2D heat and mass transfer modeling of methane steam reforming for hydrogen production in a compact reformer

TLDR: In this paper, a 2D heat and mass transfer model is developed to investigate the fundamental transport phenomenon and chemical reaction kinetics in a compact reformer for hydrogen production by methane steam reforming (MSR).

About: This article is published in Energy Conversion and Management.The article was published on 2013-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 51 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Methane reformer & Steam reforming.

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Table 1. Parameters used in calculating the effective diffusion coefficients [16]

Table 2 Parameters used in simulation.

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Q1. What contributions have the authors mentioned in the paper "2d heat and mass transfer modeling of methane steam reforming for hydrogen production in a compact reformer" ?

In this study, a 2D heat and mass transfer model is developed to investigate the fundamental transport phenomenon and chemical reaction kinetics in a CR for hydrogen production by methane steam reforming ( MSR ). 

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The effects of SCR and the catalyst nature on CR performance are not included but will be considered in future works.