Abstract
In order to improve efficiency of small-displacement combustion engine, reuse of useful compositions of exhaust gas is experimented by using newly developed Solid Oxide Fuel Cell. The exhaust gas include trace of unburned fuel, hydrocarbons and oxygen includes some unburned fuel, hydrocarbons, oxygen, and water. Meanwhile high temperature about 973K can be expected at exhaust manifold, if the SOFC system is installed there, electric power can be generated with some steam reforming of these gases. If the energy is collected from the exhaust gas with the reactions, that can provides Lighter AC Generator and battery, and less catalyzing unit to combustion engine. This can derives lighter weight chassis and totally reduction of fuel consumption. In our previous report, it is confirmed that our developed SOFC unit can generate electric power from exhaust gas. In this paper, the power generation experiment in the case of 10 vol% bioethanol fuel is reported.
