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Slab reformer

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5501739
Slab-shaped high efficiency catalytic reformer configurations particularly useful for generation of fuels to be used in fuel cell based generation systems. A plurality of structures forming a generally rectangular peripheral envelope are spaced about one another to form annular regions, an interior annular region containing a catalytic bed and being regeneratively heated on one side by a hot combustion gas and on the other side by the gaseous products of the reformation. An integrally mounted combustor is cooled by impingement of incoming oxidant.
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
Patent Number(s):
US 4504447
OSTI ID:
5501739
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English