Hydrogen Production from Ethanol Steam Reforming over Ni-Cu/ZnO Catalyst

2011 ◽  
Vol 236-238 ◽  
pp. 1067-1072
Author(s):  
Li Ping Liu ◽  
Xiao Jian Ma ◽  
Peng Zhang ◽  
Ya Nan Liu

Hydrogen production by ethanol steam reforming over Ni-Cu/ZnO catalyst in the temperatures range of 250-550°C was studied on a fixed bed reactor. The effects of reaction temperature and water/ethanol molar ratio on hydrogen production were investigated. The structure and surface characteristics of the catalyst were measured by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and differential thermal analyzer (TG-DSC). The results show that the Ni-Cu/ZnO catalyst has good catalytic performance with higher hydrogen yield of 4.87molH2/molEtOH reacted. A comparison of hydrogen production from ethanol steam reforming over Ni-Cu/ZnO catalyst with over a commercial catalyst was made in this paper.

2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukman Hakim ◽  
Zahira Yaakob ◽  
Manal Ismail ◽  
Wan Daud ◽  
Ratna Sari

AbstractHydroxyapatite-supported Ni-Ce-Cu catalysts were synthesised and tested to study their potential for use in the steam reforming of glycerol to produce hydrogen. The catalysts were prepared by the deposition-precipitation method with variable nickel, cerium, and copper loadings. The performance of the catalysts was evaluated in terms of hydrogen yield at 600°C in a tubular fixed-bed microreactor. All catalysts were characterised by the BET surface area, XRD, TPR, TEM, and FE-SEM techniques. The reaction time was 240 min in a fixed-bed reactor at 600°C and atmospheric pressure with a water-to-glycerol feed molar ratio of 8: 1. It was found that the Ni-Ce-Cu (3 mass %-7.5 mass %-7.5 mass %) hydroxyapatite-supported catalyst afforded the highest hydrogen yield (57.5 %), with a glycerol conversion rate of 97.3 %. The results indicate that Ni/Ce/Cu/hydroxyapatite has great potential as a catalyst for hydrogen production by steam reforming of glycerol.


2014 ◽  
Vol 699 ◽  
pp. 504-509
Author(s):  
Hafizah Abdul Halim Yun ◽  
Ramli Mat ◽  
Tuan Amran Tuan Abdullah ◽  
Mahadhir Mohamed ◽  
Anwar Johariand Asmadi Ali

The study focuses on hydrogen production via glycerol steam reforming over copper and nickel loaded on HZSM-5 zeolite based catalyst. The catalysts were prepared by using different loading amount of copper (0-10wt%) and nickel (0-10wt%) on HZSM-5 zeolite catalysts through wet impregnation method and was characterized by X-Ray Diffraction (XRD). The performances of catalysts were evaluated in terms of glycerol conversion and hydrogen production at 500°C using 6:1 of water to glycerol molar ratio (WGMR) in a tubular fixed bed reactor. All the catalysts had achieved more than 85% of glycerol conversion except that of 5%Cu loaded on HZSM-5 catalyst. The addition of nickel into 5% Cu/HZSM-5 catalyst had increased the hydrogen yield. Similar trend was observed when copper was added into Ni/HZSM-5 catalyst but using copper loaded on HZSM-5 alone was unable to produce hydrogen compared to using nickel catalyst alone. It showed that copper acted as a promoter for hydrogen production. It was established that a 5wt% of Cu with 10wt% of Ni loaded on HZSM-5 catalyst showed significant improvement in terms of hydrogen yield and gaseous product compositions at selected operating conditions.


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.


2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (34) ◽  
pp. 11547-11553 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Belén Menendez ◽  
Cecilia Graschinsky ◽  
Norma E. Amadeo

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.L. Contreras ◽  
M.A. Ortiz ◽  
R. Luna ◽  
G.A. Fuentes ◽  
M. Autié ◽  
...  

An stabilization effect of WOx over the Pt/hydrotalcite catalysts to produce H2 by ethanol steam reforming at low concentration was studied. The catalysts were characterized by N2 physisorption, X-ray diffraction, Infrared (IR), and UV-vis spectroscopy. The catalytic tests were made in a fixed bed reactor. The catalysts showed porous with the shape of parallel layers with a monomodal mesoporous distribution. By IR spectroscopy it was found superficial chemical such as: -OH, H2O, Al-OH, Mg-OH, and CO32-. The reaction products were; H2, CO2, CH3CHO, CH4 and C2H4. These catalysts did not produce CO and showed low selectivity to C2H4. By XRD we found that catalysts having Pt and the lowest W concentration showed the highest crystallinity and the highest stability during the reaction of ethanol steam reforming. A possible thermal stabilization effect of W in the hydrotalcite crystal structure leading to prevent the Pt sintering is proposed. By IR the hydrotalcite hydroxil groups coordinated with Mg and Al decreased by the presence of WOx. We found that catalysts with low W concentration and Pt having high crystallinity showed the highest stability after ethanol steam reforming. It could be a possible thermal stabilization effect of W in the hydrotalcite crystal structure leading to prevent the Pt sintering.


2012 ◽  
Vol 550-553 ◽  
pp. 558-562
Author(s):  
Qi Wang ◽  
Long Guo ◽  
Xin Bao Li

Ethanol was selected as a model compound of bio-oil. Pd/HZSM-5 catalyst with 5%wt Pd was prepared by wet impregnation method. The steam reforming experiment for hydrogen production was carried out on a fixed bed reactor. The carbon conversion, carbon selectivity of product gas and H2 yield was calculated according the experimental resultsl. It has been found that the best performance was obtained at T=700°C, S/C=9.2 and GC1HSV=346h-1. At this condition, the hydrogen yield and potential hydrogen yield can be as high as 58.1% and 84.3%. The results show that the addition of Pd to HZSM-5 can improve the reforming performance and increase the hydrogen yield.


Catalysts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 575
Author(s):  
Łukasz Hamryszak ◽  
Maria Kulawska ◽  
Maria Madej-Lachowska ◽  
Michał Śliwa ◽  
Katarzyna Samson ◽  
...  

The application of copper-based catalysts in the production of pure hydrogen in the steam reforming of ethanol was performed. The tricomponent Cu/Zr catalysts with about 4 mass% addition of nickel, cobalt, or cerium have been prepared in our laboratory. The properties of obtained catalysts were compared with bimetallic Cu/Zr catalyst prepared and tested according to the same procedure. Catalytic tests were carried out in the continuous flow fixed–bed reactor in the wide temperature range of 433–593 K for initial molar ratio of ethanol to water equal to 1:3. Catalysts were characterized by XRD, TPR, CO2–TPD, and TPO methods. Cu/Zr/Ce catalyst proved to be the best; hydrogen yield reached the value of 400 L/(kgcat.∙h), selectivity towards carbon monoxide was below 0.5% and the one towards methane wasnot detected. Additions of Ni or Co did not bring significant improvement in activity.


2008 ◽  
Vol 591-593 ◽  
pp. 734-739 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.S. Bergamaschi ◽  
F.M.S. Carvalho

Ethanol reforming process to produce hydrogen rich-gas stream is performed using Cu/Ni catalyst supported on zirconia and alumina microspheres prepared by hydrolysis method. Theses catalysts were tested in a fixed-bed reactor system employing steam reforming of ethanol. The operating temperature was 550°C and water/ethanol feed ratio 3/1. Although all catalysts were very active for ethanol conversion and very selective towards the desired products, but that one supported on zirconia microspheres was produced slightly better results. The data reveal high activity of the Cu/Ni/ZrO2 catalyst for ethanol steam reforming and presented a good selectivity for H2.


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