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NUMERICAL STUDY OF STREAM REFORMER AND PRECONVERTER FOR MCFC

MCFC용 개질기 및 프리컨버터의 수치연구

  • 변도현 (경북대학교 대학원 기계공학부 응용열유체실험실) ;
  • 손창현 (경북대학교 기계공학부)
  • Received : 2010.11.26
  • Accepted : 2011.03.02
  • Published : 2011.03.31
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Abstract

In this paper, various operating parameters of stream reforming process from methane in stream reformer and preconverter for MCFC is studied by numerical method. Commercial code is used to simulated the porous catalyst with user subroutine to model three dominant chemical reactions which are Stream Reforming(SR), Water-Gas Shift(WGS), and Direct Stram Reforming(DSR). The hydrogen production is tested with different wall temperature and different reactor shapes. The calculated results of the concentration of hydrogen in stream reformer are very well consistent with experimental results. This numerical study gives the design reactor wall temperature condition and size of reactor to satisfy the required fuel conversion.

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