Fuel reforming system for an internal combustion engine

Patent · Tue Apr 03 04:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:6299453

Noguchi, M; Bunda, T; Tanada, T

The fuel reforming system for an internal combustion engine has a fuel reforming reactor to be supplied with a hydrocarbon fuel. The reactor contains a catalyst carrier and a catalyst thereon to be heated for facilitating a conversion of the fuel into a reformed gaseous mixture rich with hydrogen which mixture is to be fed into the engine. The catalyst is periodically alternately exposed to the fuel and air so that carbon produced and deposited on the catalyst during the fuel reforming reaction facilitated by the catalyst is burnt away from the catalyst carrier and the catalyst thereon whereby the catalytic performance of the catalyst is restored to ensure a prolonged operative life thereof. The reformed gaseous mixture assures a reliable ignition and combustion of a mixture thereof with air in the engine at a very lean air-fuel ratio to advantageously decrease the emission of harmful commponents of engine exhaust gas.

• Assignee: Nippon Soken, Inc.
• Patent Number(s): US 4147136
• OSTI ID: 6299453
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
330100* -- Internal Combustion Engines
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AIR POLLUTION ABATEMENT
CATALYSTS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CRYOGENIC FLUIDS
ELEMENTS
ENGINES
FLUIDS
FUEL SYSTEMS
HYDROCARBONS
HYDROGEN
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
NONMETALS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
POLLUTION ABATEMENT
REFORMER PROCESSES