SET Proceedings 2978-4387 Caravel Press 10.65582/set.2008.107 2008.107 Hydrogen Production from Vegetable Oil PlaksinVadim Yu. KoMin Kook JoaSang Bum LeeYon Joon LeeHeon-Ju hjlee@cheju.ac.kr Faculty of Mechanical & Energy System Engineering, Cheju National University, Jeju, Korea 24082008 7 1 978-1-995850-08-5 818 824 24 August 2008 © 2008 Copyright WSSET 2008

We designed a new small-scale device for CO and H2 production by organic fuel reformation. The active region of the reformer consists of wall-through flow manifolds which decreases the gas speed of the fuel-air mixture at the area of reformation. This system does not use catalysts, and thus it is not sensitive to fuel impurities. Reformation of soybean oil shows a 20-30% conversion of carbon into CO, with its concentration reaching 13 % of the outgoing gas. From calculations, the expected content of hydrogen reaches about 16 % by volume.

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