REFORMED-GAS COOLER OF ALCOHOL REFORMED-GAS ENGINE

摘要

PURPOSE:To simplify construction, suppress the heat radiation from a pipeline and a heat exchanger, etc., and stably feed reformed gas to an engine even if the exhaust heat of the engine is little and the generated quantity of reformed gas is small. CONSTITUTION:In an alcohol reformed-gas engine reforming liquid alcohol into gas affluent in hydrogen and using this reformed gas as fuel, a heat exchanger 17 performing the heat exchange between the reformed gas reformed by a reformer 3 and liquid alcohol and a surge tank 16 storing mofified gas are provided, and a heat exchanger 17 is stored in the tank 16. Thereby, a pipeline 15, etc. of reformed gas are made shorter and the construction is simplified, the heat radiation from the pipeline 15 and heat exchanger 17 is reduced, thus the temperature of the reformed gas is prevented from being decreased too much. Accordingly, the condensed component in gas is not increased while the reformed gas is fed to the engine, and the reformed gas can be fed in a stable condition.