Affiliation:
1. Deptarment of Mechanical Engineering , National Chung Hsing University , Taichung City 40227, Taiwan
Abstract
Abstract
The hydrogen removal and carbon formation effects in dense palladium (Pd)-based membrane reactors for dry reforming of methane (DRM) performance is numerically analyzed in this study. The steady-state membrane reactor operation is described using a three-dimensional, heterogeneous, non-isothermal mathematical model. Based on the numerical simulation results for reaction temperature and pressure varied in the 400–600 °C and 1–30 atm ranges, methane conversion and hydrogen yield were found enhanced using the membrane reactor. However, carbon formation, which affects catalyst activity and limits the benefits of using a membrane reactor is also enhanced. A parametric study using reaction pressure as the primary parameter for the membrane reactor operation found that the CH4 conversion, hydrogen yield, H2 recovery, and carbon formation can be enhanced by increasing the reaction temperature, inlet CO2/CH4 ratio, and sweep gas flow rate. With the enhanced H2 removal, carbon formation is also enhanced. Because membrane permeance is inversely proportional to the membrane thickness, membrane thickness can be used as a parameter to control the carbon formation under given operating conditions.
Subject
General Chemical Engineering
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