Patent ID: 7833496

Claim:
A preferential oxidation reactor comprising: a plate-shaped chamber having a front, a back, and a side wall interconnecting the front and the back; an inlet formed at the front of the chamber, the inlet supplying an incoming material into the chamber; an outlet formed at the back of the chamber, the outlet discharging a material from the chamber; a main reactor disposed inside the plate-shaped chamber, the main reactor converting carbon monoxide contained in the incoming material into another material; a catalyst formed inside the main reactor, the catalyst promoting the conversion of carbon monoxide of the incoming material into the another material; a distributor formed inside the plate-shaped chamber, the distributor formed between the inlet and the main reactor, the distributor guiding flow of the incoming material supplied through the inlet into the main reactor; and a radiator provided on an outer surface of the plate-shaped chamber, the radiator being provided closer to the back of the chamber than the front of the chamber, the radiator having a shape of a swept wing with a predetermined sweep angle, the swept wing sweeping along a direction from the inlet to the outlet.