Production of synthetic methane as a substitute for natural gas has been widely discussed means long-term energy storage with the potential CO2 neutrality. While maximum conversion catalytic methanation is limited by highly exothermic and pressure-dependent nature Sabatier reaction, high at low pressure could be achieved laboratory scale through sorption enhancement. The transient this process ...

A method to determine experimentally the melting rate, rm, and the heat transfer coefficients, αv (W/(mK)), at convective melting in a fixed bed of particles under adiabatic regime is established in this paper. The method lies in the determining of the melting rate by measuring the fixed bed height in time. Experimental values of rm, α and α v were determined using cylindrical particles of ice ...