Patent ID: 7622086

Claim:
A selectively permeable membrane type reactor comprising a catalyst for promoting a chemical reaction, a selectively permeable membrane which selectively allows a specific component to pass therethrough, and a carrier for disposing the catalyst and the selectively permeable membrane, the carrier being a tubular body having two or more gas passage cells partitioned and formed by a partition wall formed of a porous body, the catalyst being individually disposed in some of the cells, the selectively permeable membrane being individually disposed in the remainder of the cells, the cell in which the catalyst is disposed and the cell in which the selectively permeable membrane is disposed being adjacently disposed, the carrier including one center cell disposed to include a center axis of the carrier and two or more peripheral cells disposed adjacent to the center cell on a periphery of the center cell, the catalyst being disposed in either the center cell or the peripheral cells, and the selectively permeable membrane being disposed in the other.