H2 production with low carbon content via MSR in packed bed membrane reactors for high-temperature polymeric electrolyte membrane fuel cell

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2017

Authors

P. Ribeirinha (Author) FEUP; M. Abdollahzadeh (Author) FEUP; M. Boaventura (Author) FEUP; A. Mendes (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: Applied Energy

Vol. 188

Pages: 409-419

ISSN: 0306-2619

Publisher: Elsevier

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BeingEnergy - Integrated low temperature methanol steam reforming and high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell

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Authenticus ID: P-00M-G4K

DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.12.015

Abstract (EN): This work compares the hydrogen purity and recovery produced by a methanol steam reforming (MSR) packed bed membrane reactor (PBMR) equipped with a membrane selective to hydrogen (Pd-Ag) and with a membrane selective to carbon dioxide (porous membrane filled with ionic liquids-ILs). A 3- dimensional non-isothermal PBMR model was developed in Fluent (AnsysTM) for simulating a PBMR equipped with these two types of membranes and simulating a conventional packed bed reactor (PBR). For the development PBMR models a MSR mechanistic kinetic model was fitted to experimental reaction rates of a commercial catalyst (BASF RP60). The results indicated that selective hydrogen removal from the reaction medium originates a significant increase in the methanol conversion, while the carbon dioxide removal has a smaller effect. CO2-PBMR showed to be more efficient in terms of energy consumption than H2-PMBR. The simulation results showed also that ILs membranes must have a minimum permeance of P1 x 106 mol s1 m2 Pa1 and CO2/H2 selectivity of P200 at 473 K to be attractive for this type of applications. The advantages and limitations of each reactor configuration are discussed based on experimental and simulated data.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 11