 30 for generating hydrogen-containing gas from the raw material which has passed the odorizing component removing section 5 by a reforming reaction using combustion heat supplied from the combustor 2; and a controller 16 for controlling the raw material supply unit to, during driving after the adsorbing agent or the odorizing component removing section 5 is exchanged or after the adsorbing agent is regenerated, makes the flow rate of the raw material to be supplied from the external element higher than the flow rate during the driving immediately before the exchange or regeneration.
摘要:
A hydrogen generator (100) includes: a desulfurizer (4) having a desulfurizing agent which removes by adsorption a sulfur compound in a raw material; a reformer (1) having a reforming catalyst which generates a hydrogen-containing gas from the raw material; a combustor (5) which heats the reformer (1); and an ignitor (103) which ignites the raw material in the combustor (5), is configured to start combustion of the combustor (5) by using the raw material passed through the desulfurizer (4), and further includes: an upper limit changing device (8) which changes an upper limit of an ignition confirmation time of the ignitor (103); and a change instruction receiving device (101) which receives a signal related to an instruction of the change.