| 摘要 |
PURPOSE:To reduce the energy loss while to improve the economy and to reduce the size of facility by considering that the fuel cell body is a heat producing reactor thereby utilizing the reaction heat to be produced from the fuel cell body as the heat source for endothermic reaction at the reformer section. CONSTITUTION:Fuel such as natural gas sucked into fuel gas supply tube 12 is fed into a reformer tube 10 constituting the reformer section 3 to be reformed into H2 rich gas through a catalyst 9 then fed to the fuel electrode 7 of fuel cell body 4. The reformer tube 10 is heated by main burner 15 located at the ceiling of container 2. While air is fed through an air supply tube 21 to the air electrode 6 of fuel cell body 4 to produce power through chemical reaction while simultaneously produce large amount of reaction heat at the fuel cell body 4. The reaction heat is transmitted to the reformer tube 10 arranged closely around the fuel cell body 4 to be utilized as the heat source for endothermic reaction or reforming. |
