Abnormal growth of population and development enormously increases energy demand. In present scenario utilization of fossils fuels to meet this demand is not enough and also leads to pollution, global warming, climate change as well as natural disaster. Therefore, hydrogen as energy carrier is a major option on these prospects as it is non-polluting and renewable. The renewable hydrogen energy ...

The influence of fluidic effects on two different kinetic parameter identifications in lab-scale catalysis testing was investigated using computational fluid dynamics. Firstly, the dry reforming of methane in a stagnation flow reactor with a detailed surface mechanism was simulated fully three-dimensional. It is shown that the 3D simulations are not advantageous over the commonly used stagnatio...

A novel catalytic reactor with dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) at atmospheric pressure was developed for the abatement of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The novelty of DBD reactor is the metallic catalyst serving also as the inner electrode. The catalytic electrode was prepared from sintered metal fibers (SMF) in the form of a cylindrical tube. Oxides of Mn and Co were deposited on SMF b...

The application of elaborately designed magnetic catalysts has long been limited to ease their separation from the products only. In this paper, we for the first time employed a magnetic sulphonated poly(styrene-divinylbenzene) resin catalyst on a magnetically stabilized-bed (MSB) reactor to enhance the etherification of fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) light gasoline, one of the most importa...