Abstract
The simulation of a dense Pd-based membrane reactor for carrying out the methane, the
methanol and the ethanol steam reforming (SR) reactions for pure hydrogen production is
performed. The same simulation is also performed in a traditional reactor.
This modelling work shows that the use of membrane reactor is effective for carrying
out the methane SR reaction, giving in the best conditions a conversion increase of 800%
with respect to a traditional system, and can be really useful for carrying out the methanol
SR reaction (25% conversion increase). Vice versa, the use of the membrane reactor in the
ethanol SR reaction is still affected by the low catalytic activity. However, also for
the ethanol SR reaction system, the use of the membrane reactor gives an increase of the
ethanol conversion (30%) and a relatively high increase of the hydrogen yield.
& 2008 International Association for Hydrogen Energy
Original language | Undefined |
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Pages (from-to) | 1671-1687 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | International journal of hydrogen energy |
Volume | 33 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Keywords
- IR-67399
- METIS-254272