Ethanol steam reforming thermally coupled with fuel combustion in a parallel plate reactor

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4143-4151

  Lopez, Eduardo ^a,b   Gepert, Vanessa ^a   Gritsch, Achim ^a   Nieken, Ulrich ^a   Eigenberger, Gerhart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b PLAPIQUI UNS CONICET   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL CONCENTRATION PROFILES; CATALYTIC SYSTEM; CHANNEL LENGTH; ETHANOL CONVERSION; ETHANOL STEAM REFORMING; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FOLDED PLATES; FUEL COMBUSTION; GLOBAL KINETICS; HYDROGEN COMBUSTION; HYDROGEN SELECTIVITY; ISOTHERMAL CONDITIONS; METALLIC STRUCTURES; OPERATING CONDITION; OPERATING VARIABLES; OPERATION TEMPERATURE; PARALLEL PLATE REACTORS; PARALLEL PLATES; PD-BASED CATALYST; PROOF OF CONCEPT; REACTOR MODELING; REACTOR PERFORMANCE; REFORMATES; STEAM-TO-CARBON RATIO; THERMAL COUPLING;

ALDEHYDES; BYPRODUCTS; CARBON MONOXIDE; COMBUSTION; ETHANOL; HYDROGEN; METHANE; STEAM REFORMING;

COUPLED CIRCUITS;

EID: 84858788691     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie202364y     Document Type: Article

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