Patent ID: 8439990
Filing Date: 2013-05-14
Classification: B01J,C01B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for fuel reforming comprising: a) a fuel flow controller for liquid fuel defining an inlet and an exit, wherein the fuel flow controller comprises a pulsed fuel injector; b) an air flow controller defining an inlet and an exit, wherein the air flow controller comprises an air injector; c) an atomizing mixer defining an inlet and an exit wherein the atomizing mixer is configured to produce under operative conditions a fuel-air mixture having an O/C Ratio; d) a passageway for liquid fuel in fluid communication with the exit from the fuel flow controller and said inlet of the atomizing mixer; e) a passageway for air in fluid communication with the exit from the air flow controller and said inlet of the atomizing mixer; f) a catalytic reforming reactor; and g) a passageway for said fuel-air mixture in fluid communication with the exit from the atomizing mixer and with the reforming reactor; wherein the atomizing mixer comprises an atomizer that has said inlet of the atomizing mixer; wherein said inlet of the atomizing mixer is in fluid communication with both said passageway for liquid fuel and said passageway for air; and, wherein said atomizer has said exit of the atomizing mixer in fluid communication with said passageway for the fuel-air mixture.