Ethanol fuel reforming system for internal combustion engines

Details Ethanol fuel reforming system for internal combustion engines Ethanol fuel reforming system for internal combustion engines

2008-05-09

2010-12-28

Cuff, Michael (Department: 3741)

Internal-combustion engines

Combined devices

Generating plants

C123S00100A, C123S304000, C123S557000, C123S558000, C060S295000, C060S282000, C060S299000, C060S300000, C060S320000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07856950

ABSTRACT:
An ethanol fuel reforming system for internal combustion engines performs a reaction of reforming ethanol into diethyl ether at a constant temperature with stability. The system has a reformer for containing a reforming catalyst, a first heat exchanger for heating a heating medium with the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine, a second heat exchanger for heating an ethanol fuel with the heating medium, and heating medium circulating means for circulating the heating medium. The heating medium makes distribution of temperature in the reformer uniform. The heating medium heats the reformer and the ethanol fuel to an identical temperature. The reformer is an ethanol fuel channel filled with the catalyst, and the ethanol fuel channel is bent in the reformer.

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