Reforming of Liquid Hydrocarbon Fuels for Micro Fuel Cells. Steam Reforming of Pre-reformate from Jet Fuel over Supported Metal Catalysts

preliminary studies on pre-reformer are discussed elsewhere 2 . The target for the main reformer sub-section in our integrated fuel-cell fuel processor is to convert smaller hydrocarbons (mainly C1, with some C2-C4) from the pre-reformer into carbon monoxide and hydrogen without any significant carbon formation. The main concern here is that gas mixtures including also H2 and CO2, instead of pure CH4 and/or C2-C4, will be the feed for the main reformer, since there will be no gas separation device between pre-reformer and reformer. The presence of H2, CO2 and CO produced from prereformer inevitably affects the activity and the carbon formation behavior of catalysts used for reformer. Furthermore, the compositions of the effluent from pre-reformer are uncertain, considering that different catalysts and reaction conditions in the prereformer are also being screened and tested. Therefore, we began the