Reforming of diesel fuel by a recirculation type pulsed voltage electrohydrodynamic atomization
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Ayrault, C.; Chang, J.-S.; Harvel, G.D.; Ewing, D.; Hirata, H.; Matsumoto, S.; Fanson, P.
- Source
- 2011 IEEE International Conference on Dielectric Liquids Dielectric Liquids (ICDL), 2011 IEEE International Conference on. :1-4 Jun, 2011
- Subject
- Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fuels
Discharges
Electron tubes
Plasmas
Power supplies
Electrodes
Electrohydrodynamics
Electrohydrodynamic atomization
reforming
diesel fuel
- Language
- ISSN
- 2153-3725
2153-3733
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 x H y components to the decane level.