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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2014
Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc., Lancaster, PA (US);
Chien-Hua Chen, Lititz, PA (US);
Howard Pearlman, Haddon Township, NJ (US);
Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc., Lancaster, PA (US);
Abstract
Fuel reforming processes and systems are disclosed. The fuel reforming process includes providing a fuel reformer, the fuel reformer comprising a reaction zone configured for exothermic partial oxidation to generate reformates and a heat exchanger extending from the reaction zone, the heat exchanger configured to expel the reformates through a reformate path and receive fuel-rich reactants through a fuel path, generating the reformates by the exothermic partial oxidation of the fuel-rich reactants within the reaction zone, heating the fuel-rich reactants in reaction zone with the heat exchanger by heat from the reformates in the reformate path. The process is energetically self-sustained and operates without a catalyst. The fuel reforming system includes the fuel reformer with a spiral heat exchanger and a component capable of operation with the reformates and incompatible with combustion products, such as a fuel cell.