Introduction Reforming (i.e., partial oxidation, steam reforming, or autothermal reforming (ATR)) of infrastructure fuels, such as natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, gasoline, or diesel, is one approach being investigated for distributed H2 production for use with fuel cell systems being developed for automotive and stationary applications. One area of interest is reforming gasoline either o...

Twelve crude oil blends prepared from seven individual oils and an imported atmospheric residue were characterized through a true boiling point (TBP) distillation analysis their density. When comparing the measured TBP fraction yields with those estimated application of additive blending rule, it was found that, for four blends, rule valid, while remaining eight deviations ones bigger than anal...

Technical Targets The goal of this project is to develop a cost effective and feedstock flexible technology for reforming of biomass feedstocks. The synergistic improvement in reforming catalysts and reaction engineering will help the reforming technology development that meets the following DOE 2010 targets for distributed production of hydrogen from bio-derived renewable liquids: • Cost: $3.6...

Naphtha was separated by using a easily attainable metal–organic framework, Co3(HCOO)6, through selective molecular exclusion of alkane isomers with different degrees branching. The separation capability the compound evaluated naphtha mixtures 180+ hydrocarbon components. Co3(HCOO)6 exhibited efficient mixture and thus yielded products high octane ratings dynamic capacity. More information can ...

A small-size gasification unit is improved through process optimization to simulate industrial United Gas Improvement Company gasification. It finds that the reaction temperature has important impacts on semicoke catalyzed methane gas mixture. The addition of water vapor can enhance the catalytic activity of reforming, which is due to the fact that addition of water vapor not only removes carbo...

The use of a plasma reformer for the generation of hydrogen rich gas from diesel fuel has been investigated. A system that is normally used for investigating natural gas reforming has been modified in order to investigate the reforming of heavy liquid fuels. The composition of the reformate has been investigated as a function of the composition of the reagents. The use of a one-step reformer/wa...

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 initially focuses on developing a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of an industrialscale steam methane reforming reactor (reforming tube) used to produce hydrogen. Subsequently, we design and evaluate three different feedback control schemes to drive the area-weighted average hydrogen mole fraction measured at the reforming tube outlet ( x̄H outlet 2 ) to a desired set-point va...