Efficiency of hydrogen recovery from reformate with a polymer electrolyte hydrogen pump

AIChE Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1767-1779

  Abdulla, Ahmed ^a   Laney, Kathryn ^a   Padilla, Miriam ^a   Sundaresan, Sankaran ^a   Benziger, Jay ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide removal; Electrochemical separations; Hydrogen; Reformate purification

Indexed keywords

APPLIED POTENTIALS; CARBON DIOXIDE REMOVAL; CONCENTRATED CO; ELECTROCHEMICAL SEPARATION; HYDROGEN PUMP; HYDROGEN RECOVERY; MASS-TRANSPORT RESISTANCE; POLYMER ELECTROLYTE; POROUS GAS DIFFUSION ELECTRODES; REFORMATES; SINGLE STAGE; VOLTAGE PROFILE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; DIFFUSION IN GASES; HYDROGEN; POLYELECTROLYTES; POLYMERS; PUMPS; RECOVERY;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 79958711371     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.12406     Document Type: Article

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