Zheng, Tianqing, Zhou, Wei, Li, Xinying, You, Huihui, Yang, Yifan, Yu, Wei, Zhang, Chenying, Chu, Xuyang, San Hui, Kwan and Ding, Weihua (2020) Structural design of self-thermal methanol steam reforming microreactor with porous combustion reaction support for hydrogen production. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 45 (43). pp. 22437-22447. ISSN 0360-3199

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Abstract

To replace the traditional electric heating mode and increase methanol steam reforming reaction performance in hydrogen production, methanol catalytic combustion was proposed as heat-supply mode for methanol steam reforming microreactor. In this study, the methanol catalytic combustion microreactor and self-thermal methanol steam reforming microreactor for hydrogen production were developed. Furthermore, the catalytic combustion reaction supports with different structures were designed. It was found that the developed self-thermal methanol steam reforming microreactor had better reaction performance. Compared with A-type, the △Tmax of C-type porous reaction support was decreased by 24.4 °C under 1.3 mL/min methanol injection rate. Moreover, methanol conversion and H2 flow rate of the self-thermal methanol steam reforming microreactor with C-type porous reaction support were increased by 15.2% under 10 mL/h methanol-water mixture injection rate and 340 °C self-thermal temperature. Meanwhile, the CO selectivity was decreased by 4.1%. This work provides a new structural design of the self-thermal methanol steam reforming microreactor for hydrogen production for the fuel cell.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	microreactor for hydrogen production,porous reaction support,self-thermal reaction,thermal distribution,renewable energy, sustainability and the environment,fuel technology,condensed matter physics,energy engineering and power technology ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2100/2105
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Date Deposited:	18 Sep 2020 00:31
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2020 23:55
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/76930
DOI:	10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.06.107

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