Kinetics of methane decomposition to COx-free hydrogen and carbon nanofiber over Ni–Cu/MgO catalyst

✍ Scribed by Maryam Borghei; Ramin Karimzadeh; Alimorad Rashidi; Nosrat Izadi

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 643 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0360-3199
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2010.05.072

✦ Synopsis

Kinetic modeling of methane decomposition to CO x -free hydrogen and carbon nanofiber has been carried out in the temperature range 550e650 C over NieCu/MgO catalyst from CH 4 eH 2 mixtures at atmospheric pressure. Assuming the different mechanisms of the reaction, several kinetic models were derived based on LangmuireHinshelwood type. The optimum value of kinetic parameters has been obtained by Genetic Algorithm and statistical analysis has been used for the model discrimination. The suggested kinetic model relates to the mechanism when the dissociative adsorption of methane molecule is the rate-determining stage and the estimated activation energy is 50.4 kJ/mol in agreement with the literature. The catalyst deactivation was found to be dependent on the time, reaction temperature, and partial pressures of methane and hydrogen. Inspection of the behavior of the catalyst activity in relation to time, led to a model of second order for catalyst deactivation.