Membrane hydrogen production

Key words methane steam reforming, Pd/Pd-Ag membrane, hydrogen production, industrial operation. 

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Steam methane reforming with polymeric membrane for hydrogen production. 

Although considerable research has been conducted with Pd-alloy foils, tubes, and thinner composite membranes, long-term durability and stability need to be further demonstrated, especially in the fuel reforming or WGS operating conditions, for acceptance of this technology in a commercial sector. Furthermore, mass-scale and cost-effective production of industrial-scale Pd-alloy thin-film composite membranes need to be demonstrated to be competitive in the hydrogen production and purification market. 

Damle, A.S., C. Richardson, C. Love, T. Powers, and J. Aquaviva, High performance palladium-alloy based composite membranes for hydrogen production, 2007 NHA Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, March 2007. 

Freeman, B.D., High Temperature Nano-Composite Membranes for Hydrogen Production for Fuel Cells, Final Report, TCEQ/NTRD Grant Contract 582-5-65591-0002, August 2006. 

Lin, J.Y.S., Zeolite Membrane Reactor for Water-Gas-Shift Reaction for Hydrogen Production, Proceedings of2007 U.S. DOE Hydrogen Annual Merit Review Meeting, Arlington, VA, May 2007. 

Lin, Y.M. and M.H. Rei, Study on the hydrogen production from methanol steam reforming in supported palladium membrane reactor, Catal. Today, 67, 77-84, 2001b. 

Yasuda, I., T. Tsuneki, and S. Shiraski, Development of Membrane Reformer System for Highly-Efficient Hydrogen Production from Natural Gas, World Conference on Wind Energy, Renewable Energy, Fuel Cell (WCWRF 2005), Hamamatsu, Japan, June 2005. 

Lab-scale bioreactor integrated with active membrane system for hydrogen production experience and prospects. Ini../. Hydr. Energy., 27 1149-1155... 

We thank Dr. H. Minamikawa (AIST) for the synthesis of Mah (Phyt)2 and Dr. D. Zhou and Dr. K. Kawasaki (AIST) for the FFEM observations. We also thank Prof. Dr. N. Kamo (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University) for providing us with BR and a valuable discussion. This work was performed as a part of the R D project of AIST (Physical properties of membrane protein/lipid assemblies) and also partly supported by the NEDO International loint Research Grant (No. 01GB1 Development of molecular device for hydrogen production). 

Hydrogen production, water-splitting photosynthesis, semiarteficial system, His-tagged membrane proteins, photosystem 1, photosystem 2... 

Hydrogen will possibly play a major role among prospective energy carriers, and the most suitable method for industrial hydrogen production is water electrolysis. Membrane cells provide much better efficiency in comparison with other methods.27... 

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