USE OF PLASMA REFORMING OF FUEL FOR REDUCTION 
OF THE TOXICITY OF DIESEL ENGINES

S. A. Zhdanok, G. M. Vasil'ev,
V. A. Vasetskii, and A. V. Khavets

UDC 621.436

Problems in the use of plasma reforming of Diesel fuel 
for reduction of the toxicity of exhaust gases are considered. Results 
of experiments on the decomposition of Diesel fuel in nonequilibrium 
plasma of a spark discharge are given. It is shown that under these 
conditions the content of hydrogen in the obtained synthesis gas can 
reach 10% or more.

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National 
Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, 
Belarus. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 78, 
No. 1, pp. 171-173, January-February, 2005. Original article 
submitted October 14, 2004.