Enhancement of Equilibriumshift in Dehydrogenation Reactions Using a Novel Membrane Reactor
Author(s) -
Shamsuddin Ilias,
Franklin G. King
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/897396
Subject(s) - dehydrogenation , hydrogen , permeation , membrane , mass transfer , membrane reactor , chemical engineering , ceramic , data flow model , flow (mathematics) , materials science , composite number , chemistry , process engineering , catalysis , mechanics , chromatography , engineering , composite material , physics , organic chemistry , biochemistry
A mathematical model is developed to describe the permeation of hydrogen through thin-film palladium ceramic composite membrane in cocurrent flow configuration. Numerical simulation results show that the model under predicts reject composition and over predicts the product purity. These results suggest that the gas phase mass transfer resistance could be important. The difference between the predicted and actual hydrogen composition is less than 12%. Thus the model appears to be adequate for predicting the membrane module performance
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