Reforming of diesel fuel by a recirculation type pulsed voltage electrohydrodynamic atomization

Author

Ayrault, C. ; Chang, J.-S. ; Harvel, G.D. ; Ewing, D. ; Hirata, H. ; Matsumoto, S. ; Fanson, P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. Phys., McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON, Canada

fYear

2011

fDate

26-30 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

An experimental investigation has been conducted to study diesel fuel reforming by a recirculation type electrohydrodynamic atomization system (REHDA). The fuel in the EHD atomization system was injected through a hollow tube electrode that was powered using a high voltage pulse power supply. A hollow ring on the ceramic holder for the hollow tube served as the ground electrode. Experiments were performed for diesel fuel with a flow rate of 4 mL/min. The fuel was recirculated through the EHD atomization system 1 to 5 times. The maximum applied voltage varied from 0 to 26 kV at a pulse repetition rate of 200 Hz. The liquid by-products from the REHDA system were analyzed using a GC. The results showed the REHDA could achieve significant cracking of the large C_xH_y components to the decane level.

Keywords

dissociation; earth electrodes; electrodynamics; fuel gasification; petroleum; pyrolysis; EHD atomization system; REHDA; cracking; decane level; diesel fuel reforming; frequency 200 Hz; ground electrode; high voltage pulse power supply; liquid by-products; recirculation type pulsed voltage electrohydrodynamic atomization; voltage 0 kV to 26 kV; Discharges; Electrodes; Electrohydrodynamics; Electron tubes; Fuels; Plasmas; Power supplies; Electrohydrodynamic atomization; diesel fuel; reforming;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Dielectric Liquids (ICDL), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Trondheim

ISSN

2153-3725

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7352-6

Electronic_ISBN

2153-3725

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDL.2011.6015407

Filename

6015407