STEAM REFORMING APPARATUS

• Main Author: NISHIDE TSUTOMU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 09.02.2017
• Subjects: CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION ORPROCESSING OF GOODS; COMPOUNDS THEREOF; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; INORGANIC CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY; NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; PRETREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS; PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINSTCLIMATE CHANGE; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS; TRANSPORTING; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a steam reforming apparatus that can efficiently produce hydrogen and recover valuable metals.SOLUTION: The steam reforming apparatus 10 of the present invention is a steam reforming apparatus 10 for producing a hydrogen-containing mixed gas by reforming hydrocarbon and in which characterized to include: a reaction furnace 12 that can be heated to a prescribed temperature; a feeding means 20 for feeding a hydrocarbon raw material, a metal-carrying brown coal as a catalyst, and steam into the heated atmosphere within the reaction furnace 12; and a recovery means 30 connected to the reaction furnace 12 for recovering valuable metals from supported metals contained in the catalyst discharged from the reaction furnace 12 and from heavy metals contained in hydrocarbon.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】効率的に水素を製造し有価金属を回収することができる水蒸気改質装置を提供することを目的としている。【解決手段】本発明の水蒸気改質装置１０は、炭化水素を改質して水素を含む混合ガスを製造する水蒸気改質装置１０において、所定温度に加熱可能な反応炉１２と、前記反応炉１２内の加熱雰囲気中に炭化水素原料と触媒としての金属担持褐炭と水蒸気を供給する供給手段２０と、前記反応炉１２に接続して当該反応炉１２から排出された触媒に含まれる担持金属と炭化水素に含まれる重金属から有価金属を回収する回収手段３０と、を備えたことを特徴とする。【選択図】図１