Structural design of self-thermal methanol steam reforming microreactor with porous combustion reaction support for hydrogen production

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,sdg 7 - affordable and clean energy ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2100/2105
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Engineering (former - to 2024)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Emerging Technologies for Electric Vehicles (former - to 2024) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Energy Materials Laboratory
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	18 Sep 2020 00:31
Last Modified:	18 Jul 2025 03:32
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/76930
DOI:	10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.06.107

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