Abstract: A fuel processing system is disclosed which supplies a hydrogen-rich gas to a fuel cell main unit. When supply of raw fuel is stopped, the fuel processing system executes a purge treatment to cause steam to flow as a purge gas in a forward direction and to cause air to flow in the opposite direction. Residual gas in the device is purged by this purge treatment.

Abstract: A communication network and method of design thereof uses end-to-end delay distribution functions and loss probabilities as design constraint to ensure that all packets of all traffic classes on all end-to-end node pairs of the network reach a destination within a predetermined maximum allowable delay with a given probability. An end-to-end delay distribution function is determined for every end-to-end path for all traffic classes to find a path with a minimum distribution probability value. A distribution function is determined for each link of the path having a minimum distribution probability value to determine a most congested link, the capacity of which is increased until a given minimum probability value of distribution is determined.