Membrane Reactors for Hydrogen Production Processes

✍ Scribed by Luigi Marrelli, Marcello De Falco (auth.), Marcello De Falco, Luigi Marrelli, Gaetano Iaquaniello (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Membrane Reactors for Hydrogen Production Processes deals with technological and economic aspects of hydrogen selective membranes application in hydrogen production chemical processes.

Membrane Reactors for Hydrogen Production Processes starts with an overview of membrane integration in the chemical reaction environment, formulating the thermodynamics and kinetics of membrane reactors and assessing the performance of different process architectures.

Then, the state of the art of hydrogen selective membranes, membrane manufacturing processes and the mathematical modeling of membrane reactors are discussed. A review of the most useful applications from an industrial point of view is given. These applications include:

• natural gas steam reforming,
• autothermal reforming,
• water gas shift reaction,
• decomposition of hydrogen sulphide, and
• alkanes dehydrogenation.

The final part is dedicated to the description of a pilot plant where the novel configuration was implemented at a semi-industrial scale.

Plant engineers, researchers and postgraduate students will find Membrane Reactors for Hydrogen Production Processes a comprehensive guide to the state of the art of membrane reactor technology.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Integration of Selective Membranes in Chemical Processes: Benefits and Examples....Pages 1-19
Pd-based Selective Membrane State-of-the-Art....Pages 21-55
Hydrogen Palladium Selective Membranes: An Economic Perspective....Pages 57-78
Membrane Reactors Modeling....Pages 79-102
Membrane Integration in Natural Gas Steam Reforming....Pages 103-122
Autothermal Reforming Case Study....Pages 123-142
Technical and Economical Evaluation of WGSR....Pages 143-160
Membrane-Assisted Catalytic Cracking of Hydrogen Sulphide (H 2 S)....Pages 161-182
Alkanes Dehydrogenation....Pages 183-200
Steam Reforming of Natural Gas in a Reformer and Membrane Modules Test Plant: Plant Design Criteria and Operating Experience....Pages 201-216
Future Perspectives....Pages 217-224
Back Matter....Pages 225-235

✦ Subjects

Industrial and Production Engineering; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering