Activated carbon methane

The characteristics of the storage system of active carbon-methane... 

Under ammonia synthesis conditions. Ruthenium is an active catalyst for the activated carbons methanation, which leads to the losing of supports and the... 

One of the important reasons of activated carbon supported ruthenium catalyst, which has not been widely applied, is the loss of activated carbon as support due to methanation. Therefore, it has theoretical and practical significance to study the reaction mechanism of activated carbon methanation and inhibition of methanation for ruthenium catalysts. 

Based on the above analysis, the main method of inhibition of activated carbon methanation is to reduce the edge carbon atoms which have unsaturated bond. The measures are listed as the following ... 

Zhu YF, The study of reaction and inhibition mechanism of activated carbon methanation on ruthenium catalysts. Dissertation, Hangzhou Zhejiang University of Technology. 2005. 

Many simple systems that could be expected to form ideal Hquid mixtures are reasonably predicted by extending pure-species adsorption equiUbrium data to a multicomponent equation. The potential theory has been extended to binary mixtures of several hydrocarbons on activated carbon by assuming an ideal mixture (99) and to hydrocarbons on activated carbon and carbon molecular sieves, and to O2 and N2 on 5A and lOX zeoHtes (100). Mixture isotherms predicted by lAST agree with experimental data for methane + ethane and for ethylene + CO2 on activated carbon, and for CO + O2 and for propane + propylene on siUca gel (36). A statistical thermodynamic model has been successfully appHed to equiUbrium isotherms of several nonpolar species on 5A zeoHte, to predict multicomponent sorption equiUbria from the Henry constants for the pure components (26). A set of equations that incorporate surface heterogeneity into the lAST model provides a means for predicting multicomponent equiUbria, but the agreement is only good up to 50% surface saturation (9). 

AJcafiiz-Monge, J., de la Casa-Lillo, M. A., Cazorla-Amoros, D. and Linarcs-Solano, A., Methane storage in activated carbon fibres. Carbon, 1997, 35(2), 291 297. 

The issue of the theoretical maximum storage capacity has been the subject of much debate. Parkyns and Quinn [20] concluded that for active carbons the maximum uptake at 3.5 MPa and 298 K would be 237 V/V. This was estimated from a large number of experimental methane isotherms measured on different carbons, and the relationship of these isotherms to the micropore volume of the corresponding adsorbent. Based on Lennard-Jones parameters [21], Dignum [5] calculated the maximum methane density in a pore at 298 K to be 270 mg/ml. Thus an adsorbent with 0.50 ml of micropore per ml could potentially adsorb 135 mg methane per ml, equivalent to about 205 V/ V, while a microporc volume of 0.60 mEml might store 243 V/V. Using sophisticated parallel slit... 

Although a correlation between BET surface areas from 77 K nitrogen isotherms and methane uptake at 298 K and 3.5 MPa has been shown for many carbon adsorbents, [11, 20], deviations from this relationship have been observed [20]. However, as a primary screening process for possible carbonaceous adsorbents for natural gas, this remains a useful relationship. It should be noted that this correlation only seems to be applicable for active carbons. 

Fig. 5. Methane isotherms at 298 K on two potassium hydroxide activated carbons.

Tabic 3. Some Studies on Methane Storage using Amoco Type KOH Activated Carbon Adsorbents... 

The space velocity was varied from 2539 to 9130 scf/hr ft3 catalyst. Carbon monoxide and ethane were at equilibrium conversion at all space velocities however, some carbon dioxide breakthrough was noticed at the higher space velocities. A bed of activated carbon and zinc oxide at 149 °C reduced the sulfur content of the feed gas from about 2 ppm to less than 0.1 ppm in order to avoid catalyst deactivation by sulfur poisoning. Subsequent tests have indicated that the catalyst is equally effective for feed gases containing up to 1 mole % benzene and 0.5 ppm sulfur (5). These are the maximum concentrations of impurities that can be present in methanation section feed gases. 

Carbon-carbon bond formation reactions and the CH activation of methane are another example where NHC complexes have been used successfully in catalytic applications. Palladium-catalysed reactions include Heck-type reactions, especially the Mizoroki-Heck reaction itself [171-175], and various cross-coupling reactions [176-182]. They have also been found useful for related reactions like the Sonogashira coupling [183-185] or the Buchwald-Hartwig amination [186-189]. The reactions are similar concerning the first step of the catalytic cycle, the oxidative addition of aryl halides to palladium(O) species. This is facilitated by electron-donating substituents and therefore the development of highly active catalysts has focussed on NHC complexes. 

The carbon particle size varied from 80 to 120 run. The BET surface areas of carbon as a function of methane flow rate were compared with those of commercial carbon blacks in Table 3. The BET surface area ranges from 81 to 193 m /g with methane flow rates and this decrease is due to the increase of particle size. Carbon black which has lower surface area of 30 to 100 m /g can be used in rubber industry, while high surface area (> 700 m /g) carbon black is applied to activated carbon. 

Palladium on a purified activated carbon support has been selected as a very suitable catalyst for the reaction. We have reported that the performance of this catalyst looks very promising and that a CFC hydrogenolysis plant based on this catalyst is both technically and economically feasible [3-5]. This paper deals with the stability of the selected catalyst, the long term influence of the hydrogen to CCI2F2 feed ratio on the catalyst performance and the influence of the possible recycle components methane and CHCIF2 on the performance of the catalyst. 

The activity and stability of catalysts for methane-carbon dioxide reforming depend subtly upon the support and the active metal. Methane decomposes to carbon and hydrogen, forming carbon on the oxide support and the metal. Carbon on the metal is reactive and can be oxidized to CO by oxygen from dissociatively adsorbed COj. For noble metals this reaction is fast, leading to low coke accumulation on the metal particles The rate of carbon formation on the support is proportional to the concentration of Lewis acid sites. This carbon is non reactive and may cover the Pt particles causing catalyst deactivation. Hence, the combination of Pt with a support low in acid sites, such as ZrO, is well suited for long term stable operation. For non-noble metals such as Ni, the rate of CH4 dissociation exceeds the rate of oxidation drastically and carbon forms rapidly on the metal in the form of filaments. The rate of carbon filament formation is proportional to the particle size of Ni Below a critical Ni particle size (d<2 nm), formation of carbon slowed down dramatically Well dispersed Ni supported on ZrO is thus a viable alternative to the noble metal based materials. 

GAC Granular activated carbon MBAS Methyl blue active substances MMO Methane mono-oxygenase enzyme MSW Municipal solid waste... 

Himeno S., Komatsu T., et al. High-pressure adsorption equilibria of methane and carbon dioxide on several activated carbones. 2005 Journal of Chemical Enginnering Data 50(2) 369-376. 

Interaction of chlorine with methane is explosive at ambient temperature over yellow mercury oxide [1], and mixtures containing above 20 vol% of chlorine are explosive [2], Mixtures of acetylene and chlorine may explode on initiation by sunlight, other UV source, or high temperatures, sometimes very violently [3], Mixtures with ethylene explode on initiation by sunlight, etc., or over mercury, mercury oxide or silver oxide at ambient temperature, or over lead oxide at 100°C [1,4], Interaction with ethane over activated carbon at 350°C has caused explosions, but added carbon dioxide reduces the risk [5], Accidental introduction of gasoline into a cylinder of liquid chlorine caused a slow exothermic reaction which accelerated to detonation. This effect was verified [6], Injection of liquid chlorine into a naphtha-sodium hydroxide mixture (to generate hypochlorite in situ) caused a violent explosion. Several other incidents involving violent reactions of saturated hydrocarbons with chlorine were noted [7],... 

Chen et al. [70] suggested that temperature gradients may have been responsible for the more than 90 % selectivity of the formation of acetylene from methane in a microwave heated activated carbon bed. The authors believed that the highly nonisothermal nature of the packed bed might allow reaction intermediates formed on the surface to desorb into a relatively cool gas stream where they are transformed via a different reaction pathway than in a conventional isothermal reactor. The results indicated that temperature gradients were approximately 20 K. The nonisothermal nature of this packed bed resulted in an apparent rate enhancement and altered the activation energy and pre-exponential factor [94]. Formation of hot spots was modeled by calculation and, in the case of solid materials, studied by several authors [105-108],... 

Kim, M. et al, Hydrogen production by catalytic decomposition of methane over activated carbons Kinetic study, Int.. Hydrogen Energ., 29,187, 2004. 

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