- Title
- Hydrogen enrichment of fuels using a novel miniaturised chemical looping steam reformer
- Creator
- Moghtaderi, Behdad
- Relation
- Chemical Engineering Research & Design Vol. 90, Issue 1A, p. 19-25
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cherd.2011.06.012
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- Experiments were conducted on the Fe₃O₄/FeO metal oxide system under pure methane and pure steam environments in a thermogravimetric analyser (TGA) and a prototype-miniaturised micro-reactor. Experimental results show that during a typical fuel oxidation step the concentration of methane in the product gas stream gradually decreases while Fe₃O₄ is being reduced to FeO. However, on or about a fractional conversion of 60% the slope of the CH₄ plot sharply increases due to catalytic effects of FeO on methane decomposition. Similarly, the H₂ plot associated with steam reforming step picks up rapidly and reaches a maximum of 98% at a fractional conversion of 30%. The conversion times of steam and fuel in the micro-reactor were generally shorter than conversion times obtained in the TGA system. The experimental results provided two vital pieces of information: (i) the chemical looping steam reforming cycle is technically viable, and (ii) the performance of the process at micro-scales needs to be further understood before high throughput miniaturised reformers could be designed and built.
- Subject
- chemical looping steam reforming; microfluidics
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1327278
- Identifier
- uon:25624
- Identifier
- ISSN:0263-8762
- Language
- eng
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