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Reforming with oxygen-enriched matter

  • US 9,968,906 B2
  • Filed: 06/01/2015
  • Issued: 05/15/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system, comprising a controller, the controller is programmed to:

  • cause, through management of a valve, an air to enter a separator at a flow rate, to separate the air into outputs of an oxygen-enriched portion and a nitrogen-enriched portion,cause the reformer to achieve a desired residence time for a chemical reaction of a first quantity of a fuel with the oxygen-enriched portion, andcause the reformer to achieve a desired operation temperature with the oxygen-enriched portion and a second quantity of the fuel,where the reformer is configured to produce an energy from the chemical reaction between the first quantity of the fuel and the oxygen-enriched portion;

    where the reformer is configured to achieve the desired operation temperature through use of the air and a third quantity of the fuel,where the first quantity of the fuel is smaller than the third quantity of the fuel such that more of the fuel is dedicated to the chemical reaction,where the energy is a first energy,where the reformer is configured to produce a second energy from the air and a fourth quantity of the fuel,where the fourth quantity of the fuel plus the third quantity of the fuel equals the first quantity of the fuel plus the second quantity of the fuel, andwhere the first energy is greater than the second energy.

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