Glycerol Steam Reforming in a Pilot Plant: Effect of Temperature and Catalyst Load

One of the main environmental problems is use oil for fuel and plastic production, implying increase in pollutants that might contribute to greenhouse gas effect, among others. Thus, vegetable oils produce biodiesel can be interesting, as it biodegradable less pollutant compared diesel fuels, presenting higher flash combustion points. Moreover, production could take part a biorefinery concept, products such biolubricants obtain interesting byproducts reused (such methanol) or upgraded energy pharmaceutical purposes (like glycerol). Consequently, valorization these efficiency process, improving atom economy. The aim this work was assess effect temperature amount catalyst on glycerol steam reforming hydrogen at semi-industrial level, regarding some aspects like mole ratio power, using Ni-based catalyst. In conclusion, best results found experiment, allowing plant continuously 9 h, were obtained with following conditions: S/C ratio: 0.7; inlet flow: 40 mL/min; temperature: 850 °C; La2O3 NiO percentage: 5 12%, respectively.