OA19 Coupling Detailed Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Kinetics with Mass and Heat Transfer in Catalytic Reforming of Conventional Fuels

Tuesday, June 7, 2011: 10:40 AM
Cabot Ballroom (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
Lubow Maier1, Marco Hartmann2, Steffen Tischer1 and Olaf Deutschmann2, (1)Institute for Nuclear and Energy Technologies, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, (2)Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Present work is related to the coupling of homogeneous and heterogeneous reaction schemes with mass and heat transport effects at the numerical study on a catalytic reformer for the production of hydrogen from iso-octane to explain the impact of residence time on fuel conversion and to optimize the reactor performance.

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