| 摘要 |
An electric motorcar, on which a fuel cell making use of hydrogen as a fuel gas is loaded, a hydrogen manufacturing and supplying apparatus for supplying the electric motorcar with hydrogen, and a hydrogen manufacturing and supplying method. When hydrogen is loaded on an electric motorcar as a fuel, it is difficult to safely and widely circulate hydrogen so as to make the same easily available. A hydrogen manufacturing and supplying apparatus of the invention makes hydrogen easily available by manufacturing hydrogen using as a stock material a commercial gas, for example, a city gas supplied to respective homes. When the hydrogen manufacturing apparatus of the invention is connected to a piping of the commercial gas for supplying of the commercial gas to the hydrogen manufacturing and supplying apparatus as a stock material, the stock material is subjected to reforming in the hydrogen manufacturing and supplying apparatus to generate a hydrogen rich gas, from which only hydrogen is then separated. Accordingly, it is possible to supply an electric motorcar with hydrogen generated from the commercial gas as a stock material by connecting the hydrogen manufacturing and supplying apparatus to the electric motorcar through a connector. In this manner, use of the hydrogen manufacturing and supplying apparatus of the invention enables loading hydrogen on an electric motorcar as a fuel gas without establishing any new circulation system. |
