CFD Simulation of Hydrogen Separation in Pd Hollow Fiber Membrane
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Zahra Mansourpour
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Hooman Ziaei-Halimejani
Abstract
In this article, hydrogen adsorption from gas mixture involve nitrogen and hydrogen by palladium hollow fiber membrane investigated and two dimensional model proposed for hydrogen adsorption in this model. This model has been evaluated based on equations (momentum and mass transfer) in all three parts (shell, membrane and tube) for existing gaseous compounds with using finite element method. The results of simulation validated by experimental data of hydrogen adsorption by palladium hollow fiber membrane. Modeling predictions shows good agreement with experimental data at different operating conditions such as different gas flows, temperature, pressure and etc. the result of simulation shows hydrogen separation efficiency increases with increasing temperature and pressure and decreases with increasing inlet rate. Also with using this model better performance of hollow fiber membranes can be obtained. In fact, hollow fiber membrane can be designed at different conditions and for different rates that it can save cost of various tests.
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- Frontmatter
- Editorial Note
- Editorial Special Issue: Selected Extended Papers from the 12th International Conference on Membrane Science and Technology (MST2015) Symposium on Modeling and Simulation
- Research Articles
- Molecular Perspective of Radionuclides Separation by Nanoporous Graphene Oxide Membrane
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- Mathematical Modeling of Natural Gas Separation Using Hollow Fiber Membrane Modules by Application of Finite Element Method through Statistical Analysis
- Modelling Study of Palladium Membrane Reactor Performance during Methan Steam Reforming using CFD Method
- 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
