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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Volume 48, Issue 68, Pages 26475-26491Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.03.357
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Modelling; CO 2 capture; Hydrogen production; Sorption enhanced reforming; Adiabatic reactor
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In this study, methane sorption enhanced reforming (SER) is investigated as a promising route for blue H2 production. A 1-D dynamic heterogeneous model is developed to evaluate the thermal behavior of a fixed bed reactor under adiabatic conditions. The effects of feed gas temperature, initial bed temperature, and bed thermal capacity on the process performances are studied.
Methane sorption enhanced reforming (SER) is investigated in this work as a promising route for blue H2 production. A 1-D dynamic heterogeneous model is developed to evaluate the thermal behavior of a fixed bed reactor under adiabatic conditions. The heterogeneous model allows to decouple the feed gas temperature from the initial solid one in order to investigate the behavior of the reforming step in a temperature swing reforming/regeneration process. The effects of the feed gas temperature, the initial bed temperature, and the bed thermal capacity are studied by evaluating the global impact of each parameter through a set of key performance indices (CH4 conversion, H2 yield and purity, carbon capture ratio) calculated as integrals over the duration of the reforming step. The results highlight the minor effect of the initial bed temperature on the process performances showing the potential of minimizing the extent of a cooling step between regeneration and reforming stages. Besides, due to the endothermic nature of the methane sorption enhanced reforming process at high temperatures, thermal energy must be provided to the SER process to achieve high CH4 conversion and high carbon capture ratio. This can be made either in the form of high feed temperature or by utilizing the energy stored in the bed benefiting from the bed thermal capacity. & COPY; 2023 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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