Optimizing Hydrogen Production Capacity of Plasmatron Diesel Reformer

International Conference on Mechanical, Materials and Renewable Energy

机械制造;材料科学;能源学

Borah, Abhijit^1 ; Barua, Emon^1 ; Mohanta, Dipyaman^1 ; Dutta, Riku^1

Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Silchar, Assam

788010, India^1

关键词: Fuel flow rates;    Fuel injectors;    Hydrogen contents;    Hydrogen-rich gas;    Inlet process;    Nitrogen oxides emission;    Nonthermal plasma;    Volume percentage;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/377/1/012010/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/377/1/012010

学科分类：材料科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

To curb exploding nitrogen oxides emission, Plasmatron converter offers a simple technique to convert diesel fuel into hydrogen rich gas. The H2 rich gas can be used for NOx trap applications, improving lean burn and reducing burn duration. In the present work, a plasmatron device is fabricated using G.I Pipe and electrode that produces low current non-thermal plasma. Two design of the device considering fuel inlet process is examined. The diesel reformate obtained is tested for hydrogen content by Gas Chromatography (GC) at four different fuel flow rates. The effectiveness of the designs is tested with respect to H2 content in the reformate and its corresponding fuel flow rate and found that atomized diesel spray using fuel injector is effective in comparison to fuel nozzle. GC results shows hydrogen quantity by volume percentage in the reformate is optimum within the range of 0.18g/s to 0.22g/s of diesel flow rate.