Perm isotherm

Complete fuel cells are engineered for isothermal oxidation by the addition of perm-selective membranes and isothermal concentration cells. They would, if developed, generate much higher Nernst potential difference than an existing incomplete fuel cell. That would give a chance for fuel cells to draw level, a chance the industry does not seem to understand. 

In Figure A.4 water and methane, each proceeding from store, while being driven by circulators via perm-selective membranes, are reacted isothermally in a notional and conceptually quite new isothermal reformer resembling a fuel cell bounded by perm-selective membranes. The circulators are isothermal concentration cells with Nernst potential differences. 

Let us assume now that the perm-selectivity is broken down that is, an excess of MA electrolyte is present in the film, so that the change in the concentration of A induced by doping, is small compared to the excessive electrolyte concentration. This leads to an invariance of the chemical potential of instead of the condition of perm-selectivity (Equation 11.9), so that a Frumkin-type isotherm (Equation 11.14) appears instead ofthe non-Nernstian isotherm (Equation 11.13). 

Equation 20 shows that a porous medium is permeative, that is, a shear factor exists to account for the microscopic momentum loss. Our preliminary study recently reveals that, however, a porous medium is not only permeative but dispersive as well. The dispersivity of a porous medium has been traditionally characterized through heat transfer (in a single- or multifluid flow) and mass transfer (in a multifluid flow) studies. For an isothermal single-fluid flow, the dispersivity of a porous medium is characterized by a flow strength and a porous medium property-de-pendent apparent viscosity. For simplicity, we discuss the single-fluid flow behavior in this chapter without considering the dispersivity of the porous medium. 

Reddy and Wilhite [59] investigated application of membrane reactors in diesel reformate mixture purification isothermal two-dimensional model. The typical reformate mixture contains 9% CO, 3% CO2, 28% H2 and 15% H2O. Simulations indicate that apparent CO H2 selectivities of 90 1 to >200 1 at H2 recoveries of 20% to upwards of 40% may be achieved through appropriate design of the catalytic membrane and selection of operating cmiditions. Comparison of adiabatic and isothermal simulations indicates that accumulation of reaction heat reduces apparent perm-selectivities however, this may be mitigated by external imposition of a cotmtering thermal gradient... 

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