Efficiency of a hybrid-type plasma-assisted fuel reformation system
- Applied Plasma Technologies, Mclean, VA (USA)
The major advantages of a new plasma-assisted fuel reformation system are its cost effectiveness and technical efficiency. Applied Plasma Technologies has proposed its new highly efficient hybrid-type plasma-assisted system for organic fuel combustion and gasification. The system operates as a multimode multipurpose reactor in a wide range of plasma feedstock gases and turndown ratios. This system also has convenient and simultaneous feeding of several reagents in the reaction zone such as liquid fuels, coal, steam, and air. A special methodology has been developed for such a system in terms of heat balance evaluation and optimization. This methodology considers all existing and possible energy streams, which could influence the system's efficiency. The developed hybrid-type plasma system could be suitable for combustion applications, mobile and autonomous small- to mid-size liquid fuel and coal gasification modules, hydrogen-rich gas generators, waste-processing facilities, and plasma chemical reactors.
- OSTI ID:
- 21149576
- Journal Information:
- IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Vol. 36, Issue 6; ISSN 0093-3813
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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