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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2015
Ceramatec, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Joseph J Hartvigsen, Kaysville, UT (US);
Singaravelu Elangovan, South Jordan, UT (US);
Piotr Czernichowski, Layton, UT (US);
Michele Hollist, South Jordan, UT (US);
Michael Boettcher, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
CERAMATEC, INC., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
A reformer is disclosed in one embodiment of the invention as including a channel to convey a preheated plurality of reactants containing both a feedstock fuel and an oxidant. A plasma generator is provided to apply an electrical potential to the reactants sufficient to ionize one or more of the reactants. These ionized reactants are then conveyed to a reaction zone where they are chemically transformed into synthesis gas containing a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. A heat transfer mechanism is used to transfer heat from an external heat source to the reformer to provide the heat of reformation.