Improvement in Hydrogen Production with Plasma Reformer System

Performance Characteristics of Lean Burn Engine Fuelled with Hydrogen Rich Gas from Plasma Fuel Reformer

In order to analyze the effect of hydrogen rich gas addition (HRG) on lean burn engine’s thermal efficiency and emission, an experimental research was conducted on a gasoline direct injection (GDI) engine using definite fraction of HRG. The results showed that HRG addition could significantly extend the lean operation limit, improve the engine’s lean burn ability, and decrease burn duration. HR...

A Low-temperature Pom Micro Methanol Reformer with High Fuel Conversion Rate and Hydrogen Production Yield

HIGH FUEL CONVERSION RATE AND HYDROGEN PRODUCTION YIELD Hsueh-Sheng Wang, Yu-Chuan Su*, Yuh-Jeen Huang and Fan-Gang Tseng * Department of Engineering and System Science, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan, ROC ABSTRACT In this article, a low-temperature partial-oxidation-mode (POM) micro methanol reformer with the ...

Simulation of Hydrogen Generation from Methane Partial Oxidation in a Plasma Fuel Reformer

2 ABSTRACT A model for the chemistry in a plasma fuel reformer or plasmatron has been developed. The plasma fuel reformer is set up to produce syngas (hydrogen and carbon monoxide gas mixture) from partial oxidation of hydrocarbons. The behavior of methane as fuel has been investigated to characterize and simulate the plasmatron performance. The goal of this work has been improved understanding...

Hydrogen Production via Plasma Reformers

The potential for efficient production of hydrogen-rich gas from hydrocarbon fuels using thermal plasmas has been investigated both analytically and experimentally. Thermodynamic analysis shows that the most efficient production of hydrogen from hydrocarbons can be achieved by partial oxidation (lambda = 0.25); at optimal conditions, the availability of the output fuel mixture is 83 percent of ...

Spiral Methanol to Hydrogen Micro-Reformer for Fuel Cell Applications