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In search for an alternative fuel for internal combustion engines, we have studied the possibility of obtaining molecular hydrogen via the conversion of air mixture with ethanol and water vapors in a new plasma reactor. It is shown that, in agreement with experimental data, the H2 concentration is a linear function of the discharge current and decreases with increasing gas flow rate in the interelectrode gap. It is established that the proposed approach provides higher molecular hydrogen concentrations as compared to those achieved with other methods.
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Original Russian Text © A I. Shchedrin, D.S. Levko, V.Ya. Chernyak, V.V. Yukhimenko, V.V. Naumov, 2009, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 10, pp. 18–24.
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Shchedrin, A.I., Levko, D.S., Chernyak, V.Y. et al. Conversion of air mixture with ethanol and water vapors in nonequilibrium gas-discharge plasma. Tech. Phys. Lett. 35, 449–451 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785009050198
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