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Butanol reforming: an overview on recent developments and future aspects

  • Brajesh Kumar

    Brajesh Kumar is currently pursuing a PhD in Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. He earned his Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (India) and his Bachelor’s degree from Uttar Pradesh Technical University (India). He is primarily interested in modeling and simulation of chemical engineering systems. His other area of interest is wastewater treatment. He has published three research papers in peer-reviewed journals, three research papers in international conferences, and one book chapter.

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    , Shashi Kumar

    Shashi Kumar is currently Professor of Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. After obtaining BE, ME, and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering from erstwhile University of Roorkee (now I.I.T. Roorkee), she served as a process design consultant to process engineering companies and also worked on several R&D projects related to renewable energy. She has 65 research papers to her credit in peer-reviewed journals in fields such as membrane separation processes, modeling and simulation, and chemical reaction engineering. She teaches these subjects to undergraduate and postgraduate students and has guided doctoral research work of more than 10 students. She is a Senior Member of AIChE.

    and Surendra Kumar

    Surendra Kumar worked at I.I.T. Roorkee, India, for the last 41 years in various capacities, retired as Professor in 2013, and thereafter continued as Emeritus Fellow until June 2016. He also served as the Institute’s Dean for Academic Research (2010–2012). He obtained his PhD from the Institute of Technical Chemistry, University of Hannover, Germany, in 1985. He supervised the research work of more than 25 doctoral students in research fields, namely, mathematical modeling of chemical engineering systems, reaction engineering, renewable energy, and numerical methods and simulation, and published extensively in these areas. He is Associate Editor of the journal Chemical Product and Process Modeling.

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Abstract

Recently, hydrogen is utilized by numerous chemical industries as an alternate over non-renewable fuels, and surely it will be considered as an important fuel in the near future. This paper reports a review of various reforming technologies for hydrogen production from butanol produced by fermentation of feedstocks like wheat, sugar beets, sugar cane, etc. with a number of aspects involving selection of an appropriate catalyst to suppress undesirable products as many reforming reactions are dependent on the catalyst properties to enhance the formation of significant fuels which may fulfill the future energy needs. An overview of butanol reforming processes with experimental and theoretical studies in order to grasp possibilities and restrictions of these processes is not comprehensively presented yet. In this paper, an assessment of published articles in brief related to essential parameters to carry out a pertinent research in the future is presented for the advancement of fuel processing technologies.

About the authors

Brajesh Kumar

Brajesh Kumar is currently pursuing a PhD in Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. He earned his Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (India) and his Bachelor’s degree from Uttar Pradesh Technical University (India). He is primarily interested in modeling and simulation of chemical engineering systems. His other area of interest is wastewater treatment. He has published three research papers in peer-reviewed journals, three research papers in international conferences, and one book chapter.

Shashi Kumar

Shashi Kumar is currently Professor of Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. After obtaining BE, ME, and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering from erstwhile University of Roorkee (now I.I.T. Roorkee), she served as a process design consultant to process engineering companies and also worked on several R&D projects related to renewable energy. She has 65 research papers to her credit in peer-reviewed journals in fields such as membrane separation processes, modeling and simulation, and chemical reaction engineering. She teaches these subjects to undergraduate and postgraduate students and has guided doctoral research work of more than 10 students. She is a Senior Member of AIChE.

Surendra Kumar

Surendra Kumar worked at I.I.T. Roorkee, India, for the last 41 years in various capacities, retired as Professor in 2013, and thereafter continued as Emeritus Fellow until June 2016. He also served as the Institute’s Dean for Academic Research (2010–2012). He obtained his PhD from the Institute of Technical Chemistry, University of Hannover, Germany, in 1985. He supervised the research work of more than 25 doctoral students in research fields, namely, mathematical modeling of chemical engineering systems, reaction engineering, renewable energy, and numerical methods and simulation, and published extensively in these areas. He is Associate Editor of the journal Chemical Product and Process Modeling.

Acknowledgments

The authors express their gratitude to the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, New Delhi, for providing financial support for this work.

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Received: 2016-9-29
Accepted: 2016-12-9
Published Online: 2017-1-26
Published in Print: 2017-12-20

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