I read some of the articles which are dealing with reformer gas. They said that the reformer gas helps in achieving better emission control? can any one explain in detail.
Any gaseous fuel forms better homogeneous mixture inside the combustion chamber than liquid fuels. Liquid fuels being sprayed into the combustion chamber forms heterogeneous mixture which suffers from varying equivalence ratio (rich near the injector nozzle and lean farther away from it). This causes non uniform local temperature inside combustion during combustion and eventually results in varying local emission formations.
Reformed gas can be used as a fuel in spark ignition engine or as an added fuel in dual compression ignition engines. In both cases it reduces the emitted emissions and relatively improve the performance. However, as it is a gas, the storage and fueling system must be modified to suit it.