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WO/2005/052571A2
A system for the generation of a reference gas by the evaporation of a liquid in said gas, comprising an anhydrous gas line (11), an evaporation chamber (20) in turn comprising a microdrop generator (25) and fed by the an­hydrous gas li...  
WO/2005/040310A1
A liquid feed material such as a heavy hydrocarbon feed in liquid form is contacted with a fluidized bed of heated solid particles which have a bulk horizontal velocity which is generally perpendicular to the flow of a fluidizing medium....  
WO/2005/034274A2
An arrangement for a direct methanol fuel cell includes a fuel cartridge that supplies a source of fuel to the direct methanol fuel cell. The fuel cartridge has a surface area enhanced planar vaporization membrane residing in the fuel ca...  
WO/2005/029625A2
An arrangement for a direct methanol fuel cell includes a fuel cartridge that supplies a source of fuel to the direct methanol fuel cell. The fuel cartridge has a surface area enhanced planar vaporization membrane residing in the fuel ca...  
WO/2005/021122A2
In devices known in the art, “conventional firetube” and “waste heat recovery” boilers each require many small tubes making successive passes within the boiler. In one embodiment of the invention, however, an enhanced conduit (60...  
WO/2004/111159A2
An insulated transition spool apparatus for mounting unheading devices to pressure vessels, such as coker vessels, and enabling repetitive operation thereof is disclosed. The apparatus comprises an outer housing, an inner housing that en...  
WO2004022480B1
The invention relates to a new and improved process and apparatus for the production of high purity hydrogen by steam reforming. The apparatus is an integrated flameless distributed combustion-membrane steam reforming (FDC-MSR) or reacto...  
WO/2004/103897A1
Quench (5) for cooling syngas by means of vaporization of a coolant and for mixing vaporized coolant with said syngas, comprising: a tube (10); a syngas inlet (11) allowing syngas into said tube (10) in a syngas flow direction; a mixing ...  
WO/2004/062806A1
The invention relates to a reaction chamber system (10, 70) for processing samples, comprising a reaction chamber (12), a sample carrier (26) arranged at least in the reaction chamber (12). When in operation, said sample carrier can be d...  
WO/2004/062788A1
Hydrogen-rich reformate gas is produced by a fuel reformer (2) from fuel vapor containing hydrocarbon, which is produced by a fuel vaporizer (6), by means of a partial oxidation reaction and a steam reforming reaction. A fuel injector (8...  
WO/2004/054681A1
The invention relates to an evaporator for the evaporation of water in a hot gas stream, comprising an inlet end, an outlet end, gas flow paths (3) extending from the inlet end to the outlet end and a hightemperature resistant water abso...  
WO/2004/049482A2
A power supply system for producing electric power comprising at least a power generation section for generating power comprises at least one chemical reaction section to which fuel for power generation is supplied; heating sections for ...  
WO/2004/045757A2
A method of and system for purifying fluid of an internal combustion engine or hydraulic system utilizes an evaporation canister (200) separate from a filtering canister (100). A metering valve may be oriented between the filtering canis...  
WO/2004/043565A2
A powered dispensing device for the provision of an evaporable liquid to an atmosphere comprises a reservoir containing evaporable material, a wick extending from said reservoir and providing said evaporable material to a headspace surro...  
WO/2004/044095A2
A process for the production of a reaction product including a carbon containing compound. The process includes providing a film of a fuel source including at least one organic compound on a wall of a reactor, contacting the fuel source ...  
WO/2004/036137A2
A modular construction falling film evaporator (1) is disclosed, comprising a stack (2) of alternate gap-like evaporation chambers (34) and sheet-like evaporator modules (3) with an assembly (31) of parallel microchannels (32, 33), where...  
WO/2004/016948A1
The invention makes available methods and devices for handling liquids in micro channel systems by means of bubbles generated by a movable light beam. In particular the devices relate to pumps, valves, mixers and thermal reactors in micr...  
WO/2004/007355A1
An evaporator for vaporizing a liquid to generate a gas which comprises a straight flow path for a heated gas wherein the heated gas travels in a straight line in a horizontal direction, a vaporization flow path being arranged heat-excha...  
WO/2004/002708A1
Methods and apparatus for forming microstructures (126) in the surface of polymeric web materials (12) for use as optical memory substrates, such as disks. The microstructures (126) may be formed by temporarily laminating a web material ...  
WO/2004/000423A1
An oxidation process is described which involves subjecting a feedstock which contains oxidisable material to temperature, pressure and contact with an oxidant. Excess water and volatile oxidation products, such as carbon dioxide, formic...  
WO/2003/106389A1
Improved methods and related apparatus are disclosed for efficiently recovering the heat of condensation from overhead vapor produced during separation of various components of dehydrogenation reaction effluent, particularly in ethylbenz...  
WO/2003/098725A2
A vaporizer, a fuel cell system including the vaporizer, and a method of vaporizing fuel in a fuel cell system are disclosed. The fuel cell system includes a fuel reservoir (24) for storing a liquid fuel and a fuel cell (10) for consumin...  
WO/2003/097203A1
The system includes a housing (12), a liquid receptor (16) disposed within the housing (12) for accepting the liquid, a liquid inlet (22) for delivering the liquid from outside the housing (12) to the liquid receptor (16), and a measurin...  
WO/2003/086964A1
A steam reformer (200) includes a hydrogen producing region (36), in which a mixed gas stream (20) containing hydrogen gas and other gases is produced from vaporized water and a carbon containing feedstock (16'). The steam reformer furth...  
WO/2003/081689A2
The invention relates to a reforming device for a fuel cell, comprising an evaporating device (6), for evaporating an unprocessed fuel (13) and for the introduction of the unprocessed fuel (13) into a reforming unit, at least one pump fo...  
WO/2003/078311A1
A reforming device which has a flow path (1) for forming a reformed gas provided with a reforming catalyst section (2), a shift catalyst section (3) and a CO selective oxidation catalyst section (4) which are arranged in this order along...  
WO/2003/078895A1
A miniature vaporizer (10) for effectively vaporizing a process fluid (e.g., a liquid media) in small energy system applications, such as systems employing chemical reformers and fuel cells. The vaporizer (10) of the present invention ca...  
WO/2003/078052A1
Microchannel devices and method of use are disclosed wherein a reaction microchamber (52) is in thermal contact with a heat exchange channel (61). An equilibrium limited exothermic chemical process occurs in the reaction microchamber (52...  
WO/2003/078046A1
The invention relates to a device (1), for feeding reactants into a reaction chamber (2), whereby at least one of the reactants is a hot gas stream and at least one other of the reactants is a liquid for vaporisation therein. The device ...  
WO/2003/070628A1
A fuel cell system (10) comprising a fuel reforming processor (18) having a catalyst therein to produce a reformate stream, a water shift reactor (22) downstream of the fuel reforming processor (18) having a catalyst, a preferential oxid...  
WO/2003/070365A1
A process/apparatus is disclosed for continuously separating a liquid medium comprising diluent and unreacted monomers from a polymerization effluent comprising diluent, unreacted monomers and polymer solids, comprising a continuous disc...  
WO/2003/064023A1
An improved chemical mixing micro-device with features on the micro- and nano-scale. The micro-device (1) is comprised of at least one chemical inlet port (20), (35) and one chemical outlet port (30), a micro-evaporator (5), a micro-cham...  
WO/2003/063279A2
In a reforming reactor (31), a partial oxidation reaction is performed between a hydrocarbon fuel and air, and in a mixer (32), water is injected into hot gas heated by the partial oxidation reaction to vaporize the water, and the vapori...  
WO/2003/051767A2
It is known that gaseous fuels can be reformed in several ways in order to produce a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen or in order to produce hydrogen. According to the invention, a non-thermal plasma is produced in a region in whi...  
WO/2003/051766A2
The reforming of fuels containing carbon to produce a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen or to produce hydrogen is known per se in a variety of configurations. According to the invention, a non-thermal plasma is generated specifical...  
WO/2003/049835A1
Methods of separating fluids using capillary forces and/or improved conditions for are disclosed. The improved methods may include control of the ratio of gas and liquid Reynolds numbers relative to the Suratman number. Also disclosed ar...  
WO/2003/033983A2
A fluid processing unit (110) having first (171) and second (152) interleaved flow paths (171) in a cross flow configuration is disclosed. The first flow paths (171) are substantially longer than the second flow paths (152) such that the...  
WO/2003/031047A1
The trend in personal and light commercial transportation vehicle choices is heading toward electric or fuel cell vehicles capable of zero emission. Their demand for electricity to re-charge batteries or hydrogen to operate fuel cells ca...  
WO/2003/028876A1
A micro component steam reformer system for producing hydrogen−enriched gas to power a fuel cell (68) adapted for scalable power requirements. The steam reformer system uses a cycle in which, in laminar flow modules, a vaporized hydroc...  
WO/2003/027006A2
A fuel reforming system comprises a reforming catalyst section (4) performing reformate reactions on supplied fuel gas, a membrane hydrogen separator (5) extracting hydrogen from the reformate gas, a supply device (14, 8 - 12) supplying ...  
WO/2003/022417A2
A modular fluid processing architecture (10) is provided that consists of a matrix of nested tubes or processor modules (11A−D) secured between end block manifolds (12 & 13). Multiple chemical reactors may be housed in the annular spac...  
WO/2003/015908A1
An apparatus for carrying out a process of converting hydrocarbon fuel to a hydrogen rich gas utilizes heat pipes (504) to control the temperatures of the reactor beds (502), manage heat and integrate the heat management in a simple and ...  
WO/2002/087742A1
An ignition system for initiating a fuel cell hydrogen production cycle on demand comprising a module having heat exchanger functions (1, 2) interconnected in an adjacent heater (1c/h, 2c/h) / vaporizer (1v, 2v) relationship in which a f...  
WO/2002/088022A1
A hydrogen production apparatus for generating hydrogen comprises a first input (85) for mixing a stream of liquid water (17) with a stream of feed gas (21) to produce a feed gas-water mixture stream (19) and a heating mechanism (66) for...  
WO/2002/085781A1
The invention relates to a reformer (2), which enables rapid load changes of up to 100 % within a few seconds and which is intended to produce hydrogen by steam reformation from hydrocarbons. Said reformer has an evaporation cooler to co...  
WO/2002/085777A2
The aim of the invention is to provide a device (10) for producing and/or preparing a fuel for a fuel cell, which comprises a number of individual components and which requires little space and has a simple constructive design. To this e...  
WO/2002/083291A1
The invention relates to a device and a method for the catalytic reformation of hydrocarbons or alcohols to hydrogen in several intermediate reactions. The several intermediate reactions are carried out either individually, or in combina...  
WO/2002/058141A1
A carburetor usable for long period without causing a clogging and capable of stably feeding raw material to a reaction part, comprising a diffusion part (8) having a gas passage (2) formed inside a diffusion part body (1), a gas inlet (...  
WO/2002/050471A1
An oxygen separation and combustion apparatus (1; 2; 3) in which fluid passages (18, 20, 22, 23) and oxygen transport membranes (12, 14, 16) are located within a combustion chamber (10). The oxygen transport membranes (12, 14, 16) separa...  
WO/2002/044082A2
A compact, multitube steam reformer converts a fuel into a reformate stream comprising hydrogen. In one embodiment, the reformer comprises a closed vessel and a burner disposed within the vessel. The burner comprises a start fuel manifol...  

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