• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.41-44
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• 2007

Steam reforming reaction of natural gas is an important process for fuelcell commercialization. In this paper, steam reforming reaction is studied by numerical method. Pseudo-homogeneous model is incorporated for chemical reactions and one medium approach is used to take into account thermally equilibrium phenomena between catalyst and bulk gas. The model is validated with our experimental results under the same operating conditions. Because performance of reformer has relation to heat flux from wall, heat flux profiles was investigated by using Nusselt number. Value of Nusselt number in steam reformer is larger than one in channel, which does not have chemical reaction because steam reforming reaction is an endothermic reaction. When the difference of Nusselt number at the front and the rear is larger, performance is improved.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.301-308
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• 2004

The methane reforming with $CO_2$ and steam for manufacture of synthesis gas over $Ni/ZrO_2$ catalyst was investigated. Mixed reforming carried out $CO_2$ dry reforming with $O_2$ and steam for development of DME process in pilot plant. To improve a catalyst deactivation by coke formation, the mixed reforming added carbon dioxide and steam as a oxidizer of the methane reforming was suggested. The result of experiments over commercial catalyst in $CO_2$ dry reforming has shown that the catalyst activity decrease rapidly after 20 hours. In case of $NiO-MgO/Al_2O_3$ catalyst, the deactivation of 20 percent after 30 hours was occurred. The activity of Ni/C catalyst still was not decreased dramatically after 100 hours. The effect of $H_2$ reforming with steam over $Ni/CO_2$ catalyst obtained the optimal conversion of methane and carbon dioxide, and could be produced synthesis gas at ratio of $H_2/CO$ under 1.5.

• 한국연소학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.36-45
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• 2011

The heat-flow characteristics and reforming efficiency of steam reformer with combustor are numerically investigated at various operating conditions. SCR(Steam to Carbon Ratio) and GHSV(Gas Hourly Space Velocity) are adopted as important operating conditions. User-Defined-Function(UDF) was used to simultaneously calculate reforming and combustion reaction. Numerical results show that hot burned gas rise by a buoyant force and heat exchange between reforming reactors and cocurrent flow occurs in the combustion region. The results also indicate that an increase of SCR leads to decrease the mole fraction of hydrogen at the reactor outlet. As GHSV increases, conversion rate decreases.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.11-18
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• 2018

A high efficiency integrated reforming system for improving the efficiency of the 5 kW PEMFC system used as the back up power of building was studied. The separated reforming system consisted of three parts - A steam reformer with two stage concentric circular shape, a heat exchanger type steam generator and a CO shift reactor. Temperature and steam carbon ratio (SCR) were control variables during operation. The operating conditions were optimized based on the thermal efficiency of the steam reformer as reformate gas composition changes at different temperature. In experiments, water was fully vaporized in the steam generator up to SCR 3.5 and the maximum thermal efficiency was achieved at the operating temperature around $700^{\circ}C$ in the steam reforming reactor. With the results of the separated reforming system research, we improved the shape of high efficiency integrated reformer. The performance evaluation of the integrated reformer was based on optimized operating conditions in SCR 3.5. As a result, the developed integrated reforming system maintained an efficiency of 76% and constant performance over 3,000 hours.

• 공업화학
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.198-203
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 Ni metal foam 플레이트의 수증기 개질반응 및 표면 특성을 조사하였다. 전처리를 통하여 Ni의 산화상태를 변화시킬 수 있었으며, 활성 site로서 표면에 노출된 metallic Ni 종은 수증기 개질 반응활성에 중요한 역할을 한다. 또한 Ni metal foam 플레이트의 기공제어 및 촉매 기능을 부여하기 위하여 Ni metal foam 플레이트와 Ni-YSZ 촉매를 혼합하여 다공성 촉매 분리막을 제조하였다. SEM 분석 결과 metal foam 플레이트의 기공을 제어할 수 있었으며, 표면에 Ni-YSZ 촉매는 고르게 잘 분포되어 있었다. Ni 기반 다공성 촉매 분리막은 공간속도에 상관없이 상용촉매와 유사한 수증기 개질 활성을 가진다.

• 청정기술
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.379-387
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• 2013

본 총설에서는 최근 청정수소생산방법으로 큰 관심을 받고 있는 에탄올 수증기개질반응(ethanol steam reforming reaction)에 대해 소개하고자 한다. 다양한 촉매, 반응온도, 에탄올과 물의 몰비에 따른 에탄올 수증기개질반응의 반응특성 및 반응속도식(reaction rate equation)을 검토해 보고자 한다. 또한, 반응기와 분리기를 동시에 장착한 새로운 개념의 막반응기(membrane reactor)를 소개하며, 막반응기의 사용이 일반적인 충전층반응기(packed-bed reactor)에 비해 에탄올 전환율과 수소 수율에 어떠한 영향을 주는지에 대하여 고찰해 보고자 한다.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.14-20
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• 2022

본 연구에서는 메탄올 수증기 개질 반응을 이용하여 수소를 제조할 수 있는 촉매 반응 특성을 조사하였다. 메탄의 수증기 개질 반응시 자주 사용되는 니켈, 그리고 메탄올 합성 시 자주 사용되는 구리를 주 활성금속으로 사용하였으며, 지지체로는 다공성 및 열적 안정성이 우수하고, 높은 비표면적, 약한 루이스 산점과 염기성을 가지고 있는 하이드로탈사이트를 이용함으로서 높은 활성을 가지는 촉매와 그 특성에 대해서 파악하였다. 본 연구에서는 환원성이 높은 구리금속의 촉매에서 높은 반응성을 나타내었으며, 각각의 촉매에서는 함침량이 높아질수록 메탄올 전환율 및 높은 수소 선택도를 보여 주었다.

• 공업화학
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.186-190
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• 2009

본 연구는 수소제조를 위한 디메틸에테르 수증기 개질반응에 대한 열역학적 특성 분석을 목적으로 한다. 이를 위하여 온도(300~1500 K), 반응물 조성비(Steam/Carbon ratio = 1~7), 압력(1, 5, 10 기압) 등의 다양한 반응조건을 변화시키면서 열역학적 평형조성 및 효율 등을 조사하였다. 주어진 조건하에서 흡열반응인 개질반응과 발열반응인 수성가스 전환반응 및 메탄화반응간 경쟁특성을 확인하였으며, 반응온도 400 K를 지나면서 수소발생이 관찰되어 550 K를 지나면서 급격한 발생량의 증가를 확인하였다. 반응물 가운데 수증기의 비율을 증가시킬 경우 수성가스 전환반응이 촉진되어 일산화탄소 저감 및 수소발생 증가 거동을 나타내었다. 결과적으로 열역학적 효율감소를 최소화 하면서 수소발생량을 극대화 할 수 있는 조건은 반응온도 900 K 및 수증기 대 탄소간 비율이 3.0 이내의 범위에 해당하는 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.12-25
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• 2007

Numerical simulation of the natural gas steam reforming process for on-site hydrogen production in a $H_2$ fueling station was conducted on the basis of process material and heat balances. The effects of reforming parameters on the process efficiency of hydrogen production were investigated, and set-point values of each of the parameters to minimize the sizes of unit process equipments and to secure a stable operability of the reforming process were suggested. S/C ratio of the reforming reactants was found to be a crucial parameter in the reforming process mostly governing both the hydrogen production efficiency and the stable operability of the process. The operation of the process was regarded to be stable if the feed water(WR) as a reforming reactant could evaporate completely to dry steam through HRSG. The optimum S/C ratio was 3.0 where the process efficiency of hydrogen production was maximized and the stable operability of the process was secured. The optimum feed rates of natural gas(NGR) and WR as reforming reactants and natural gas(NGB) as a burner fuel were also determined for the hydrogen production rate of $27\;Nm^3/h$.

• 한국연소학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2011

The main objective of this paper is to investigate characteristic of steam reformer at various geometries and operating conditions. In this paper, the steam reforming is studied by a numerical method and three dimensional simulations were used for effective analytical study. User - Defined Function (UDF) was used to simultaneously calculate reforming and combustion reaction. And the numerical model is validated with experimental results at the same operating conditions. In order to understand the relationship between operating conditions such as gas hourly space velocity(GHSV), mass flow rate of combustor inlet, various numerical investigations are carries out for various geometries. Numerical results show that cylindrical geometry is more effective than rectangular geometry for heat transfer to reactors and reforming efficiency. As mass flow rate of combustor inlet increase, reaction occurs more faster and temperature increase with each geometry. On the other hand, reaction and hydrogen conversion decrease as mass flow rate of reactor decreases.