The CO remover of this invention includes an air mixer for mixing air with
hydrogen-rich gas including carbon monoxide and a selective oxidative
catalytic device in which a selective oxidative catalyst bed is formed by
filling selective oxidative catalyst into a gas passing tube. The
selective oxidative catalytic device includes a gas blending unit for
blending gas passing through the central part of the gas passing tube
with gas passing through the peripheral part at a point in the selective
oxidative catalyst bed in the direction of gas flow. As a result, the
reaction apparatus and the CO remover have simple structures. In
addition, gas passing through the central part upstream is blended with
gas passing through the peripheral part upstream to uniformize the
temperature of gas in the gas blending unit, so that high CO selectivity
is obtained.