Oxidative ethanol steam reforming hydrogen production

Table 7 References on oxidative steam reforming (OSR) and autothermal reforming of ethanol for hydrogen production... 

Cobalt-based catalysts are effective in the ethanol reformation to hydrogen. Many oxides have been used to prepare supported cobalt catalysts of low cobalt content (circa 1 wt%) by impregnation from a solution of Co2(CO)8 catalysts were used in the ethanol reformation as prepared [156]. The performance of the catalysts in the steam reforming of ethanol was related with the presence, under reaction conditions, of metallic (ferromagnetic) cobalt particles and oxidized cobalt species. An easy exchange between small metallic cobalt particles and oxidized cobalt species was found. Comparison of Co/ZnO catalysts prepared from Co2(CO)8 or from nitrate precursor indicated that the catalyst prepared from the carbonyl precursor was highly stable and more selective for the production of CO-free hydrogen... 

Table 2.30. Selected Catalysts for the Oxidative Steam Reforming (OSR) and Autothermal Reforming of Ethanol for Hydrogen Production... 

Fierro, V., Akdim, O., and Mirodatos, C. On-board hydrogen production in a hybrid electric vehicle by bio-ethanol oxidative steam reforming over Ni and noble metal based catalysts. Green Chemistry, 2003, 5, 20. 

K. Urasaki, K. Tokunaga, Y. Sekine, M. Matsukata and E. Kikuchi, Production of hydrogen by steam reforming of ethanol over cobalt and nickel catalysts supported on perovskite-type oxides, Catal. Commun., 2008, 9, 600-604. 

Another interesting field involving membrane reactors is the partial oxidation of methane to methanol, which is a process for the catalytic conversion of methane from natural gas and air oxygen to methanol by the partial oxidation as well as the steam reforming of methane, ethanol or glycerol for hydrogen production (Basile et a/., 2011 lulianelli et al, 2010,2011). 

Lin, W.-H., Liu, Y.-C., Chang, H.-F. (2008). Hydrogen production from oxidative steam reforming of ethanol in a palladium—silver alloy composite membrane reactor. Journal of the Chinese Institute of Chemical Engineers, 39, 435—440. 

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