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Reactor Technology for Syngas and Hydrogen

Applications, Innovation, Performance and Reactor Engineering

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Sustainable Strategies for the Upgrading of Natural Gas: Fundamentals, Challenges, and Opportunities

Part of the book series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry ((NAII,volume 191))

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Changes and developments in the markets for synthesis gas and hydrogen, driven largely by environmental and remote gas monetization, are leading to innovation in the reaction engineering of syngas generation. The opportunities vary in scale from the order of liter volumes of catalyst (fuel cell hydrogen preparation) up to 100 te catalyst (gas-to-liquids). A variety of process options are available, based on steam reforming, partial oxidation and combinations thereof, with varying degrees of integration. Autothermal and Gas-Heated reforming designs are compared. The performance of a reforming process is critically dependent on design, operation and maintenance and aspects of this are reviewed.

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    E H Stitt

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  1. Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

    Eric G. Derouane

  2. Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Novosibirsk, Russia

    Valentin Parmon

  3. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal

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Stitt, E.H. (2005). Reactor Technology for Syngas and Hydrogen. In: Derouane, E.G., Parmon, V., Lemos, F., Ramôa Ribeiro, F. (eds) Sustainable Strategies for the Upgrading of Natural Gas: Fundamentals, Challenges, and Opportunities. NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, vol 191. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3310-9_10

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