A sodium borohydride hydrogen generation reactor for stationary applications: Experimental and reactor simulation studies

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 84, Issue , 2012, Pages 70-79

  Sousa, T ^a   Fernandes, V R ^a   Pinto, P J R ^a   Slavkov, Y ^b   Bosukov, L ^b   Rangel, C M ^a  

^a LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE ENERGIA E GEOLOGIA   (Portugal)

^b Labtech Ltd   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Hydrogen storage; Hydrolysis; Kinetics; Modelling; Numerical simulation; Sodium borohydride

Indexed keywords

CATALYST SURFACES; COMMERCIAL SOLVERS; FIRST-ORDER; HYDROGEN GENERATIONS; HYDROLYSIS REACTION; INTEGRAL METHOD; KINETIC BEHAVIOUR; KINETIC MODELS; KINETIC STUDY; LANGMUIR-HINSHELWOOD; LANGMUIR-HINSHELWOOD MODELS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MASS-TRANSPORT RESISTANCE; NON-ISOTHERMAL MODELS; PILOT-SCALE REACTORS; REACTOR SIMULATION; SODIUM BOROHYDRIDES; STATIONARY APPLICATIONS; TIME RANGE; TRANSPORT PHENOMENA;

BATCH REACTORS; CATALYSTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENZYME KINETICS; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; HYDROGEN STORAGE; HYDROLYSIS; KINETIC THEORY; KINETICS; MODELS; REACTION RATES; RUTHENIUM; SODIUM;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84865461218     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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