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High pressure plant for heterogeneous catalytic CO2 hydrogenation reactions in a continuous flow microreactor
- Source :
- Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification. 65:53-57
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2013.
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Abstract
- The CO2 hydrogenation to methanol is favored by high pressure from the thermodynamic point of view. Mostly experimental work on this reaction is limited at 400 bar due to technical and safety reasons. In this work we present a high pressure plant able to conduct CO2 hydrogenation reactions at pressures up to 950 bar in a capillary microreactor; we focus on the influence of pressure concerning process intensification. To validate the plant functionality the reverse water–gas shift (RWGS) reaction was conducted over a 1 wt% Pt/CeO2 catalyst at 450 °C and between 200 and 950 bar. A mass flow controller for hydrogen was developed due to lack of commercial available hydrogen mass flow controller able to work in the micro liter per minute range and up to 1000 bar. Additional to the RWGS reaction two more reactions take place. The first is the CO disproportionation reaction which results in deposited carbon on the catalyst. The second is the subsequent hydrogenation of carbon to methane. The experimentally determined CO2 conversion is clearly below the equilibrium of the entire reaction network, hence the reaction is kinetically limited. The reaction performance increases with pressure showing process intensification.
- Subjects :
- Hydrogen
Process Chemistry and Technology
General Chemical Engineering
Mass flow controller
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
chemistry.chemical_element
Disproportionation
General Chemistry
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Methane
Catalysis
chemistry.chemical_compound
chemistry
Chemical engineering
Organic chemistry
Methanol
Microreactor
Carbon
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 02552701
- Volume :
- 65
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........cbea228507302ad20f084703318ec7df