HEATING DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a clean heating device capable of saving energy.

SOLUTION: This heating device is provided with a burner 2 for performing combustion using hydrocarbon as raw fuel and a fuel cell 5 capable of heating and raising temperature by its combustion heat to use a part of the raw fuel as fuel for power generation. It is preferable to use a solid oxide fuel cell as the fuel cell. This heating device 1 can exhaust exhaust heat of the fuel cell 5 as heat source for heating together with the combustion heat of the burner 2 and supply electric power generated by the fuel cell 5 to load in the device and load outside the device.

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