HYDROGEN PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide hydrogen production equipment that is capable of effective heating to prevent the deterioration of hydrogen permeation capabilities and is capable of compaction and of easily conducting maintenance, processing, production and assembling. SOLUTION: In the hydrogen production equipment which produces hydrogen from a process gas by means of a catalyst by heating with a combustion gas and withdraws the produced hydrogen by a hydrogen separation membrane module which forms a space for the permeated side therein, divided by a metal membrane selectively permeating only hydrogen, the hydrogen production equipment is constituted so that the hydrogen separation membrane module is incorporated into every each reaction tube of a plurality of reaction tubes and prevents the deterioration of hydrogen permeation capabilities by allowing the combustion gas to flow along the trunk part of the reaction tube so as to enable the reaction part to be effectively heated. The hydrogen production equipment is unitized by the stacking of a prulariry of the reaction tubes so that the processing, the preparation and the assembling become easy and the maintenance by the unit of the reaction tube becomes possible. Also, the easy maintenance of the hydrogen separation membrane is acommplished. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI