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http://dx.doi.org/10.12925/jkocs.2004.21.3.5

Effect of Temperature and Reactants Flow Rate on the Synthesis Gas Production in a Fixed Bed Reactor  

Kim, Sang-Bum (Department of Chemical Engineering, Myongji University)
Kim, Young-Kook (Department of Chemical Engineering, Myongji University)
Hwang, Jae-Young (Department of Chemical Engineering, Myongji University)
Kim, Myung-Soo (Department of Chemical Engineering, Myongji University)
Park, Hong-Soo (Department of Chemical Engineering, Myongji University)
Hahm, Hyun-Sik (Department of Chemical Engineering, Myongji University)
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Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology / v.21, no.3, 2004 , pp. 225-230 More about this Journal
Abstract
Synthesis gas is a high valued compound as a basic chemicals at various chemical processes. Synthesis gas is mainly produced commercially by a steam reforming process. However, the process is highly endothermic so that the process is very energy-consuming process. Thus, this study was carried out to produce synthesis gas by the partial oxidation of methane to decrease the energy cost. The effects of reaction temperature and flow rate of reactants on the methane conversion, product selectivity, product ratio, and carbon deposition were investigated with 13wt% Ni/MgO catalyst in a fluidized bed reactor. With the fluidized bed reactor, $CH_4$ conversion was 91%, and Hz and CO selectivities were both 98% at 850$^{\circ}C$ and total flow rate of 100 mL/min. These values were higher than those of fixed bed reactor. From this result, we found that with the use of the fluidized bed reactor it was possible to avoid the disadvantage of fixed bed reactor (explosion) and increase the productivity of synthesis gas.
Keywords
carbon deposition; partial oxidation of methane; supported Ni catalysts; fluidized bed reactor;
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