Reactor Design With Matlab In A Manufacturing Environment

The motivation for this study arises from a class project in an Alternative Energy course MET 494. A professor with mechanical processing background taught the course to students with similar background during the 1996 fall semester. During the 1996 spring semester, the professor’s MET 494 students produced hydrogen in a batch reactor via a methane steam reforming reaction on a nickel catalyst. The batch reactor temperature was about 800 C and pressures varied between 85 and 97 psig. The class objective, among other things, was to produce hydrogen in a continuous flow reactor and understand the behavior of such a reactor.