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Reforming of Hydrocarbon Fuel Using Water Jet Plasma  

Kim, Seong-Cheon (BK21 Team for Biohydrogen Production.Department Environmental Engineering, Chosun University)
Chun, Young-Nam (BK21 Team for Biohydrogen Production.Department Environmental Engineering, Chosun University)
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Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to develop water jet plasma reactor and investigate the optimal condition of the syngas production by reforming of hydrocarbon fuel. Fuel used was propane and plasma was generated by arc discharge on water jet surface. Discharge slipping over the water surface has a number of advantages such as a source of short-wave and UV radiation, and it can be used for biological and chemical purification of water. Parametric screening studies were conducted, in which there were the variations of power ($0.18{\sim}0.74$ kW), water jet flow rate($38.4{\sim}65.6$ mL/min), electrode gap($5{\sim}15$ mm) and treatment time($2{\sim}20$ min). When the variations were 0.4 kW, 53.9 mL/min, 10 mm and 20 min respectively, result of maximum $H_2$ concentration was 61.6%, intermediates concentration were 6.1% and propane conversion rate was 99.8%.
Keywords
Plasma; Reforming; Hydrogen; Water Jet; Syngas;
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