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**Waste Heat Recycling for Fuel Reforming** 

At the current rate of consumption, it is estimated that the crude oil reserves of the entire world will be depleted in less than 40 years. Due to an unstable international situation, the price of crude oil keeps rising, compelling the price of other fossil energies to soar. Because of its high dependency on imported energy, Taiwan is deeply affected by the crude oil price. Additionally, because of its low cost and high carbon number, fossil fuel has been the major fuel used in Taiwan. The enormous number of vehicles and motorcycles in Taiwan emit excess amounts of carbon dioxide, sulfur, and nitrogen; consequently, the level of greenhouse gas emissions in Taiwan far exceeds that of other countries. Because coal, natural gas, and petroleum will still be the major sources of energy in the short to medium term future; and since increasing energy efficiency is presently a globally acknowledged strategy; the use of new energy technologies for the transformation of traditional fuels into clean fuels - such as clean coal, fuel cells, and fuel reforming - is being promoted all over the world. Combining all the factors described, it has become necessary to quickly develop new energy and combustion techniques with existing equipment and resources to reduce air

Plasma-assisted reforming of hydrogen production is a promising energy utilization technology, and an increasing number of research units are conducting related experiments around the world. Plasma-assisted production of hydrogen is different from traditional hydrogen production approaches, and the equipment involved in the plasma-assisted production of hydrogen is small, easy to start, and economical; it can also increase overall thermal efficiency of internal combustion engine by combining with the hydrogen produced

The method of hydrogen production by plasma or catalytic converters with various hydrocarbon fuels has been studied by various researchers internationally. An arc generated plasma was used to facilitate the reforming reaction by heating. The heated mixture could be distributed to all of the passages in the reaction chamber by arc rotation driven by magnetic field. Water vapor could be directed into the system to lower the temperature of the electrodes via heat recycling to prevent the reaction region from over-heating, therefore extending the life of the system (Bromberg et al., 1997). The optimum settings and the cost of

**1. Introduction** 

pollution produced by combustion.

from the fuel reforming system.

Rong-Fang Horng1 and Ming-Pin Lai2 *1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kun Shan University, Tainan City,* 

*2Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City,* 
