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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Volume 34, Issue 22, Pages 9076-9086Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2009.09.002
Keywords
Hydrogen; Methane; Perovskite membranes; Pd-Ag membrane
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- HKU Strategic Research Fund
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Using biogas for hydrogen production via autothermal reforming (ATR) can potentially increase the energy conversion efficiency and correspondingly reduce environmental impact. The present study aimed to investigate the performance and characteristics of biogas ATR. A two-dimensional numerical model was developed based on the integration of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and chemical kinetics. The mass transport, chemical reactions and heat transfer can be analyzed simultaneously in the porous domain. The results show that the presence of CO2 in the feedstock will reduce the performance of the biogas ATR. The effects of operating and feeding conditions were examined and the optimal conditions were identified. operating the reformer with the steam-to-CH4 ratio (S/CH4) and air-to-CH4 ratio (A/CH4) equal to 0.5 and 2, respectively, can achieve high H-2 concentration, while operation with S/CH4 and A/CH4 equal to 4.5 and 2, respectively, can achieve high energy efficiency. The results also show that using either H-2 or O-2 membrane in the reformer can enhance the biogas autothermal reforming performance by producing high concentration of H-2 (40-65%) and solving the harmful hot spot problems. (C) 2009 Professor T. Nejat Veziroglu. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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