Rational design of ethanol steam reforming catalyst based on analysis of Ni/La2O3 metal–support interactions

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 3449-3456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jyong-Yue Liu ◽  
Wei-Nien Su ◽  
John Rick ◽  
Sheng-Chiang Yang ◽  
Chun-Jern Pan ◽  
...  

Ni/La2O3 nanocatalyst with strong interactions, compared to Ni/SiO2, generated higher H2 yield by suppressing the methanation reaction and coke deposition.

2014 ◽  
Vol 145 (2) ◽  
pp. 549-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Nichele ◽  
Michela Signoretto ◽  
Francesco Pinna ◽  
Elena Ghedini ◽  
Matteo Compagnoni ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 340 ◽  
pp. 321-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylwia Turczyniak ◽  
Detre Teschner ◽  
Andrzej Machocki ◽  
Spyridon Zafeiratos

Processes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Cristina Pizzolitto ◽  
Federica Menegazzo ◽  
Elena Ghedini ◽  
Arturo Martínez Arias ◽  
Vicente Cortés Corberán ◽  
...  

Ethanol steam reforming is one of the most promising ways to produce hydrogen from biomass, and the goal of this research is to investigate robust, selective and active catalysts for this reaction. In particular, this work is focused on the effect of the different ceria support preparation methods on the Ni active phase stabilization. Two synthetic approaches were evaluated: precipitation (with urea) and microemulsion. The effects of lanthanum doping were investigated too. All catalysts were characterized using N2-physisorption, temperature programmed reduction (TPR), XRD and SEM, to understand the influence of the synthetic approach on the morphological and structural features and their relationship with catalytic properties. Two synthesis methods gave strongly different features. Catalysts prepared by precipitation showed higher reducibility (which involves higher oxygen mobility) and a more homogeneous Ni particle size distribution. Catalytic tests (at 500 °C for 5 h using severe Gas Hourly Space Velocity conditions) revealed also different behaviors. Though the initial conversion (near complete) and H2 yield (60%, i.e., 3.6 mol H2/mol ethanol) were the same, the catalyst prepared by microemulsion was deactivated much faster. Similar trends were found for La-promoted supports. Catalyst deactivation was mainly related to coke deposition as was shown by SEM of the used samples. Higher reducibility of the catalysts prepared by the precipitation method led to a decrease in coke deposition rate by facilitating the removal of coke precursors, which made them the more stable catalysts of the reaction.


Membranes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 332
Author(s):  
Ludmilla Bobrova ◽  
Nikita Eremeev ◽  
Nadezhda Vernikovskaya ◽  
Vladislav Sadykov ◽  
Oleg Smorygo

The performance of catalytic membrane reactors (CMRs) depends on the specific details of interactions at different levels between catalytic and separation parts. A clear understanding of decisive factors affecting their operational parameters can be provided via mathematical simulations. In the present paper, main results of numerical studies of ethanol steam reforming, followed by downstream hydrogen permeation through an asymmetric supported membrane, are reported. The membrane module consists of a thin selective layer supported on a substrate with graded porous structure. One-dimensional isothermal reaction–transport model for the CMR has been developed, and its validation has been carried out by using performance data from a lab-scale reactor with a disk-shaped membrane. Simulations demonstrate the model’s capabilities to analyze local concentrations gradients, as required to provide accurate estimates of the relationship between structure–property–performance. It was shown that transport properties of multilayer asymmetric membranes are highly related to the structural properties of each single layer.


2012 ◽  
Vol 78 (787) ◽  
pp. 415-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshio SHINOKI ◽  
Tsuyoshi MAEDA ◽  
Jiro FUNAKI ◽  
Katsuya HIRATA

Author(s):  
Pablo Giunta ◽  
Norma Amadeo ◽  
Miguel Laborde

The aim of this work is to design an ethanol steam reformer to produce a hydrogen stream capable of feeding a 60 kW PEM fuel cell applying the plug flow model, considering the presence of the catalyst bed (heterogeneous model). The Dusty-Gas Model is employed for the catalyst, since it better predicts the fluxes of a multicomponent mixture. Moreover, this model has shown to be computationally more robust than the Fickian Model. A power law-type kinetics was used. Results showed that it is possible to carry out the ethanol steam reforming in a compact device (1.66 x 10 -5 to 5.27 x 10 -5 m3). It was also observed that this process is determined by heat transfer.


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