| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve starting characteristics of a fuel reforming apparatus. <P>SOLUTION: The fuel reforming apparatus is equipped with: a vaporizing unit (50) which vaporizes source fuel to generate source fuel gas; a reforming unit (60) which reforms the source fuel gas with steam to produce hydrogen-rich fuel gas; and a CO reducing unit (70) which reduces the concentration of CO included in the fuel gas. The reforming unit (60) and the CO reducing unit (70) have containers (61, 71) to house individual catalysts, with the bottoms (61a, 71a) of the containers tilted from the horizontal plane and having drain holes (64, 74) in the bottoms (61a, 71a) to discharge the liquefied source fuel or condensed water remaining in the containers (61, 71), respectively. When the source fuel gas remaining in the reforming unit (60) or in the CO reducing unit (70) is liquefied in the apparatus during the system is stopped, it can be drained at the next time of starting the system, and this improves the starting property on starting the system. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI |
