Diesel Fuel Mini-Processor
Abstract
We built and tested a device intended to render diesel fuel acceptable to a 250W portable POX based fuel processor. The premise, established by chemical kinetics analysis, was that diesel fuel is reformable by POX once its polyaromatic compounds are removed and its naphthenes and olefins cracked. Our device utilized a single plate still to separate those species already light enough to reform from those species heavy enough to require further treatment. Further treatment consisted of a cracking catalyst intended to crack heavy species partly into reformable vapors and partly into coke to be sequestered within the catalyst bed. We concluded that this technique requires better separation than is possible with a single plate still.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 03, 1999
- Accession Number
- ADA369997
Entities
Organizations
- Arthur D. Little