Title
Pd-based metallic supported membranes: High-temperature stability and fluidized bed reactor testing
Date Issued
01 June 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Medrano J.A.
Fernandez E.
Melendez J.
Parco M.
Van Sint Annaland M.
Gallucci F.
TECNALIA
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
The present work focuses on the study of a metallic supported Pd-Ag membrane for high temperature applications with a particular attention to long-term stability. In this work, a metallic supported thin-film Pd-Ag membrane has been tested for more than 800 h and sustained hydrogen perm-selectivities higher than 200000 have been measured. Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that there is no interaction of the membrane with the Ni/CaAl2O4 reforming catalyst particles, thus resulting in a constant permeance in the fluidized bed membrane reactor mode. The membrane has been tested under steam and autothermal reforming of methane conditions and the membrane performance has been quantified in terms of the hydrogen recovery and separation factors demonstrating a good reactor performance accomplishing an enhancement in the process efficiency by in-situ selective H2 separation. A decrease in ideal perm-selectivity has been observed at high temperatures (600°C). Small defects at the Pd/Ag surface as a result of interaction of the Pd/Ag later with the metallic support have been observed in after test membrane characterization, which provides appreciated information for the improvement in the performance and production of future membranes.
Start page
8706
End page
8718
Volume
41
Issue
20
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Química
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84949058223
Source
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
ISSN of the container
03603199
Sponsor(s)
The presented work is funded within ReforCELL project as part of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) for the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Technology Initiative under grant agreement nº 278997 and NWO/STW for the financial support through the VIDI project number 12365 . Note: “The present publication reflects only the author's views and the FCH JU and the Union are not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein ” .
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