INVESTIGADORES
LABORDE Miguel Angel
artículos
Título:
Hydrogen Production from Ethanol Steam Reforming: Fixed Bed Reactor Design
Autor/es:
P. GIUNTA, N. AMADEO, M. LABORDE
Revista:
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL REACTOR ENGINEERING
Editorial:
BERKELEY ELECTRONIC PRESS
Referencias:
Lugar: Ontario; Año: 2008 vol. V6 p. 1 - 16
ISSN:
1542-6580
Resumen:
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 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. It was also observed that this process is determined by heat transfer.
