Investigation of Palladium Membrane Reactor Performance during Ethanol Steam Reforming using CFD Method
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K. Ghasemzadeh
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R. Zeynali
Abstract
The main purpose of present study is the analysis of dense palladium membrane reactor (MR) performance during ethanol steam reforming (ESR) reaction using computational fluid dynamic (CFD). To this aim, a two-dimensional and isothermal model based on CFD method was developed and results validation was tested by our experimental data achieved in ITM-CNR of Italy. In this work, Pd-based MR modeling was performed by using COMSOL-MULTIPHYSICS software. Regarding to model validation results, a good agreement was found between CFD model results and experimental data. Moreover, in this study, the effects of the some important operating parameters (reaction temperature and pressure) on the performance of Pd-based MR was studied in terms of ethanol conversion and hydrogen recovery. Concerning to simulation results, the CFD model presented velocity and pressure profiles in both side of MR and also compositions of various species in permeate and retentate streams. The simulation results indicated that the Pd-based MR has better performance with respect to traditional reactor (TR) in terms of the ethanol conversion, especially, at lower reaction temperatures and higher reactions pressures. As a consequence, CFD model results illustrated that Pd-based MR performance was improved by increasing the reaction pressure, while this parameter had negative effect on the TR performance. This result related to enhancement of hydrogen permeance through the palladium membrane by increasing the pressure gradient. Indeed, this shift effect can provide a higher ethanol conversion in lower temperatures in the Pd-based MR. In particular, 98% ethanol conversion and 37% hydrogen recovery was achieved at 350°C and 2 atm.
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- Frontmatter
- Editorial Note
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- Research Articles
- Molecular Perspective of Radionuclides Separation by Nanoporous Graphene Oxide Membrane
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- Performance Investigation of Membrane Process in Natural Gas sweeting by Membrane Process: Modeling Study
- Gas Separation in Nanoporous Graphene from Molecular Dynamics Simulation
- The Effect of Module Geometry on Heat and Mass Transfer in Membrane Distillation
- Experimental Study and Numerical Simulation of the Air Gap Membrane Distillation (AGMD) Process
- Multi-objective Optimization of Preparation Conditions of Asymmetric Polyetherimide Membrane for Prevaporation of Isopropanol
- Investigation of Palladium Membrane Reactor Performance during Ethanol Steam Reforming using CFD Method
- Designing Better Membrane Modules Using CFD
- Simulation of Membrane Gas Separation Process Using Aspen Plus® V8.6
- Numerical Simulation of Salt Water Passing Mechanism Through Nanoporous Single-Layer Graphene Membrane
- Facilitated Transport of Propylene Through Composite Polymer-Ionic Liquid Membranes. Mass Transfer Analysis
- CFD Simulation of Hydrogen Separation in Pd Hollow Fiber Membrane
- Numerical Study on Concentration Polarization for H2-N2 Separation through a Thin Pd Membrane by Using Computational Fluid Dynamics
