Hydrogen production from rich combustion in porous media of methane and propane

Toledo, Mario; Bubnovich, Valeri; Saveliev, Alexei; Kennedy, Lawrence

doi:10.65582/set.2007.046

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Volume 6, Book 1, 2007, Article 2007.046

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Hydrogen production from rich combustion in porous media of methane and propane

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1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile

2Department of Chemical Engineering, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile

3Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA

Published: 5 September 2007
Pages: 280-286
Received: 5 September 2007
DOI: 10.65582/set.2007.046
Access: Open access, © 2007 Copyright WSSET

Published 5 September 2007Pages 280-286doi.org/10.65582/set.2007.046

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Abstract

This paper studies experimentally and numerically rich combustion of methane and propane inside inert porous media to examine the suitability of the concept for hydrogen production. Temperature velocities and chemical products of the combustion waves were recorder experimentally at the equivalence ratio range from stoichiometry (φ = 1.0) to φ = 2.5, at a filtration velocity of 12 cm/s. Two-temperature numerical model based on comprehensive heat transfer and chemical mechanisms was developed and found to be in a good agreement with experimental data. It is observed that the products of methane and propane partial oxidation (H2, CO, and C2 hydrocarbons) are dominant for ultrarich superadiabatic combustion where up to 60% and 55% of fuel, respectively, is converted to CO and H2. Propane conversion to hydrogen was significantly higher than for methane.

Keywords. Hydrogen production; Filtration combustion; Porous media

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How to cite this article

Toledo, M., Bubnovich, V., Saveliev, A. and Kennedy, L. (2007). 'Hydrogen production from rich combustion in porous media of methane and propane'. SET Proceedings, 6(1), pp. 280-286. https://doi.org/10.65582/set.2007.046