Catalytic Microreactors for Portable Power Generation

✍ Scribed by Symeon Karagiannidis (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 130
• Series: Springer Theses
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Catalytic Microreactors for Portable Power Generation” addresses a problem of high relevance and increased complexity in energy technology. This thesis outlines an investigation into catalytic and gas-phase combustion characteristics in channel-flow, platinum-coated microreactors. The emphasis of the study is on microreactor/microturbine concepts for portable power generation and the fuels of interest are methane and propane. The author carefully describes numerical and experimental techniques, providing a new insight into the complex interactions between chemical kinetics and molecular transport processes, as well as giving the first detailed report of hetero-/homogeneous chemical reaction mechanisms for catalytic propane combustion. The outcome of this work will be widely applied to the industrial design of micro- and mesoscale combustors.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Experimental Setup....Pages 15-21
Numerical Models....Pages 23-28
Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Hetero-/Homogeneous Combustion of Lean Propane/Air Mixtures Over Platinum....Pages 29-39
Experimental and Numerical Investigation of a Propane-Fueled, Catalytic, Mesoscale Combustor....Pages 41-53
Hetero-/Homogeneous Combustion and Stability Maps in Methane-Fueled Catalytic Microreactors....Pages 55-66
Stability of Hetero-/Homogeneous Combustion in Propane- and Methane-Fueled Catalytic Microreactors: Channel Confinement and Molecular Transport Effects....Pages 67-80
Numerical Investigation on the Start-Up of Methane-Fueled, Catalytic Microreactors....Pages 81-106
Conclusions Summary: Outlook....Pages 107-109
Back Matter....Pages 111-112

✦ Subjects

Physical Chemistry;Energy Technology;Catalysis;Energy Technology