Performance assessment of high temperature water-gas-shift reaction for hydrogen generation and its purification in a membrane reactor/separator of hydrogen or of carbon dioxide
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Imed Eddi
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Lemnouer Chibane
Abstract
In the current work, the high temperature water gas shift reaction assessment for hydrogen generation and its purification was carried out in reactors integrating hydrogen or carbon dioxide perm-selective membranes. Indeed, the performance of the high temperature water gas shift reaction was analyzed under adiabatic conditions through a mathematical model developed for this purpose. The main results indicate that both membrane reactors provide under some conditions a complete carbon monoxide conversion. As a result the dual phase membrane presents a great separation capacity of carbon dioxide. This gives us the opportunity to obtain a high purity of hydrogen. Thus, it can be concluded that the concept of the membrane reactor that used for carbon dioxide separation could be a veritable competitor and a great promise candidate for replacing the Pd based membrane reactors which is used for hydrogen separation.
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Author contribution: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
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Research funding: None declared.
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Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.
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- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- CFD study of heat transfer effect on nanofluid of Newtonian and non-Newtonian type under vibration
- Performance assessment of high temperature water-gas-shift reaction for hydrogen generation and its purification in a membrane reactor/separator of hydrogen or of carbon dioxide
- Carbon dioxide utilization in methanol synthesis plant: process modeling
- Estimating fouling and hydraulic debottlenecking of a clarifier piping system in the expansion of a chemical manufacturing plant
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