Journal
APPLIED ENERGY
Volume 177, Issue -, Pages 579-590Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.05.149
Keywords
Acetic acid; Acetone; Bio-oil; Fluidized bed; Hydrogen; Sorption enhanced steam reforming (SESR)
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- Spanish MINECO [ENE2014-53515-P]
- Principado de Asturias (PCTI) [GRUPIN14-079]
- Government of the Principado de Asturias (Severo Ochoa program)
- European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
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Hydrogen production by sorption enhanced steam reforming (SESR) of bio-oil model compounds was thermodynamically and experimentally studied by mixing acetic acid (AcH) and acetone (ACCO), in a fluidized bed reactor. In the SESR process the catalytic reforming reaction and CO2 removal by sorption were carried out simultaneously in a single reactor. The SESR of the model compounds and their blends was performed under atmospheric pressure over a Pd/Ni-Co hydrotalcite-like material (HT) catalyst using dolomite as CO2 sorbent. The effects of the reaction temperature (475-725 degrees C), steam/C molar ratio and weight hourly space velocity (WHSV) were studied. For the SESR of acetic acid, acetone and their blends it was observed that the H-2 yield and H-2 concentration increase as the temperature increases, reaching a maximum value, and then they decrease with the temperature. It was also found that the CH4 concentration, decreases as the temperature increases, while the CO and CO2 concentrations increase with the rise in temperature. High steam/C molar ratio values and low WHSV values favor the H-2 yield and H2 concentration, while they lead to a decrease in the CH4 concentration. Hydrogen purities as high as 99.2-99.4% with small amounts of methane, CO and CO2 were obtained for the SESR of the model compounds of bio-oil and their blends at a temperature of 575 degrees C at atmospheric pressure. The effect of temperature on the SESR of the blends of model compounds of bio-oil is similar to that of the individual model compounds studied, except in the fact that lower H-2 yield values are obtained by the SESR of the blends (83.3-88.6%) compared to the individual model compounds (90.2-95.9%), a decrease which becomes more noticeable as the proportion of acetone in the blend is increased. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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