Compact Reformer for Treatment of Liquid and Gaseous Fuels

We have designed a small scale reformer to maintain a reaction of partial oxidation. It contains a fuel and air supply part, a reforming mixture preparation, a reaction initiation part, and the reformation part. An important parameter for the quality of reformation is a liquid fuels atomization on the inlet of the reformer. We designed a diesel evaporating system which gives a perfect atomization. The fuel steam is mixing later on with a hot air in a mixing pipe, and then passes throw a flame blocking media and get into an initiation chamber, where the sparking plug ignites the oxidation reaction. No catalyst was used in the reaction. The reformer used a new labyrinth structure of reformer thereby increasing the effective burning surface by turning the flame front. The reformer consumes less then 200 watts without a heat recirculation, it happens in a cold start. At the steady work the power consumption can be even less.