Patent ID: 8101141

Claim:
A unified fuel processing reactor for a solid oxide fuel cell, comprising: a primary-reformer for reforming a hydrocarbon-base fuel and generating hydrogen-rich reformed gas; a desulfurizer downstream of the primary-reformer for removing a sulfur component from the reformed gas; and a post-reformer connected with and downstream of the dusulfurizer for selectively decomposing a low carbon (C 2 ˜C 5 ) hydrocarbon compound contained in a desulfurized reformed gas into hydrogen and methane, wherein the primary-reformer, the desulfurizer and the post-reformer are in the unified reactor and isolated from each other by internal partition walls except a passage for conveying fluid, and the primary-reformer being at a center portion of the reactor, and the post-reformer and the desulfurizer are concentrically disposed in turn outside of the primary-reformer.