Journal
PARTICUOLOGY
Volume 49, Issue -, Pages 55-64Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.partic.2019.05.004
Keywords
Fluidized-bed reactor model; CO2 methanation; NiMgW catalyst; Reaction kinetics; Sensitivity analysis
Funding
- National Research Foundation (NRF), Prime Minister's Office, Singapore under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) program [NRF2017-ITS002-013]
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The reduction of carbon dioxide to methane by hydrogen (CO2 methanation) using renewable energy is a promising process for recycling CO2. Better catalysts and better reactors are both required for the practical application of CO(2 )methanation. This study examines how the operating parameters affect CO(2 )methanation in a highly efficient fluidized-bed reactor. We first measured the kinetics of the CO2 methanation reaction using an NiMgW catalyst, which has been reported to exhibit superior catalytic performance. We then developed a fluidized-bed reactor model based on an earlier model for CO2 methanation. The fluidized bed model indicated that the NiMgW was indeed superior to two other previously studied catalysts in terms of faster conversion of reactants and higher concentrations of product CH4 throughout the reactor. The overall rate of production of CH4 increased with temperature and H-2/CO2 ratio and decreased as the inlet reactant flow rate, catalyst particle diameter, and catalyst particle sphericity increased. (C) 2019 Chinese Society of Particuology and Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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