In the Hydrogen based economy, distributed power generation systems using fuel cell technology require modularity. This modularity in power generation can be achieved by process intensification of the equipments involved. The water gas shift reaction is an integral part of hydrocarbon based Hydrogen generation and the reaction is kinetically limited and hence occupies the largest volume. Proces...

Sir Hugh Stott Taylor first defined the concept of “catalytic active sites” in 1925 as the place where the catalytic reaction occurs. In a homogeneous phase, the active sites are uniquely defined, but on a heterogeneous catalyst surface, it is always challenging to identify the active sites; the latter often change with the operating conditions and are disguised by the presence of nanoparticles...

While Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) using coal and natural gas in conventional reactors is an almost well-established technology, the production of liquid hydrocarbons from syngas obtained from biomass is in its preliminary stages of commercialization in countries like Germany. With concerns about global warming and ways of disposing of CO2 being searched for, CO2 hydrogenation using FTS to l...

In this paper, an integrated gasification combined cycle conceptual design that achieves optimum energy efficiency and 82.9% heat integration between hot and cold utilities is illustrated. The integrated combined gasification cycle (IGCC) is also modeled and evaluated for the co-production of electricity, ammonia and methane for 543.13 kilo tonne per annum (KTA) of municipal solid waste (MSW). ...

The washcoat composition and the catalytic properties of two commercially available lean NOx traps (LNTs) were investigated. Both catalysts contained nominally same storage materials but differed strongly in their amount activity as well layered architecture. In lean-rich cycle experiments under realistic engine-out gas compositions using a laboratory test bench, LNTs showed comparable behavior...

One of the technologies for Pre-Combustion Decarbonisation is the production of hydrogen rich fuel gas from fossil fuel feed stock by means of a water gas shift membrane reactor system. A study to develop and test hydrogen selective membranes for use in a water gas shift membrane reactor operating with sour synthesis gas has been sponsored by the CO2 Capture Project. The aim of the project was ...