Due to energy and environmental issues, hydrogen has become a more attractive clean fuel. Furthermore, there is high interest in producing hydrogen from biomass with a view to sustainability. The thermochemical process for hydrogen production, i.e. gasification, is the focus of this work. This paper discusses the mathematical modeling of hydrogen production process via biomass steam gasificatio...

Glycolic acid is a useful and important α-hydroxy that has broad applications. Herein, the homogeneous ruthenium catalyzed reforming of aqueous ethylene glycol to generate glycolic as well pure hydrogen gas, without concomitant CO2 emission, reported. This approach provides clean sustainable direction hydrogen, based on inexpensive, readily available, renewable using 0.5 mol % catalyst. In-dept...

The performance of a combined catalyst and sorbent material designed for reforming hydrocarbons was evaluated by reacting methane with steam at different temperatures and pressures in a reactor packed with the material. The combined material was in the form of small spherical pellets comprised of a sorbent core of lime encased in a porous shell made largely of sintered alumina that supported a ...

CO2 capture and utilization has been considered as an up-and-coming short- to mid-term approach mitigate the excessive emission. Comparing conventional separate capture, transportation conversion arrangement, integrated (ICCU) could largely simplify complex process reduce energy consumption. However, poor stability of high-temperature sorption/desorption severely limit potential ICCU. Therefore...

One of the major advantages SOFCs is their high fuel flexibility. Next to natural gas and hydrogen, which are today's most common fuels for SOFC-systems cell-/stack-testing respectively, various other applicable as well. In literature, a number promising results show that available propane, butane, ammonia, gasoline, diesel etc. can be applied. Here, performance an anode supported cell operated...

As a favorably clean fuel, syngas (synthesis gas) production has been the focus of concern in past decades. Substantial literatures reported the syngas production by various catalytic reforming reactions particularly in methane or ethanol reforming. Among the developed catalysts in these reforming processes, Ni-based catalysts from hydrotalcite-like compounds (HTLcs) precursors have drawn consi...

This work establishes the primordial role played by support’s nature when aimed at constitution of Ni2P active phases for supported catalysts. Thus, carbon dioxide reforming methane was studied over three novel catalysts on Al2O3, CeO2 and SiO2-Al2O3 oxides. The catalytic performance, shown catalysts’ series, decreased according to sequence: Ni2P/Al2O3 > Ni2P/CeO2 Ni2P/SiO2-Al2O3. depleted C...