Abstract—The replacement of fossil hydrocarbons with the
renewable biomass alternatives is an inevitable requirement in
our transition toward a sustainable economy. However, traditional
petrochemical technologies are not designed to operate
using biomass raw materials. Thus, the development of new
hydrocarbon processing methods is essential. This paper deals
with the study of the hybrid plasma-catalytic reforming of liquid
hydrocarbons. The system for the reforming of liquid hydrocarbons,
which used low-power rotating gliding discharge as a
plasma generator, was studied. Sunflower oil (C17H33COOH) and
ethanol (C2H5OH) have been used as model oxygen-containing
hydrocarbons and diesel fuel (C16H34) has been used as a
model hydrocarbon without oxygen. Reforming products have
been analyzed using mass spectrometry and gas chromatography,
and the combustion of produced syngas was studied. The values
of the reforming efficiency, the ratio between the chemical energy
of the produced syngas and the electric energy spent on the
plasma generation, and the efficiency of the produced syngas
combustion in the standard water heaters were obtained.
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