Combined production and purification of hydrogen from methanol using steam iron process in fixed bed reactor

The production of pure pressurised hydrogen by the reformer-steam iron process in a fixed bed reactor system

“…Some work is published about the formation of inert carbon at iron particles that is not oxidised during the steam treatment and therefore does not lead to carbon monoxide impurities in the produced hydrogen [32,33]. Irrespective of this finding the formation of solid carbon has to be avoided since it may form amounts of carbon monoxide during the oxidation or plug the reactor during the reduction step after several cycles.…”

Recent advancements in chemical looping water splitting for the production of hydrogen

“…The same group investigated ethanol 101 and methanol 102 as feed in a xed bed reactor. Fe 2 O 3 supported with CeO 2 and Al 2 O 3 was used as the oxygen carrier.…”

Spinel Mixed Oxides for Chemical-Loop Reforming: From Solid State to Potential Application

“…The reduced oxygen carrier is then regenerated with steam, which enables the production of high-purity hydrogen without an additional separation step. The chemical-looping process can be performed using a number of different reductants, such as gas from coal [13] or biomass [14][15][16] gasification, light hydrocarbons reforming [17], methane [18][19][20], a CH 4 /CO 2 and CH 4 /H 2 mixture [20,21], pyrolysis oil [22,23], methanol [24], and pure H 2 (as a method for H 2 storage) [25,26]. Furthermore, the nature of the oxide, used as the ionic oxygen and electron carrier, and the reaction conditions are important parameters because they determine the potential for low costs and high efficiency of this process in order to have a commercial impact.…”