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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2010
Subir Roychoudhury, Madison, CT (US);
Maxim Lyubovsky, Fairfax, VA (US);
Curtis Morgan, Ansonia, CT (US);
Joel Desjardins, Vernon, CT (US);
Dennis E. Walsh, Richboro, PA (US);
Subir Roychoudhury, Madison, CT (US);
Maxim Lyubovsky, Fairfax, VA (US);
Curtis Morgan, Ansonia, CT (US);
Joel DesJardins, Vernon, CT (US);
Dennis E. Walsh, Richboro, PA (US);
Precision Combustion, Inc., North Haven, CT (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a process and apparatus for the gasification of a liquid fuel and includes providing a supply of a liquid fuel, a supply of oxidant, and a supply of liquid water; atomizing the liquid fuel and mixing it with the oxidant and steam; catalytically reacting the fuel-oxidant-steam mixture in a catalyst bed; initiating the catalytic reaction with an ignition source; positioning a heat exchanger in proximity with the catalyst bed so as to convert the liquid water to steam; and feeding the steam into the catalytic reaction, thereby eliminating the need for a liquid fuel vaporizer. A preferred catalyst bed includes an ultra-short-channel-length metal substrate.