Patent · US Expired

Reforming reactor, particularly for the water vapor reforming of methanol

US5935277A · kind A · utility

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10Claims

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Assignee

Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

Rainer Autenrieth
Dietmar Heil · Deggenhausertal, DE
Wolfgang Weger · Biberach an der Riß, DE
Uwe Benz · Giengen an der Brenz, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 16, 1997
Grant date	Aug 10, 1999
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 16, 2017

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02E60/50
WIPO fieldChemical engineering
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

In a reforming reactor suitable particularly for the water vapor reforming of methanol in mobile applications such as vehicles, a reaction space is filled with a catalyst pellet fill and has a movable reaction space wall which exerts a position-fixing pressure onto the catalyst pellet fill. According to the invention, a filling device is provided through which catalyst material can be filled from the outside into the reaction space through a passage opening formed in one of the reaction space walls.

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