CHEMICAL REACTOR AND FUEL BATTERY SYSTEM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately control a heating temperature in a flow passage and to make a utilization efficiency of energy better by reducing a loss of thermal energy in a chemical reactor in which the thermal energy is fed to a reaction catalyst layer provided in a fine flow passage formed on one surface of a silicon substrate.

SOLUTION: Both silicon substrates 11, 12 are adhered to each other. The reaction catalyst layer 15 is provided in the fine meandering flow passage 13 formed on one surface of a main silicon substrate 11 and the surface is covered with a main glass base plate 17. A burning catalyst layer 15 is provided in a fine meandering flow passage 14 formed on the other surface of a burning silicon substrate 12 is covered with a burning glass base plate 18. A thin film heater 23 is provided on an outer surface of a burning glass base plate 18. The burning gas fed into the flow passage 14 is burned on the burning catalyst layer 15 by a burning reaction and the inside of the flow passage 13 is heated by the thermal energy generated by this burning and the thermal energy caused by heat generation of the thin film heater 23. Diffusion of the thermal energy generated in the flow passage 14 by the burning reaction can be inhibited by the burning glass base plate 18 covering the flow passage 14.

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