Thermocatalytic hydrogen production from the methane in a fluidized bed with activated carbon catalyst
- Authors
- Lee, KK; Han, GY; Yoon, KJ; Lee, BK
- Issue Date
- 2004-09-01
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
- Citation
- CATALYSIS TODAY, v.93-5, pp.81 - 86
- Abstract
- A fluidized bed reactor made of quartz with 0.055 m i.d. and 0.65 m in height was employed for the thermocatalytic decomposition of methane to produce CO2 free hydrogen. The fluidized bed reactor was proposed in order to overcome the reactor plugging problem due to carbon deposition, which was resulted in the shut-down of the fixed bed reactor system. Several kinds of activated carbons were employed as the catalyst to examine the reaction activity. The experimental results in this study were compared with that of fixed bed reactor. The reaction rate and deactivation of carbon catalyst were similar to that of lab scale fixed bed reactor system. The deactivation due to carbon deposition was verified with the SEM images of fresh and used carbon catalysts. The effects of gas velocity, reaction temperature and particle size on the reaction rates were also investigated. From the experimental results of this study, the optimum operating conditions for fluidized bed were also determined. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
- Keywords
- DECOMPOSITION; DECARBONIZATION; DECOMPOSITION; DECARBONIZATION; hydrogen; thermocatalytic decomposition; activated carbon; fluidized bed reactor; methane
- ISSN
- 0920-5861
- URI
- https://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/137243
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.cattod.2004.06.080
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- KIST Article > 2004
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