A catalyst and sorbent is disclosed which comprises pellets with an absorbent core and a protective shell with a catalyst in the shell. Such material is especially well suited for steam reforming of hydrocarbons to produce hydrogen since a reforming catalyst can be incorporated in the shell and a sorbent for the by-product carbon dioxide can be used for the core. It is also well suited for prod...

There is not much stress on man's rebellion against God and the reforming power of Jesus Christ is not brought out. Reform is nevertheless considered with great humanity and sympathy, never clinically. Convicts (ugly word) are individuals varying greatly, and quite like ourselves (awful thought). Mr. Howard has greater insights on reform than on punishment, not that they are opposed to each oth...

This work describes two different configurations of syngas production processes using a combination of steam methane reforming (SMR) and dry reforming of methane (DRM). The ideal SMR+DRM process ensures the maximum product yield, the heat-integrated SMR+DRM process fulfills the maximum heat recovery, and the stand-alone SMR+DRM process effectively suppress net CO2 emissions. Through kinetic mod...

Thermal plasma reforming offers advantages in hydrocarbon reforming especially in small to medium scale plants and in plants with fast transients. The combination of a thermal plasma reformer operating with partial oxidation with a catalyst bed will be described. Reduced concentrations of CO (1-3% vol) can be achieved, with high hydrogen yields and minimal plasmatron electrical power requiremen...

Steam reforming of glycerol to produce syngas or H2-enriched streams is a 12 promising route that has caught the attention of many researchers around the world. This reaction 13 is typically carried out over metal-based catalysts supported on stable materials. Herein we report 14 a study on the effect of Sn on the catalytic properties of Pt/C in the aforementioned reaction. A 15 series of Pt-Sn...

In the push to replace fossil fuels and their conversion into energy via the internal combustion engine with cleaner and more renewable energy sources for the transportation sector, hydrogen and the fuel cell have emerged as the best candidates for the future. Hydrogen is readily available in near limitless quantities and produces only water and heat as a byproduct when reacted with oxygen. Whi...

Such an alarming statement has not been challenged---in fact it is even more widely accepted today. Indeed, throughout wealthy countries (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) we hear the same kind of systemic problems: • many doctors are disgruntled, overworked and professionally unsatisfied; • nurses are restless and in short supply; • popular demands for more health spending...

It is time for the research community to rethink how the outputs of scientific research are evaluated and, as the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment makes clear, this should involve replacing the journal impact factor with a broad range of more meaningful approaches.

Current scholarship has not addressed the systemic problems that occur in the process of implementing healthcare reform, tending instead to focus on proposing single reform measures to cure specific problems or on constitutional problems related to the Affordable Care Act. 1 To address that gap, this article carefully analyzes a case study of Medicare‘s efforts to control unnecessary hospital a...

the Seeing the Difference project in California (http:// seeingthedifference.berkeley.edu/) brought together artists, humanists, and medical professionals to decon-struct the representations and realities of death, literally opening up new " ways of seeing " death and dying. The medical view, for example, takes the body as literal: an entity on which to implement physical and psychological chan...