Elewuwa, Francis A. and Makkawi, Yassir T. (2015). Hydrogen production by steam reforming of DME in a large scale CFB reactor. Part I:computational model and predictions. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 40 (46), pp. 15865-15876.
Abstract
This study presents a computational fluid dynamic (CFD) study of Dimethyl Ether steam reforming (DME-SR) in a large scale Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) reactor. The CFD model is based on Eulerian-Eulerian dispersed flow and solved using commercial software (ANSYS FLUENT). The DME-SR reactions scheme and kinetics in the presence of a bifunctional catalyst of CuO/ZnO/Al2O3+ZSM-5 were incorporated in the model using in-house developed user-defined function. The model was validated by comparing the predictions with experimental data from the literature. The results revealed for the first time detailed CFB reactor hydrodynamics, gas residence time, temperature distribution and product gas composition at a selected operating condition of 300 °C and steam to DME mass ratio of 3 (molar ratio of 7.62). The spatial variation in the gas species concentrations suggests the existence of three distinct reaction zones but limited temperature variations. The DME conversion and hydrogen yield were found to be 87% and 59% respectively, resulting in a product gas consisting of 72 mol% hydrogen. In part II of this study, the model presented here will be used to optimize the reactor design and study the effect of operating conditions on the reactor performance and products.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2015.10.050 |
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Divisions: | College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > School of Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering > Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Energy and Bioproducts Research Institute (EBRI) |
Additional Information: | Copyright © 2015, The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Funding: EPSRC (Ref EP/J501797/1). |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | dimethyl ether,fluidized bed,hydrogen,modelling,steam reforming,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Fuel Technology,Condensed Matter Physics,Energy Engineering and Power Technology |
Publication ISSN: | 1879-3487 |
Last Modified: | 17 Dec 2024 08:10 |
Date Deposited: | 09 Feb 2016 15:40 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2015-12-14 |
Published Online Date: | 2015-10-31 |
Accepted Date: | 2015-10-08 |
Submitted Date: | 2015-06-08 |
Authors: |
Elewuwa, Francis A.
Makkawi, Yassir T. ( 0000-0003-4971-5878) |