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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-B.2016.40.11.745

A Numerical Study on Mass Transfer and Methanol Conversion Efficiency According to Porosity and Temperature Change of Curved Channel Methanol-Steam Reformer  

Seong, Hong Seok (Graduate school of Mechanical&Aerospace Engineering, Gyeongsang Nat'l Univ.)
Lee, Chung Ho (Graduate school of Mechanical&Aerospace Engineering, Gyeongsang Nat'l Univ.)
Suh, Jeong Se (School of Mechanical Engineering, Gyeongsang Nat'l Univ. & ERI)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B / v.40, no.11, 2016 , pp. 745-753 More about this Journal
Abstract
Micro methanol-steam reformer for fuel cell can effectively produce hydrogen as reforming response to steam takes place in low temperature (less than $250^{\circ}C$). This study conducted numerical research on this reformer. First, study set wall temperature of the reformer at 100, 140, 180 and $220^{\circ}C$ while methanol conversion efficiency was set in 0, 0.072, 3.83 and 46.51% respectively. Then, porosity of catalyst was set in 0.1, 0.35, 0.6 and 0.85 and although there was no significant difference in methanol conversion efficiency, values of pressure drop were 4645.97, 59.50, 5.12 and 0.45 kPa respectively. This study verified that methanol-steam reformer rarely responds under the temperature of $180^{\circ}C$ and porosity does not have much effect on methanol conversion efficiency if the fluid flowing through reformer lowers activation energy by sufficiently contacting reformer.
Keywords
Reformer; Porosity; Temperature; Conversion Efficiency; CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamics);
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