...Toshio Shinoki; Masaaki Kamizono; Koshi Katagiri; Masaki Kusumi; Yasuyoshi Takeda; Hirochika Tanigawa; Katsuya Hirata The authors develop a small and simple steam-reforming reactor in a home-use size for such various heavy-hydrocarbons fuels as n-octane, n-decane, n-tetradecane, and n-hexadecane...

.... This paper focuses on simulation of transient characteristics of CHER during the initial phase of start-up of small SOFC systems. Steam reforming (SR) and water-gas shift (WGS) reactions are chosen as the most appropriate reforming model. CHER is modeled as two-dimensional array of finite control volumes...

.... However, despite the ease of methanol handling, impurities in the reformate gas produced from methanol steam reforming can affect the performance and durability of fuel cells. In this paper different vapor delivery systems, intended to assist in the study of the effects of some of the impurities...

...Joonguen Park; Joongmyeon Bae This paper studies the heat and mass transfer characteristics in a steam reforming reactor using numerical simulation and investigates the operating parameters for effective hydrogen production. Simultaneous analysis of governing equations and chemical reaction...

... ,” Chem. Eng. Sci. 0009-2509 , 57 ( 10 ), pp. 1665 – 1677 . 10.1016/S0009-2509(02)00058-1 Laosiripojana , N. , and Assabumrungrat , S. , 2007 , “ Catalytic Steam Reforming of Methane, Methanol, and Ethanol Over Ni/YSZ: The Possible Use of These Fuels in Internal Reforming SOFC ,” J...

... reforming process, which is state of the art for natural gas applications. Using a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell requires a complex gas cleanup system. Using a pressurized steam reforming process offers a significant reduction of the whole system size by efficiently compressing the liquid educts...

... methanol conversion than the packed-bed reactor. The packed-bed configuration is subject to heat transfer limitation during the steam reforming of methanol and has large temperature gradients in a packed-bed reactor. On the other hand, the microreformer having a catalyst layer is free from heat and mass...

...Antonio Carlos Caetano de Souza; José Luz-Silveira; Maria Isabel Sosa Steam reforming is the most usual method of hydrogen production due to its high production efficiency and technological maturity. The use of ethanol for this purpose is an interesting option because it is a renewable...

... economy losses exergy solid oxide fuel cell steam reforming hydrogen production energy analysis exergy analysis Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Interest in hydrogen as a fuel has grown...