Catalytic Microreactors for Portable Power Generation (Springer Theses)

✍ Scribed by Symeon Karagiannidis

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 122
• 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

Catalytic Microreactors for Portable Power Generation
Supervisor’s Foreword
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Abbreviations
1 Introduction
2 Experimental Setup
3 Numerical Models
4 Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Hetero-/Homogeneous Combustion of Lean Propane/Air Mixtures Over Platinum
5 Experimental and Numerical Investigation of a Propane-Fueled, Catalytic, Mesoscale Combustor
6 Hetero-/Homogeneous Combustion and Stability Maps in Methane-Fueled Catalytic Microreactors
7 Stability of Hetero-/Homogeneous Combustion in Propane- and Methane-Fueled Catalytic Microreactors: Channel Confinement and Molecular Transport Effects
8 Numerical Investigation on the Start-Up of Methane-Fueled, Catalytic Microreactors
9 Conclusions Summary: Outlook