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A 95 mm × 40 mm × 15 mm compact reactor for hydrogen production from methanol‐steam reforming (MSR) is constructed by integrating a vaporizer, reformer, and combustor into a single unit. CuO/ZnO/Al2O3 is used as the catalyst for the MSR while the required heat is provided using Platinum (Pt) ‐catalytic methanol combustion. The reactor performance is measured using three reformer designs: patterned micro‐channel; inserted catalyst layer placed in a single plain channel; and catalyst coated directly on the bottom wall of single plain channel. Because of longer reactant residence time and more effective heat transfer, slightly higher methanol conversion can be obtained from the reformer with patterned microchannels. The experimental results show that there is no significant reactor performance difference in methanol conversion, hydrogen (H2) production rate, and carbon monoxide (CO) composition among these three reformer designs. These results indicated that the flow and heat transfer may not play important roles in compact size reactors. The reformer design with inserted catalyst layer provides convenience in replacing the aged catalyst, which may be attractive in practical applications compared with the conventional packed bed and wall‐coated reformers. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献
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Kai-Fan LoShwin-Chung Wong 《International Journal of Hydrogen Energy》2011,36(17):10719-10726
This paper presents a continuation of our work on our simple novel feeding method for a methanol steam reformer. Using a single heat source, a fixed ratio of water and methanol vapor can be fed into the reformer passively without fuel pumps. The feasibility of this method has already been verified using an electric heater and a catalytic combustor fueled with pure methanol is used at present. Machined on a copper plate, a catalytic combustor in a u-turn-channel was positioned under a two-turn serpentine channel reformer. Water/methanol feed ratios of 0.8-1.47 were managed under different reaction temperatures. Highly uniform temperature distributions throughout the reformer were demonstrated. With an increasing reaction temperature, the product composition varied from 71.5% H2 to 0.26% CO to 73% H2 and 0.45% CO. The methanol conversion exceeded 98% when the reaction temperature was higher than 292 °C and the water/methanol feed ratio was over 1.0. 相似文献
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《International Journal of Hydrogen Energy》2020,45(58):33235-33247
Steam reforming of natural gas produces the majority of the world's hydrogen (H2) and it is considered as a cost-effective method from a product yield and energy consumption point of view. In this work, we present a simulation and an optimization study of an industrial natural gas steam reforming process by using Aspen HYSYS and MATLAB software. All the parameters were optimized to successfully run a complete process including the hydrogen production zone units (reformer reactor, high temperature gas shift reactor HTS and low temperature gas shift reactor LTS) and the purification zone units (absorber and methanator). Optimum production of hydrogen (87,404 MT/year) was obtained by fixing the temperatures in the reformer and the gas shift reactors (HTS & LTS) at 900 °C, 500 °C and 200 °C respectively while maintaining a pressure of 7 atm, and a steam to carbon ratio (S/C) of 4. Moreover, ~99% of the undesired CO2 and CO gases were removed in the purification zone and a reduction of energy consumption of 77.5% was reached in the heating and cooling units of the process. 相似文献
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《International Journal of Hydrogen Energy》2020,45(56):31985-31999
Two kinds of Ru/C catalysts prepared by two different methods and supported on two graphitized carbons differing in their surface area were studied in CO methanation in the H2-rich gas. The textural parameters of the support materials were characterized by means of N2 physisorption. XRPD, XPS, TEM and CO- chemisorption studies indicate that the application of wet impregnation leads to more homogeneous composition of the Ru/carbon system and higher Ru dispersion than dry impregnation for both supports. The activity of the Ru/carbon samples in CO methanation in a H2-rich gas stream depends on the structure and average size of the active phase crystallites. The combination of wet impregnation and the use of graphitized carbon of appropriate structure in the preparation of the Ru/C catalyst lead to a complete conversion of CO at 240 °C. 相似文献
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《International Journal of Hydrogen Energy》2023,48(12):4649-4664
The distributed power generation of methanol steam reforming reactor combined with solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) has the characteristics of outstanding economic advantages. In this paper, a methanol steam reforming reactor was designed which integrates catalyst combustion, vaporization and reforming. By catalyst combustion, it can achieve stable operation to supply fuel for kW-class SOFC in real time without additional heating equipment. The optimal operating condition of the reforming reactor is 523–553 K, and the steam to carbon ratio (S/C) is 1.2. To study the reforming performance, methanol steam reforming (MSR), methanol decomposition (MD), water-gas shift (WGS) were considered. Operating temperature is the greatest factor affecting reforming performance. The higher the reaction temperature, the lower the H2 and CO2, the higher the CO and the methanol conversion rate. The methanol conversion rate is up to 95.03%. The higher the liquid space velocity (LHSV), the lower the methanol conversion rate, the lowest is 90.7%. The temperature changes of the reforming reactor caused by the load change of stack takes about 30 min to reach new balance. Local hotspots within the reforming reactor lead to an excessive local temperature to test a small amount of CH4 in the reforming gas. The methanation reaction cannot be ignored at the operating temperature. The reforming gas contains 70–75% H2, 3–8% CO, 18–22% CO2 and 0.0004–0.3% CH4. Trace amounts of C2H6 and C2H4 are also found in some experiments. The reforming reactor can stably supply the fuel for up to 1125 W SOFC. 相似文献
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《International Journal of Hydrogen Energy》2019,44(21):10415-10426
The main goal of this research is the modeling and optimization of an industrial hydrogen unit in a domestic oil refinery at steady state condition. The considered process consists of steam methane reforming furnace, low and high temperature shift converters, CO2 absorption column and methanation reactor. In the first step, the reactors are heterogeneously modeled based on the mass and energy balance equations considering heat and mass transfer resistances in the gas and catalyst phases. The CO2 absorption column is simulated based on the equilibrium non-ideal approach. In the second step, a single objective optimization problem is formulated to maximize hydrogen production in the plant considering operating and economic constraints. The feed temperature, firebox temperature, and steam flow rate in the reformer, feed temperature in shift converters, lean amine flow rate in the absorption column, and feed temperature in the methanator are selected as decision variables. The calculated effectiveness factors and mass transfer coefficients prove that the methane reforming is inertia-particle mass transfer control, while shift and methanation reactions are surface reaction control. The simulation results show that applying the optimal condition on the system increases hydrogen production capacity from 85.93 to 105.5 mol s−1. 相似文献
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Jung-Il YangJae-Hong Ryu Kwan-Young LeeNam-Jo Jung Ji Chan ParkDong Hyun Chun Hak-Joo KimJung Hoon Yang Ho-Tae LeeInho Cho Heon Jung 《International Journal of Hydrogen Energy》2011,36(15):8850-8856
The pre-reforming of higher hydrocarbon, propane, was performed to generate hydrogen from LPG without carbon deposition on the catalysts. A Ru/Ni/MgAl2O4 metallic monolith catalyst was employed to minimize the pressure drop over the catalyst bed. The propane pre-reforming reaction conditions for the complete conversion of propane with no carbon formation were identified to be the following: space velocities over 2400 h−1 and temperatures between 400 and 450 °C with a H2O/C1 ratio of 3. The combined pre-reformer and the main reformer system with the Ru/Ni/MgAl2O4 metallic monolith catalyst was employed to test the conversion propane to syngas where the reaction heat was provided by catalytic combustors. Propane was converted in the pre-reformer to 52.5% H2, 27.0% CH4, 17.5% CO, and 3.0% CO2 with a 331 °C inlet temperature and a 482 °C catalyst outlet temperature. The main steam reforming reactor converted the methane from the pre-reformer with a conversion of higher than 99.0% with a 366 °C inlet temperature and an 824 °C catalyst outlet temperature. With a total of 912 cc of the Ru/Ni/MgAl2O4 metallic monolith catalyst in the main reformer, the H2 production from the propane reached an average of 3.25 Nm3h−1 when the propane was fed at 0.4 Nm3h−1. 相似文献
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《Journal of power sources》2005,145(2):702-706
An integrated microchannel methanol processor was developed by assembling unit reactors, which were fabricated by stacking and bonding microchannel patterned stainless steel plates, including fuel vaporizer, heat exchanger, catalytic combustor and steam reformer. Commercially available Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalyst was coated inside the microchannel of the unit reactor for steam reforming. Pt/Al2O3 pellets prepared by ‘incipient wetness’ were filled in the cavity reactor for catalytic combustion. Those unit reactors were integrated to develop the fuel processor and operated at different reaction conditions to optimize the reactor performance, including methanol steam reformer and methanol catalytic combustor. The optimized fuel processor has the dimensions of 60 mm × 40 mm × 30 mm, and produced 450sccm reformed gas containing 73.3% H2, 24.5% CO2 and 2.2% CO at 230–260 °C which can produce power output of 59 Wt. 相似文献
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A fuel cell-based combined heat and power system using a high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell has been modelled. The fuel cell is fed with the outlet hydrogen stream from a methanol steam reforming reactor. In order to provide the necessary heat to this reactor, it was considered the use of a catalytic combustor fed with methanol. The modelling aims to fit the hydrogen production to the demand of the fuel cell to provide 1 kWe, maintaining a CO concentration always lower than 30,000 ppm. A system with 65 cells (45.16 cm2 cell area) stack operating at 150 °C and hydrogen utilization factor = 0.9 (with O2/methanol ratio = 2 at combustor; H2O/methanol ratio = 2 and temperature = 300 °C at reformer) needed a total methanol flow of 23.8 mol h−1 (0.96 L h−1) to reach 1 kWe, with a system power efficiency (LHV basis) ca. 24% and a CHP efficiency over 87%. The ability to recycle the non-converted hydrogen from the fuel cell anode to the combustor and to use the heat produced at the fuel cell for obtaining hot water increased the global energy efficiency. 相似文献
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《International Journal of Hydrogen Energy》2023,48(64):25216-25230
The catalytic effects of CO preferential oxidation and methanation catalysts for deep CO removal under different operating conditions (temperature, space velocity, water content, etc.) are systematically studied from the aspects of CO content, CO selectivity, and hydrogen loss index. Results indicate that the 3 wt% Ru/Al2O3 preferential oxidation catalysts reduce CO content to below 10 ppm with a high hydrogen consumption of 11.6–15.7%. And methanation catalysts with 0.7 wt% Ru/Al2O3 also exhibit excellent CO removal performance at 220–240 °C without hydrogen loss. Besides, NiClx/CeO2 methanation catalysts possess the characteristics of high space velocity, high activity, and high water-gas resistance, and can maintain the CO content at close to 20 ppm. Based on these experimental results, the coupling scheme of combining NiClx/CeO2 methanation catalysts (low cost and high reaction space velocity) with 0.7 wt% Ru/Al2O3 methanation catalysts (high activity) to reduce CO content to below10 ppm is proposed. 相似文献
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M. Andisheh Tadbir M.H. Akbari 《International Journal of Hydrogen Energy》2011,36(20):12822-12832
A numerical simulation of methanol steam reforming in a microreactor integrated with a methanol micro-combustor is presented. Typical Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 and Pt catalysts are considered for the steam reforming and combustor channels respectively. The channel widths are considered at 700 μm in the baseline case, and the reactor length is taken at 20 mm. Effects of Cu/ZnO catalyst thickness, gas hourly space velocities of both steam reforming and combustion channels, reactor geometry, separating substrate properties, as well as inlet composition of the steam reforming channel are investigated. Results indicate that increasing catalyst thickness will enhance hydrogen production by about 68% when the catalyst thickness is increased from 10 μm to 100 μm. Gas space velocity of the steam reforming channel shows an optimum value of 3000 h−1 for hydrogen yield, and the optimum value for the space velocity of the combustor channel is calculated at 24,000 h−1. Effects of inlet steam to carbon ratio on hydrogen yield, methanol conversion, and CO generation are also examined. In addition, effects of the separating substrate thickness and material are examined. Higher methanol conversion and hydrogen yield are obtained by choosing a thinner substrate, while no significant change is seen by changing the substrate material from steel to aluminum with considerably different thermal conductivities. The produced hydrogen from an assembly of such microreactor at optimal conditions will be sufficient to operate a low-power, portable fuel cell. 相似文献
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《International Journal of Hydrogen Energy》2019,44(20):9978-9986
For the first time the influence of CO, CO2 and H2O content on the performance of chlorinated NiCeO2 catalyst in selective or preferential CO methanation was studied systematically. It was shown that the rate of CO methanation over Ni(Cl)/CeO2 increases with the increasing H2 concentration, is independent of CO2 concentration and decreases with increasing CO and H2O concentrations; the rate of CO2 methanation is weakly sensitive to H2 and CO2 concentrations and decreases with increasing CO and H2O concentrations. High catalyst selectivity was attributed to Ni surface blockage by strongly adsorbed CO molecules and ceria surface blockage by Cl, which both inhibit CO2 hydrogenation.For the first time, selective CO methanation over Ni(Cl)/CeO2 was studied for deep CO removal from formic acid derived hydrogen-rich gases characterized by high CO2 (40–50 vol%), low CO (30–1000 ppm) content and trace amounts of water. Composite Ni(Cl)/CeO2-η-Al2O3/FeCrAl wire mesh catalyst was demonstrated to be effective for this process at temperatures of 180–220°С, selectivity 30–70%, WHSV up to 200 L (STP)/(g∙h). The catalyst provides high process productivity, low pressure drop, uniform temperature distribution, and appears highly promising for the development of a compact CO cleanup reactor. Selective CO methanation was concluded to be a convenient way to CO-free hydrogen produced by formic acid decomposition. 相似文献
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《International Journal of Hydrogen Energy》2019,44(47):25730-25739
Methane reforming is the most important and economical process for hydrogen and syngas generation. In this work, the dynamic simulation of methane steam reforming in an industrial membrane reformer for synthesis gas production is developed. A novel deactivation model for commercial Ni-based catalysts is proposed and the monthly collected data from an existing reformer in a domestic methanol plant is used to optimize the model parameters. The plant data is also employed to check the model accuracy. It was observed that the membrane reformer could compensate for the catalyst deactivating effect.In order to assure the long membrane lifetime and decrease the unit price, the membrane reformer with 5 μm thick Pd on stainless steel supports is modeled at the temperature below the maximum operating temperature of Pd based membranes (around 600 °C). The dynamic modeling showed that the methane conversion of 76% could be achieved at a moderate temperature of 600 °C for an industrial membrane reformer. The cost-effective generation of syngas with an appropriate H2/CO ratio of 2.6 could be obtained by membrane reformer. This is while the conventional reformer exhibits a maximum conversation of 64 at 1200 °C challenging due to its high syngas ratio (3.7). On the other hand, the pure hydrogen from membrane reformer can supply part of the ammonia reactor feed in an adjacent ammonia plant. 相似文献
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Rita de Cássia Colman Luciana A. TorresAdriana F.F. de Lima Lucia G. Appel 《International Journal of Hydrogen Energy》2009
It is well known that CO depletion from the hydrogen is compulsory in order to avoid the poisoning of the anode electrocatalyst of the PEM fuel cell. Hydrogen generated by ethanol reforming contains CO and acetaldehyde. The latter can be decomposed on the electrocatalyst generating more CO. The decarbonylation and methanation reactions are proposed by this work in order to eliminate acetaldehyde and CO from the hydrogen stream. Our results show that Ru/Al2O3 is more active than Ni/SiO2 for the methanation reaction. These catalysts also promote the decarbonylation of acetaldehyde generating methane and CO, with Ni/SiO2 being much more active than the Ru catalyst. The performance of a double-bed reactor in the purification of hydrogen generated by ethanol reforming is described in this contribution. The first layer composed of Ni/SiO2 decomposes acetaldehyde producing methane and CO, which is then eliminated by the methanation reaction employing Ru/Al2O3 in the second layer. 相似文献
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Yazhen HaoXiaoze Du Lijun YangYinqi Shen Yongping Yang 《International Journal of Hydrogen Energy》2011,36(24):15611-15621
A micro-reactor with eight non-parallel channels is proposed to improve the performance of micro-channel steam reforming of methanol. The widths of some channels in the micro-reactor vary gradually along the reactor length direction. The Zn-Cr/CeO2-ZrO2 catalyst is coated in the reformer with a certain porosity and permeability. The effects of micro-reactor structures and catalyst-coated manners on several factors are studied, including temperature distributions, velocity distributions, reactant concentrations and the methanol conversion rate. The results indicate that such a structure with a certain entrance inclination angle and channel inclination angle guarantees flow distribution uniformity in each reforming channel. Flow distribution uniformity is conducive to the increase of the methanol conversion rate. Besides, in order to measure strengths and weaknesses of different catalyst-coated manners, a wall-coated reformer and a packed-bed reformer are studied respectively. It is found that compared to the packed-bed reformer, the temperature and the methanol conversion rate in wall-coated reformer are far higher. It is necessary to find an optimal catalyst thickness that is able to reduce the CO concentration because the catalyst thickness can affect CO concentration in the product gases indirectly. The optimal inclination angles and the catalyst thickness are proposed based on the simulating results. 相似文献
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The reforming of ethanol for hydrogen production was carried out in this study. The effects of ethanol supply rate, catalysts, O2/EtOH and different energy-saving approaches on the reforming temperature, H2 + CO (syngas) concentration and thermal efficiency were investigated. The results showed that the best H2 + CO concentration of 43.41% could be achieved by using rhodium (Rh), while the next best concentration of about 42.08% could be obtained using ruthenium (Ru). The results also showed that the conversion efficiency of ethanol, concentrations of H2 and CO, and the energy loss ratio could be improved by heat insulation and heat recycling; and the improvement in the reforming performance was greater by the Ru catalyst rather than by the Rh catalyst with the energy-saving approaches. The greatest improvement in hydrogen production was achieved when using the Ru catalyst with the addition of steam and heat recycling system under an O2/EtOH ratio of 0.625 and S/C ratio of 1.0. 相似文献
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《International Journal of Hydrogen Energy》2021,46(75):37583-37598
This paper is a numerical study about the catalyst morphology CuO/ZnO/Al2O3 effects on the hydrogen production from methanol steam reforming, for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PMEFC). The study is focused on the influences of the metal foam insert, catalyst layer segmentation, and metal foam as catalyst support on the reactor performance: hydrogen yield and methanol conversion. According to the carried simulations, it is found that these configurations improve the reformer performances compared to the continuous catalyst layer configuration. The insertion of metal foam increases the efficiency of up to 75.41% at 525 K. Also, at this reaction temperature, the segmentation of the catalyst layer in similar parts increases the reformer efficiency by 2.11%, 4.23%, 6.77%, and 8.6% for 2, 4, 8, and 16 identical parts, respectively. As well as, the metal foam as catalyst support is more efficient compared to the other configurations, the efficiency is equal to 64% at T = 495 k. 相似文献
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《International Journal of Hydrogen Energy》2022,47(68):29242-29254
Methanol steam reforming is able to produce hydrogen-rich syngas onsite for fuel cells and avoids the problems of hydrogen storage. Nevertheless, CO in the reformate needs to be further removed to ppm level before it can be fed into proton exchange membrane fuel cells. In this study, a methanol processing system consisting of a methanol reformer and two-stage preferential oxidation reactors is developed. The hydrogen production performance and scalability of the reformer are experimentally investigated under various operating conditions. The methanol reformer system shows stable methanol conversion rate and linearly increased H2 flow rate as the number of repeating unit increases. Methanol conversion rate of 96.8% with CO concentration of 1.78% are achieved in the scaled-up system. CO cleanup ability of the two-stage preferential oxidation reactors is experimentally investigated based on the reformate compositions by varying the operating temperature and O2 to CO ratios. The results demonstrate that the developed CO cleanup train can decrease the CO concentration from 1.6% to below 10 ppm, which meets the requirement of the fuel cell. Finally, stability of the integrated methanol processing system is tested for 180 h operation. 相似文献
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Optimization of tri-reformer reactor to produce synthesis gas for methanol production using differential evolution (DE) method 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
This paper presents a study on optimization of a fixed bed tri-reformer reactor (TR). This reactor has been used instead of conventional steam reformer (CSR) and auto thermal reformer (CAR). A theoretical investigation has been performed in order to evaluate the optimal operating conditions and enhancement of methane conversion, hydrogen production and desired H2/CO ratio as a synthesis gas for methanol production. A mathematical heterogeneous model has been used to simulate the reactor. The process performance under steady state conditions was analyzed with respect to key operational parameters (inlet temperature, O2/CH4, CO2/CH4 and steam/CH4 ratios). The influence of these parameters on gas temperature, methane conversion, hydrogen production and H2/CO ratio was investigated. Model validation was carried out by comparison of the reforming model results with industrial data of CSR. Differential evolution (DE) method was applied as a powerful method for optimization. Optimum feed temperature and reactant ratios (CH4/CO2/H2O/O2) are 1100 K and 1/1.3/2.46/0.47 respectively. The optimized TR has enhanced methane conversion by 3.8% relative to industrial reformers in a single reactor. Methane conversion, hydrogen yield and H2/CO ratio in optimized TR are 97.9%, 1.84 and 1.7 respectively. The optimization results of tri-reformer were compared with the corresponding predictions from process simulation software operated at the same feed conditions. 相似文献
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《International Journal of Hydrogen Energy》2023,48(64):24936-24950
Two series of Ru/C catalysts doped with lanthanum ions are prepared and studied in CO methanation in the H2-rich gas. The samples are characterized by N2 physisorption, TG-MS studies, XRD, XPS, TEM/STEM and CO chemisorption. Two graphitized carbons differing in surface area (115 and 80.6 m2/g) are used as supports. The average sizes of ruthenium crystallites deposited on their surfaces are 4.33 and 5.95 nm, respectively. The addition of the proper amount of La to the Ru/carbon catalysts leads to an above 20% increase in the catalytic activity along with stable CH4 selectivity higher than 99% at all temperatures. Simultaneously, lanthanum acts as the inhibitor of methanation of the carbon support under conditions of high temperature and hydrogen atmosphere. Such positive effects are achieved at a very low concentration of La in the prepared samples, a maximum 0.04 La/Ru (molar ratio). 0.01 mmol La introduced to the Ru/C system leads to 98% CO conversion at 270 °C. 相似文献