Thermodynamic Analysis Of Hydrogen Production From Aqueous Phase Glucose Reformation As Applied To Waste Heat Recovery From Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engines

Download or read book Thermodynamic Analysis of Hydrogen Production from Aqueous-phase Glucose Reformation as Applied to Waste Heat Recovery from Natural Gas Internal Combustion Engines written by Jerome Kyrias Carman and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thermodynamic model was designed to explore the viability of utilizing hydrogen-rich gas produced by aqueous-phase reformation (APR) of glucose to provide hydrogen enrichment which can improve efficiency and reduce emissions in natural gas internal combustion engines (ICE). Furthermore, this model assessed whether the endothermic APR process could be driven using waste heat recovered from engine exhaust effectively converting this heat energy into usable chemical potential energy. The reactor conditions modeled are based upon published peer reviewed experimental results which were designed to be just below the vaporization point of water for two reactor environments at 498K and 2.9MPa, and 538K and 5.6MPa. The model was designed to match experimental alkane production and calculate the resulting hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and water vapor production.