Patent ID: 8011348

Claim:
The method of initiation of ignition, of intensification of combustion or reforming of combustible fuel-air or fuel-oxygen mixture comprising providing a combustible mixture in a combustion chamber and exciting the combustible mixture by means of pulsed periodic nanosecond high-voltage discharge, wherein the discharge is characterized by the following: discharge amplitude U [kV] is limited by the constraint: 3·10 −17 >U /( L×n )>3·10 −18 , high-voltage pulse leading edge rise time τ f [ns] is limited by the constraint: RC<τ f <3·10 −18 ×L 2 ×n/U, and high-voltage pulse duration τ pul [ns] is limited by the constraint: 10 17 /n<τ pul <3·10 20 ×( L×R )/ n where U—high-voltage pulse amplitude, [kV]; L—typical size of the discharge gap, [cm], n—molecular concentration in the unit of discharge section volume, [cm −3 ], R—power line resistance [Ohm], C—discharge gap capacitance [F].