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Simultaneous production of ultrapure hydrogen and gasoline in a novel thermally coupled double‐membrane reactor
Author(s) -
Bayat M.,
Rahimpour M.R.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of energy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.808
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1099-114X
pISSN - 0363-907X
DOI - 10.1002/er.1878
Subject(s) - exothermic reaction , endothermic process , hydrogen , hydrogen production , chemistry , chemical engineering , membrane reactor , ammonia , permeation , gasoline , membrane , decomposition , organic chemistry , adsorption , biochemistry , engineering
SUMMARY In this study, simultaneous production of ultrapure hydrogen and gasoline via a novel catalytic fixed‐bed double‐membrane reactor with co‐current flow was investigated, mathematically. The thermally coupled double‐membrane reactor (TCDMR) consists of two Pd/Ag membranes, one for separation of pure hydrogen from endothermic side and another one for permeation of hydrogen from endothermic into exothermic side. Ammonia decomposition reaction is coupled with the Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis (FTS) reaction to improve the heat transfer between endothermic and exothermic sides. Some of the produced hydrogen via ammonia decomposition reaction is utilized in FTS reaction, and the other is extracted and stored. A steady‐state heterogeneous model of the two fixed beds predicts the performance of this novel configuration. The achieved results of this simulation have been compared with the results of the conventional fixed‐bed reactor (CR) at identical process conditions. The simulation results show 67.34% hydrogen production in the permeation side and 32.66% hydrogen utilization in the exothermic side for compensates of hydrogen lack in the FTS reaction through the TCDMR configuration. Moreover, the gasoline yield in TCDMR increases about 18.42% because of a favorable profile of temperature along the TCDMR in comparison with the one in CR. Therefore, this approach utilizes and produces large amounts of pure hydrogen and decreases environmental impacts owing to ammonia emission. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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