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 …

BACKGROUND Energy production is always racing toward the next wave of technologies
that will produce cleaner, more efficient, and less expensive energy. Fuel cells are often …

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 …

A method and apparatus is described for reformulating raw gas and/or reducing and/or
converting the tar in a raw gas from a gasification reaction. More specifically, a gas …

Abstract A Plasma Arc Reformer for creating a useful fuel, such as Methanol, using any of
Methane, Municipal Solid Waste, farm or forest waste, coal orchar rock from oil shale …

An industrial scale smelting system for using arc furnaces for processing large quantities of
ore in a production manner for recovery of a plurality of elements in useful quantities using a …

In multichannel audio coding, an improved coding efficiency is achieved by the following
measure: the noise filling of zero-quantized scale factor bands is performed using noise …

Embodiments described herein generally relate to a reforming chamber housing a
hydrocarbon-water mixture and receiving a control voltage signal to cause molecular …

A method of forming a synthesis gas utilizing a reformer is disclosed. The method utilizes a
reformer that includes a plasma zone to receive a pre-heated mixture of reactants and ionize …

Devices and methods for reducing the specific energy required to reform or pyrolyze
reactants in plasmas operating at high flow rates and high pressures are presented. These …