A Study of Fuel and Reactor Design for Platinum Nanoparticle Catalyzed Microreactors

Table 1

Alternative fuel study using preheated inlet results summary. Ethanol reservoir was maintained at 45°C.

Fuel	Fuel-air flow rate	Avg. peak temp.	Avg. time const.	Heat production rate
	[mL/min]	[°C]	[s]	[W] based on LHV
Ethanol	800	667 ± 59	—	677
Methane	1000	740 ± 6.8	14.6	547
Propane	800	820 ± 22	10.1	1113
Butane	800	790 ± 9.1	13.9	1435