D110 メタノール触媒燃焼を利用した燃料電池用改質器起動方法の開発

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Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell (PEFC) for an automobile needs short start-up time. Methanol reformer for the PEFC has to be heated up to the reforming temperature immediately in a start time. Our conventional reformer used electric heater and it took about 1 hour to set to produce H2 from methanol. In order to make the start-up time of the reformer shorter, catalytic combustion of methanol was investigated to heat up the reformer. The catalytic combustion was applied successfully to the methanol reformer, which was heated up to the reforming temperature within about 10 minutes.