In this report, we introduce a novel and commercially viable method to recover renewable hydrogen and carbon nanotubes from waste glycerol produced in the biodiesel process. Gas-phase catalytic reforming converts glycerol to clean hydrogen fuel and by replacing the problematical coke formed on the catalyst with high value carbon nanotubes, added value can be realised. Additional benefits of aro...

The electrochemical activation of a Pt-KβAl2O3 catalytic system is studied for hydrogen production from ethanol. in-situ intercalation potassium ions onto the catalyst surface under negative polarization leads to and an increase in rate all explored conditions, observing reproducible, controllable reversible effect. Under ethanol partial oxidation migration promotes dehydrogenation route vs. de...

Catalytic steam reforming of methane for hydrogen production proceeds even at 473 K over 1 wt% Pd/CeO2 catalyst in an electric field, thanks to the surface protonics. Kinetic analyses demonstrated the synergetic effect between catalytic reaction and electric field, revealing strengthened water pressure dependence of the reaction rate when applying an electric field, with one-third the apparent ...

The morphology of nano gamma alumina affects the molecule adsorption-desorption phenomena. In this case, manipulating surface area, pore volume, and size by technique preparation to control textural properties alumina. Washing synthesized boehmite gel with methanol has a significant effect. co-precipitation method was used prepare alumina, which is involved adding drop-by-drop ammonium hydroxid...

In this study, an artificial neural network (ANN) model was developed and compared with a rigorous mathematical (RMM) to estimate the performance of industrial heavy naphtha reforming process. The ANN model, represented by multilayer feed forward (MFFNN), had (36-10-10-10-34) topology, while RMM involved solving 34 ordinary differential equations (ODEs) (32 mass balance, 1 heat balance momentum...

Decreasing supplies of high quality crude oil and increasing demand for high quality distillates have motivated the interest in converting natural gas to liquid fuels, especially with the present boom in natural gas proven reserves. Nevertheless, one major issue is the curtailment of costs incurred in producing synthesis gas from natural gas, which account for approximately 60% of the costs use...