Experimental study for production of h2/co synthesis gas using steam plasma

Summary form only given. The use of synthesis gas offers the opportunity to furnish a broad range of environmentally clean fuels and high value chemicals. However, synthesis gas manufacturing systems based on waste oil are capital intensive, and hence, there is great interest in technologies for cost effective synthesis gas production. Direct production of synthesis gas with flexible H₂/CO ratio, which is in agreement with the stoichiometric ratios required by major synthesis gas based petrochemicals, can decrease the capital investment as well as the operation cost. Although CO₂ reforming and catalytic partial oxidation can directly produce desirable H₂/CO synthesis gas can be obtained by optimizing the process schemes based on steam reforming and autothermal reforming as well as partial oxidation. In this work, the possibility of using the electric arc plasmatron for the work on the water vapor as the basic heat-transfer agent - as the plasma-forming gas. The theoretical calculation is carried out and the practical results of the work of the plasmatron using the water vapor are obtained. Process of the decomposition of waste oil for increasing the efficiency of heat exchange in technological process is investigated