SUBJECT: | Ph.D. Proposal Presentation |
BY: | Thomas Yun |
TIME: | Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 9:00 a.m. |
PLACE: | Love Building, 109 |
TITLE: | Fuel Reformation and Hydrogen Generation in Variable-Volume Membrane Batch Reactors with Dynamic Liquid Fuel Introduction |
COMMITTEE: | Dr. Andrei Fedorov, Chair (ME) Dr. Timothy Lieuwen (AE/ME) Dr. Caroline Genzale (ME) Dr. Peter Kottke (ME) Dr. Christopher Jones (CHBE) |
SUMMARY
The proposed research focuses on liquid hydrocarbon fuel reformation and hydrogen generation for mobile, portable, and small-scale distributed power application. A new multifunctional reactor concept will be investigated, which combines direct droplet impingement and on-contact rapid evaporation/reaction of fuel on a heated catalyst (as inspired by the “Direct Droplet Impingement Reactor”/DDIR approach) with a variable volume batch reactor integrated with hydrogen selective membrane (as inspired by “CO2/H2 Active Membrane Piston”/CHAMP reactor design), aiming to achieve the maximum volumetric power density as well as on-demand dynamic variation in hydrogen throughput without sacrificing fuel conversion. This work will include experimental and theoretical components and focus on the following key research objectives |