Introduction Hydrogen as a fuel has recently been an important issue due to developments in fuel cell technology. Hydrogen production from sustainable sources, e.g. biomass, is gaining attention for a CO2 neutral energy supply. Recent developments in flash pyrolysis technologies make it possible to convert lignocellulosic biomass efficiently to a bio-oil, which is easier for handling and transp...

The aim of this work was the evaluation of the catalytic steam reforming of a gaseous fuel obtained by steam biomass gasification to convert topping atmosphere residue (TAR) and CH4 and to produce pure H2 by means of a CO2 sorbent. This experimental work deals with the demonstration of the practical feasibility of such concepts, using a real woodgas obtained from fluidized bed steam gasificatio...

This paper presents the initial stage of an effort aimed at developing a new correlation to estimate pseudo critical properties for sour gas when the exact composition is not known. Several mixing rules and gas gravity correlations available in the literature are first evaluated and compared. The evaluation is performed on a large database consisting of more than 2106 samples of sour gas compos...

As oil and gas reserves become depleted, producers are increasingly driven to process difficult or unconventional petrochemical fuel sources to sell to the market in order to meet rising demand. One such source is the production of sour gas wells that contain high levels of mercaptan (thiol) species. In sour gas processing applications, a waste acid gas stream (ie. a stream containing high conc...

The present study is dedicated to the reforming of Diesel fuel with Diesel engine exhaust gas using a non-thermal plasma torch for NOx trap regeneration application. The plasma technology developed is based on a high voltage / low current non-thermal plasma torch. In the first part of the paper, experimental results on production of synthesis gas from Diesel fuel reforming with ha l-0 06 17 14 ...

1. Introduction Already in 1868 [1], H 2 was produced by the steam reforming (eq.1) of hydrocarbons in the presence of a calcium oxide, and the use of natural calcium-based sorbents as candidates to remove CO 2 in situ from reactors has been receiving increasing attention. Through simultaneous CO 2 absorption (eq.3) the equilibrium of the homogenous water gas shift reaction (eq.2) is shifted to...

This paper focuses on the comparison of different glycerol reforming technologies aimed to hydrogen and syngas production. The reactions of steam reforming, partial oxidation, autothermal reforming, dry reforming and supercritical water gasification were analyzed. For this, the Gibbs energy minimization approach was used in combination with the virial Equation of state. The validation of the mo...

This work was funded by the Hydrogen Program Office of the U.S. Department of Energy under Grant No. DE-FG01-99EE35099 and represents the second task of three to be completed under this contract. The first task presented a broad overview of the costs for creating infrastructures to supply direct hydrogen, methanol, and gasoline to support fuel cell vehicles (FCV’s). A conclusion of the report r...

There is a global push to develop a range of hydrogen technologies for timely adoption of the hydrogen economy. This is critical in view of the depleting oil reserves and looming transport fuel shortage, global warming, and increasing pollution. Molecular hydrogen (H2) can be generated by a number of renewable and fossil-fuel-based resources. However, given the high cost of H2 generation by ren...

Abnormal growth of population and development enormously increases energy demand. In present scenario utilization of fossils fuels to meet this demand is not enough and also leads to pollution, global warming, climate change as well as natural disaster. Therefore, hydrogen as energy carrier is a major option on these prospects as it is non-polluting and renewable. The renewable hydrogen energy ...