The process and the device of assistance by electric discharge plasma for
a partial oxidization of various liquids or gas, has for object the gas
rich production of CO and H2 (syngas) can contain the CH4 and C2H4 also,
this without soot formation. Carbonaceous matters considered here are
fossil origin (as the diesel oil, gas, the kerosene, the naphtha, the
heavy oil, the natural gas, etc.) or renewable (as the rape oil, the
ethanol, the glycerol, the biooil, the molasses, the biogas,
etc.).Products conversion is obtained in a device by electric discharge
plasma GlidArc-I, installed in a superior compartment of the device and
communicating directly with its full lower compartment by a refractory
porous containing oxides of nickel. The GlidArc-I first of all serves to
light the electro-reinforced total combustion of a flux reduce a
carbonaceous (fuel) mixed with a gas combustive base of oxygen (for
example air). This combustion warms the then catalytic refractory of
post-plasma until a favourable temperature is obtain to the partial
catalytic oxidization of fuel toward the syngas or the mixed syngas with
methane and the ethylene (reformats). Finally, these discharges maintain
and consolidate this partial oxidization without production of soot and
with a total conversion of fuel. The power dissipated in the GlidArc-I is
negligible (2% to the maximum) in relation to the power thermal lower
reach by the flux of the syngas or of reformats it thus products.