Efficient conversion of thermal energy into hydrogen: Comparing two methods to reduce exergy losses in a sulfuric acid decomposition reactor

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 8500-8507

  Van Der Ham, Leen V ^a   Gross, Joachim ^a   Verkooijen, Ad ^a   Kjelstrup, Signe ^a,b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY PRODUCTION; EXERGY EFFICIENCIES; EXERGY LOSS; FUNCTIONAL OPTIMIZATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; OPTIMAL CONTROL THEORY; OPTIMAL TEMPERATURE PROFILE; OPTIMIZED DESIGNS; PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN; REACTOR DESIGNS; SULFURIC ACID DECOMPOSITION; THERMO CHEMICAL PROCESS; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION;

ACIDS; CONTROL THEORY; DESIGN; ENTROPY; EXERGY; HYDROGEN; SULFUR DETERMINATION; SULFURIC ACID; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 70349334115     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie801585e     Document Type: Article

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