NON-CATALYTIC MULTI-FUEL REFORMER FOR SYNGAS PRODUCTION FOR FUEL CELL APPLICATIONS

摘要

This paper investigates rich combustion of n-heptane, Diesel oil, Jet A-1 Kerosene and Bio-diesel(Rapeseed-oil Methyl Ester) for the purpose of producing hydrogen enriched gas, ready for the cleanupstages for fuel cell applications. Rich flames have been stabilised in a two-layer porous combustorand a range of rich equivalence ratios and porous material configurations have been examined. nheptanewas successfully reformed up to an equivalence ratio of 3, reaching a conversion efficiency upto 83% for a packed bed of alumina bead burner. Similarly, Diesel, Kerosene and Bio-diesel werereformed to syngas in a Zirconia foam burner with conversion efficiency up to 65%. Soot emission hasbeen also assessed, demonstrating a high particle formation for Diesel oil above ?=2 whereas Biodieselshowed the lowest values among all the fuels tested.