Journal
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE
Volume 135, Issue -, Pages 393-402Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2015.02.012
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Microreactor; Hydrogen production; Methanol reforming; Modeling
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- Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering
- Agricultural Research Center at the Washington State University
- U.S. DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [DABT63-99-C-0039]
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A 3-D model is presented for a novel sub-watt packed bed reactor. The reactor uses an annular inlet flow combined with a radial flow packed bed reactor. The baseline reactor is compared to a reactor with multiple outlets and a reactor with 3 internal fins. Increasing the outlets from 1 to 4 may have improved flow distribution, but did not increase the performance. However, inserting fins allowed > 99% methanol conversion with approximately 30 K decrease in temperature with same inlet flow. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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