Hydrogen production by steam methane reforming in a membrane reactor equipped with a Pd composite membrane deposited on a porous stainless steel
- Authors
- Kim, Chang-Hyun; Han, Jae-Yun; Kim, Sehwa; Lee, Boreum; Lim, Hankwon; Lee, Kwan-Young; Ryi, Shin-Kun
- Issue Date
- 12-4월-2018
- Publisher
- PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
- Keywords
- Steam methane reforming; Membrane reactor; Pd-based composite membrane; Hydrogen; Stability; Process simulation
- Citation
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY, v.43, no.15, pp.7684 - 7692
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
- Volume
- 43
- Number
- 15
- Start Page
- 7684
- End Page
- 7692
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/76146
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2017.11.176
- ISSN
- 0360-3199
- Abstract
- With the aim of producing hydrogen at low cost and with a high conversion efficiency, steam methane reforming (SMR) was carried out under moderate operating conditions in a Pd-based composite membrane reactor packed with a commercial Ru/Al2O3 catalyst. A Pd-based composite membrane with a thickness of 4-5 mu m was prepared on a tubular stainless steel support (diameter of 12.7 mm, length of 450 mm) using electroless plating (ELP). The Pd-based composite membrane had a hydrogen permeance of 2.4 x 10(-3) mol m(-1) s(-1) Pa-0.5 and an H-2/N-2 selectivity of 618 at a temperature of 823 K and a pressure difference of 10.1 kPa. The SMR test was conducted at 823 K with a steam-to-carbon ratio of 3.0 and gas hourly space velocity of 1000 h(-1); increasing the pressure difference resulted in enhanced methane conversion, which reached 82% at a pressure difference of 912 kPa. To propose a guideline for membrane design, a process simulation was conducted for conversion enhancement as a function of pressure difference using Aspen HYSYS (R). A stability test for SMR was conducted for similar to 120 h; the methane conversion, hydrogen production rate, and gas composition were monitored. During the SMR test, the carbon monoxide concentration in the total reformed stream was <1%, indicating that a series of water gas shift reactors was not needed in our membrane reactor system. (C) 2017 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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