Patent ID: 6520769
Filing Date: 2003-02-18
Classification: B01B,C01B,H01M,Y02E

Abstract:
A warm-up apparatus for a fuel evaporator comprising:a catalyst combustor for catalytically burning exhaust gas from a fuel cell to produce combustion gas and supplying said fuel evaporator which evaporates raw fuel liquid with the produced combustion gas as an evaporation heat source; an exhaust gas passage for transferring exhaust gas to the catalyst combustor; a combustion gas transferring device including a fuel injection portion and a combustion catalyst, and injecting fuel from said fuel injection portion onto said combustion catalyst, where the fuel is catalytically burned to produce combustion gas, and thereafter transferring the produced combustion gas to said catalyst combustor, wherein said combustion gas transferring device is positioned on one side of said exhaust gas passage.