Gas: heating and illuminating inventions 08/06

20060191198 - Hydrogen generating fuel cell cartridges: A gas-generating apparatus includes a cartridge including a reservoir having a first reactant and a reaction chamber, and a receiver that can include a flow control device. The receiver is adapted to receive the cartridge and to transport the first reactant to the reaction chamber after connection with the cartridge....

20060191199 - Hydrogen generating fuel cell cartridges: A gas-generating apparatus includes a reaction chamber having a first reactant, a reservoir having an optional second reactant, and a self-regulated flow control device. The self-regulated flow control device stops the flow of reactant from the reservoir to the reaction chamber when the pressure of the reaction chamber reaches a...

20060191200 - Hydrogen producing device and fuel cell system with the same: A hydrogen generator (10) comprises a first tubular wall element (11), a second tubular wall element (12) disposed outside the first tubular wall element (11) and coaxially with the first tubular wall element (11), and a water evaporator (13) and a reforming catalyst body (14) which are arranged in an...

20060191202 - Fuel reforming system: A fuel reforming system, comprising a reformer which generates reformate gas containing hydrogen, a carbon monoxide oxidizer containing a carbon monoxide oxidation catalyst which removes carbon monoxide contained in the reformate gas by a shift reaction and a preferential oxidation reaction, and supplies reformate gas from which the carbon monoxide...

20060191201 - Reactor for performing a steam reforming reaction and a process to prepare synthesis gas: A reactor vessel for performing a steam reforming reaction having a vessel inlet for natural gas and steam; a vessel inlet for a hot gaseous medium; a vessel outlet for the steam reforming product; and a reactor space which is a bed of steam reforming catalyst, which reactor space inlet...

20060185242 - Hydrogen gas generator: Disclosed is a self-regulating hydrogen gas generator for a hydrogen fuel cell. The self-regulating hydrogen gas generator includes a fuel tank, defining an inner space having a designated volume, provided with a hydrogen outlet communicating the inner space, a fuel solution, containing a hydrogen storing material, stored in the fuel...

20060185243 - Steam reformer: The steam reformer 1 has a double-cylinder structure having an inner cylinder 2 and an outer cylinder 3 surrounding the inner cylinder 2. The inner cylinder 2 contains a high-temperature reaction section 6 and an adjacent section 7 being adjacent to the high-temperature reaction section 6. The high-temperature reaction section...

20060185244 - Novel production method of gaseous fuels: A novel process of producing gas fuel is provided, in which low quality fuel such as coal and various kinds of plastics and resins (polymeric compounds) collected as flame retardant waste are decomposed to gas in supercritical water, so that the resultant gas is effectively utilized as fuel. That is,...

20060185245 - Pyrolysis process for producing fuel gas: Solid waste resource recovery in space is effected by pyrolysis processing, to produce light gases as the main products (CH4, H2, CO2, CO, H2O, NH3) and a reactive carbon-rich char as the main byproduct. Significant amounts of liquid products are formed under less severe pyrolysis conditions, and are cracked almost...

20060185246 - Integrated whole bale feed plasma pyrolysis gasification of lignocellulosic feed stock: A method for gasifying a wide variety of biomass into hydrogen and carbon monoxide (syngas) using plasma torch technology. Generally, biomass is converted into syngas by feeding biomass into a reaction chamber, directing the beam of a plasma torch across the face of the biomass in the chamber, and extracting...

20060179717 - Reformer and method of making the same: A reformer comprises a housing; a substrate disposed in the housing, wherein the substrate comprises a stabilized aluminate and a stabilized zirconate; and a catalyst disposed on the substrate....

20060179718 - Rapid start fuel reforming systems and techniques: An on-board fuel processor includes a microchannel steam reforming reactor (30) and a water vaporizer (40) heated in series with a combustion gas. The reformer (30) and the vaporizer (40) are both of a cross-flow panel configuration that allows for low combustion side pressure drop. Fuel is directly injected into...

20060168887 - Method for producing a fuel gas containing hydrogen for electrochemical cells and associated device: The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for producing hydrogen-containing fuel gases for fuel cells by catalytic reforming of hydrocarbons and subsequent gas purification. The process is characterized in that the catalytic reforming comprises two successive stages of which the first stage comprises autothermal reforming and the second...

20060168888 - Process for the preparation of a hydrogen-rich stream: A process for the preparation of a hydrogen-rich stream comprising contacting a process gas containing carbon monoxide and water, the process gas further including dimethyl ether or a dimethyl ether/methanol mixture in at least one shift step in the presence of an ether hydration catalyst selected from the group of...