Chen, Wei-Hsin and Chou, Wei-Shan and Chein, Rei-Yu and Hoang, Anh Tuan and Juan, Joon Ching (2024) Multiple-objective optimization on ammonia decomposition using membrane reactor. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 52 (B). pp. 1002-1017. ISSN 1879-3487, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.05.081.
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Ammonia plays a key role in the renewable hydrogen economy nowadays, thus, the efficiency of ammonia decomposition for hydrogen production becomes an important research topic. In this study, a numerical model was built to study the performance of ammonia decomposition using a membrane reactor and Ru/Al2O3 catalyst under various operating conditions such as feed NH3 temperature and volume flow rate as well as retentate side pressure. The reactor performance was characterized by ammonia conversion, hydrogen recovery, and recovered hydrogen flow rate. Pre-exponential factor and activation energy of ammonia reaction rate were obtained by equilibrium conversion and two-step parametric sweeping. It was found that ammonia conversion can be increased by about 33% compared to a conventional fixed-bed reactor under the same operating conditions. H2 recovery can be enhanced when the reactant inlet temperature and the pressure difference between the retentate and permeate sides increase. The increase in feed NH3 flow rate (gas hourly space velocity, GHSV) decreased the ammonia conversion and H2 recovery. An optimum GHSV that results in a maximum recovered H2 flow rate can be found. Finally, optimum operation conditions for maximizing the hydrogen recovery and recovered hydrogen flow rate were analyzed using the multi-objective Non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-II (NSGA-II). It was found that maximum H2 recovery with a value of 79.7% can be obtained under the conditions of inlet temperature of 336 degrees C, GHSV of 900 h-1, and retentate side pressure of 9.9875 bar. The maximum recovered hydrogen flow rate with a value of 9:55 x10-14 (mol center dot s-1) can be obtained under the conditions of an inlet temperature of 394 degrees C, GHSV of 1315 h-1, and retentate side pressure of 9.9879 bar. (c) 2023 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | National of Science and Technology Council, Taiwan, R.O.C. [MOST 108-2221-E-006-127-MY3], National of Science and Technology Council, Taiwan, R.O.C. [MOST 110-2622-E-006-001-CC1], National of Science and Technology Council, Taiwan, R.O.C. [MOST 110-3116-F-006- 003-], Higher Education Sprout Project, Ministry of Education |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Ammonia decomposition; Membrane reactor; Ammonia conversion; Non-dominated sorting genetic; algorithm-II (NSGA-II) |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QD Chemistry T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering |
| Divisions: | Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation) Office > Nanotechnology & Catalysis Research Centre |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jun 2024 07:11 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2024 07:11 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/44232 |
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