Electric vehicle

Abstract

An electric car which can easily supply hydrogen to a fuel cell and mounts a hydrogen producing device capable of producing a hydrogen-containing gas at low temperature. The electric car comprises at least a fuel cell (30) for supplying hydrogen and an oxidizer to generate power, a hydrogen producing device (10) for producing a hydrogen-containing gas for supplying to the fuel cell, and a motor driven by electricity produced in the fuel cell, characterized in that the hydrogen producing device, which decomposes an organic-matter-containing fuel to produce a hydrogen-containing gas, comprises a diaphragm (11), a fuel pole (12) provided on one surface of the diaphragm, a means (16) of supplying to the fuel pole a fuel containing organic matters and water, an oxidizing pole (14) provided on the other surface of the diaphragm, a means (17) of supplying an oxidizer to the oxidizing pole, and a means of producing and retrieving a hydrogen-containing gas from a fuel pole side.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an electric vehicle equipped with a hydrogen production device for supplying hydrogen to a fuel cell. Background technique [0002] At present, as countermeasures against environmental problems, resource problems, etc., it is becoming more and more important, and the development of electric vehicles as one of the countermeasures is actively progressing. Among them, various developments are underway for electric vehicles equipped with a fuel cell as a power source for obtaining driving force, and devices for carrying hydrogen, which is a fuel for generating electricity using the fuel cell, or a raw fuel for generating hydrogen. [0003] Electric vehicles carrying hydrogen carry hydrogen by filling hydrogen as compressed gas in a high-pressure gas cylinder or storing hydrogen in a hydrogen-absorbing alloy (for example, refer to Patent Documents 1 to 3). In such an electric vehicle loaded with hydrogen, since the fuel gas...

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Problems solved by technology

[0012] However, with regard to electric vehicles carrying hydrogen as fuel, it is pointed out as a problem in the popularization of electric vehicles that it is difficult to widely distribute and easily obtain hydrogen used for filling gas cylinders or storing hydrogen in hydrogen storage alloys.

In particular, the handling of hydrogen is not easy, and there are many problems to be solved to easily transport and store large amounts of hydrogen

If hydrogen storage alloys are used for hydrogen transportation and storage, the operation will become easier, but the known hydrogen storage alloys are all rare metals, so the price is very high, and all hydrogen storage alloys are used to form the means of hydrogen transportation and storage. method is also difficult to achieve

The problem is that no matter what method is used to transport and store hydrogen, in order to directly supply hydrogen as fuel to electric vehicles, it is necessary to re-establish a stable hydrogen circulation system

[0013] In addition, with regard to the reformer used for carrying raw fuel on electric vehicles, methanol, dimethyl ether (DME), ethanol, natural gas, propane, or gasoline are used as fuels, and the development and development of the methanol reformer with the lowest reforming temperature The fastest reforming method currently adopts steam reforming, partial oxidation reforming and combined reforming of these two methods (refer to non-patent document 1), but any reforming method, In order to produce hydrogen-containing gas, reforming must be carried out at a high temperature of 200°C or higher, and there are problems such as poisoning of the reforming catalyst, removal of CO contained in the reformed gas (hydrogen-containing gas), and partial oxidation reforming Or use the nitrogen in the air mixed with the reformed gas in the reforming process

[0022] The invention described in the above-mentioned Patent Document 10 is similar to the inventions described in the above-mentioned Patent Documents 8 and 9 in that protons generated at the anode 112 serving as the fuel electrode permeate the diaphragm 110 and hydrogen is generated at the cathode 114 serving as the counter electrode. It uses the anode of the fuel pole and the counter electrode as the cathode to apply voltage from the DC power supply 120 to electrolyze organic fuels such as methanol, and the generation of hydrogen is on the counter electrode side of the fuel pole, and no oxidant is supplied to the counter electrode, so it is consistent with the present invention. Hydrogen production equipment installed in electric vehicles is significantly different

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