STEAM REFORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR STEAM REFORMING USING THE SAME, AND INDUSTRIAL FURNACE

摘要

A steam reforming apparatus (21) is configured to beplaced in an industrial furnace (100) sintering an articleto be sintered with a heat generated by fusing a fuel and touse a fed hydrocarbon and fed steam as raw materials. Theapparatus (21) includes a low-temperature reforming section(23) and a high-temperature reforming section (22). Thelow-temperature reforming section (23) includes a metaltubular reactor (25) or a ceramic tubular reactor eachhousing a reforming catalyst for accelerating a steamreforming reaction, and the high-temperature reformingsection (22) includes a ceramic tubular reactor (24) tocause a steam reforming reaction inside thereof. There isprovided a steam reforming apparatus capable of recoveringwaste heat by using part of the combustion heat (waste heat)of the industrial furnace efficiently in accordance with thetemperature range thereof.