Abstract
Miniaturization of reformer for a micro fuel cell system requires low flow loss and high reactive density of hydrogen generation and the carbon monoxide removal. We propose the designing method of reformer by optimizing its porous reaction layer and multiple branching flow channels. The method is based on the constructal theory proposed by A.Bejan. The optimization of the full cell reformer for a lightweight type Laptop PC shows that flow loss of 645.8 [Pa] and outlet CO concentration of 10 [ppm] were achieved for the total area of the reformer 4.6135×10^<-3> [m^2]. In addition, we have compared several reforming reaction system assuming chemical equilibrium theory.
