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Book Fuel rich Catalytic Combustion

Download or read book Fuel rich Catalytic Combustion written by Theodore A. Brabbs and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Introduction to Catalytic Combustion

Download or read book Introduction to Catalytic Combustion written by R.E. Hayes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a clear and concise manner, this book explains how to apply concepts in chemical reaction engineering and transport phenomena to the design of catalytic combustion systems. Although there are many textbooks on the subject of chemical reaction engineering, catalytic combustion is mentioned either only briefly or not at all. The authors have chosen three examples where catalytic combustion is utilized as a primary combustion process and natural gas is used as a fuel - stationary gas turbines, process fluid heaters, and radiant heaters; these cover much of the area where research is currently most active. In each of these there are clear environmental benefits to be gained illustrating catalytic combustion as a "cleaner primary combustion process" . The dominant heat transfer processes in each of the applications are different, as are the support systems, flow geometrics and operating conditions.

Book Understanding and Improving Catalytic Hydrocarbon Combustion Using Well defined Noble Metal based Nanocrystals

Download or read book Understanding and Improving Catalytic Hydrocarbon Combustion Using Well defined Noble Metal based Nanocrystals written by An-Chih Yang and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasingly stringent regulations on exhaust emissions create significant demands for high-performing automotive emission control catalysts. Emission control catalysts typically consist of large quantities of noble metals (e.g. platinum and palladium), which are expensive and environmentally damaging materials to extract. To develop efficient catalysts where the use of noble metals is optimized, fundamental understanding of catalytic hydrocarbon combustion would be beneficial. Yet, hydrocarbons with varying molecular structures pose a variety of challenges for this process. Therefore, this dissertation aims to study the mechanistic difference between catalytic combustion of alkane and alkene, and propose design for improved emission control catalysts. Propane and propene were chosen as the model compounds. A library of uniform Pd/Pt nanocrystal catalysts with control over composition and size were employed to study the structure-property relationships on the combustion of propene and propane. Since high levels of water always exist in automotive exhausts, the catalytic reactions in this dissertation were always performed in the presence of water, providing a complete understanding of the role of water on reaction kinetics. The first portion of this dissertation provides insights and comparison of structure-property relationships in propane and propene catalytic combustion. Synthetic conditions were optimized to generate uniform Pd/Pt nanocrystals with control over Pd/Pt ratios. Using the uniform nanocrystals, several important variables including Pd/Pt composition, support, phase and aging stability were studied. The important findings are outlined here: first, Pt-rich Pd/Pt/Al2O3 and Pt/Al2O3 were found to be the best performing samples for propene and propane combustion, respectively. From DFT calculations, propene was found to chemisorb, while propane only physisorb on the noble metal surface, which results in the opposite trends in the rate order results. Finally, equimolar Pd/Pt/Al2O3 and Pt/Al2O3 were found to exhibit the best catalytic performance after aging in propene and propane combustion, respectively. A relationship between structural sensitivity and the degree of aging resistance was found to correlate the aging stability results for both reactions. The second portion of the dissertation identifies the active sites for propene combustion. A library of Pd/Pt nanocrystals with equimolar ratio ranging from 2.3 to 10.2 nm was prepared. From the turnover frequencies and rate order results, it is observed that larger Pd/Pt nanocrystals show higher reactivity in propene combustion and sensitivity to the change in the partial pressure of reactants. We employed DFT calculations to demonstrate that water drives surface reconstruction and exposes undercoordinated sites, which are more efficient at breaking bonds in representative elementary steps in propene combustion, compared to high coordinated sites. We further developed a coordination-based model to reveal that the edge sites with (7-7) as the coordination numbers are the active-site ensemble for propene combustion. The third portion of this dissertation unravels the role of support acidity in propane combustion. A library of Pt/support with controlled Brønsted acidity was prepared with uniform Pt nanocrystals. The sample with higher Brønsted acid sites was found to have higher activity in propane combustion, as well as higher resistance to water poisoning. Using the Langmuir-Hinshelwood model, we demonstrated that supports with higher Brønsted acid site density are more hydrophobic and help reduce water coverage on Pt sites, resulting in more available sites and higher reaction rates in propane combustion. The last part of the dissertation proposes better emission control catalysts by Pt-based bimetallic nanocrystal catalysts. A seed-mediated colloidal synthesis method to produce uniform PtxM100-x (M = Cu, Co, Ni and Mn) nanocrystals with controlled size and composition was introduced. Together with DFT calculations, we created an experimental-guided volcano map to offer guidance to design catalysts with desired electronic structures, that are promising for emission control performances. Moreover, Pt/Cu was identified as the most active bimetallic sample in propene combustion. We further demonstrated that Pt/Cu have desired binding energies to C* and O*, creating more active surfaces for propene combustion. In summary, this dissertation focuses on the understanding of catalytic hydrocarbon combustion and the design of improved catalysts for emission control applications. Well-defined catalytic systems were created through the use of colloidal nanocrystals with control over size, shape and composition. With such systems, active sites and important metal-support interactions were identified for both propene combustion and propane combustion, respectively. Finally, Pt-based bimetallic nanocrystal systems were proposed to offer guidance for improved emission control catalysts.

Book Fuel Cells  Technologies for Fuel Processing

Download or read book Fuel Cells Technologies for Fuel Processing written by Dushyant Shekhawat and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-03-18 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fuel Cells: Technologies for Fuel Processing provides an overview of the most important aspects of fuel reforming to the generally interested reader, researcher, technologist, teacher, student, or engineer. The topics covered include all aspects of fuel reforming: fundamental chemistry, different modes of reforming, catalysts, catalyst deactivation, fuel desulfurization, reaction engineering, novel reforming concepts, thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer issues, system design, and recent research and development. While no attempt is made to describe the fuel cell itself, there is sufficient description of the fuel cell to show how it affects the fuel reformer. By focusing on the fundamentals, this book aims to be a source of information now and in the future. By avoiding time-sensitive information/analysis (e.g., economics) it serves as a single source of information for scientists and engineers in fuel processing technology. The material is presented in such a way that this book will serve as a reference for graduate level courses, fuel cell developers, and fuel cell researchers. Chapters written by experts in each area Extensive bibliography supporting each chapter Detailed index Up-to-date diagrams and full colour illustrations

Book Catalytic Ignition of Hydrogen and Hydrogen Hydrocarbon Blends Over Noble Metals

Download or read book Catalytic Ignition of Hydrogen and Hydrogen Hydrocarbon Blends Over Noble Metals written by Nickolai M. Rubtsov and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the issues on noble metal influence on gaseous combustion. The book focuses on the new data on combustion processes having practical applications and includes fire safety issues in the use of noble metals in hydrogen recombiners for NPP, as well as in catalytically stabilized (CS) combustion technology including stimulation of combustion of hydrogen-blended hydrocarbons, synthesis of carbon nanotubes, and determination of catalytic ignition limits in noble metal-hydrogen-hydrocarbon systems to meet the challenges of explosion safety.

Book A Preliminary Investigation of Catalytic Combustion Under Flow Conditions

Download or read book A Preliminary Investigation of Catalytic Combustion Under Flow Conditions written by Arthur C. Lowell and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalytic Combustion

Download or read book Catalytic Combustion written by Sophie A. Cottilard and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalytic combustion has been developed as a method of promoting efficient combustion over a wide range of air-to-fuel ratios with a minimum pollutant formation at low temperatures as compared to conventional flame combustion. In this book, the authors present current research in the study of catalytic combustion including commercial and industrial research in combustion and fluidisation engineering; the catalytic combustion of soot; using metal oxides to improve catalytic efficiency; catalytic combustion in the removal of pollutants from exhaust gases and in the energy conversion field and the catalytic combustion of methane using ceria-zirconia.

Book Catalytic Combustion of the Light Hydrocarbon Fuels in the Presence of a Corona Discharge in an Annular Reactor

Download or read book Catalytic Combustion of the Light Hydrocarbon Fuels in the Presence of a Corona Discharge in an Annular Reactor written by Steven A. Martin and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New and Future Developments in Catalysis

Download or read book New and Future Developments in Catalysis written by Steven L Suib and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New and Future Developments in Catalysis is a package of seven books that compile the latest ideas concerning alternate and renewable energy sources and the role that catalysis plays in converting new renewable feedstock into biofuels and biochemicals. Both homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts and catalytic processes will be discussed in a unified and comprehensive approach. There will be extensive cross-referencing within all volumes.The various sources of environmental pollution are the theme of this volume. The volume lists all current environmentally friendly catalytic chemical processes used for environmental remediation and critically compares their economic viability. Offers in-depth coverage of all catalytic topics of current interest and outlines future challenges and research areas A clear and visual description of all parameters and conditions, enabling the reader to draw conclusions for a particular case Outlines the catalytic processes applicable to energy generation and design of green processes

Book Methane Conversion

Download or read book Methane Conversion written by D.M. Bibby and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1988-03-01 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings volume comprises the invited plenary lectures, contributed and poster papers presented at a symposium organised to mark the successful inauguration of the world's first commercial plant for production of gasoline from natural gas, based on the Mobil methanol-to-gasoline process. The objectives of the Symposium were to present both fundamental research and engineering aspects of the development and commercialization of gas-to-gasoline processes. These include steam reforming, methanol synthesis and methanol-to-gasoline. Possible alternative processes e.g. MOGD, Fischer-Tropsch synthesis of hydrocarbons, and the direct conversion of methane to higher hydrocarbons were also considered.The papers in this volume provide a valuable and extremely wide-ranging overview of current research into the various options for natural gas conversion, giving a detailed description of the gas-to-gasoline process and plant. Together, they represent a unique combination of fundamental surface chemistry catalyst characterization, reaction chemistry and engineering scale-up and commercialization.

Book Spillover and Mobility of Species on Solid Surfaces

Download or read book Spillover and Mobility of Species on Solid Surfaces written by A. Guerrero-Ruiz and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2001-08-02 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Spillover and Mobility of Species and Solid Surfaces" collects the papers which were presented at the Fifth International Conference Spillover, either as oral or poster contributions, as well as the summaries of the invited lectures. This congress and its publication in the Studies on Surface Science and Catalysis series follow the tradition of previous conferences on spillover, initiated in Lyon, 1983, and continued in Leipzig, 1989, Kyoto 1993 and Dalian, 1997. For the fifth conference, held in S.L. el Escorial (Madrid), the organising committee has attempted to compile representative contributions which illustrate the advances in understanding the spillover phenomenon since 1997. Spillover is a process taking place during the interface of gas reactant molecules (mainly hydrogen and oxygen) on solid surfaces. However, different contributions to the more general area of the chemistry at surfaces, related with the mobility and migration of species, diffusion through membranes, fuel cell catalysts, etc., have also been included. In fact the title of the present volume summarizes this attempt to extend the conference topics towards dynamics at surfaces.Among the 70 contributions received, the 56 accepted papers were selected on the basis of the reports of at least two international reviewers, according to standards comparable to those applied for other specialised journals. These papers are from 21 different countries.

Book Industrial Gas Turbines

Download or read book Industrial Gas Turbines written by A M Y Razak and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrial Gas Turbines: Performance and Operability explains important aspects of gas turbine performance such as performance deterioration, service life and engine emissions. Traditionally, gas turbine performance has been taught from a design perspective with insufficient attention paid to the operational issues of a specific site. Operators are not always sufficiently familiar with engine performance issues to resolve operational problems and optimise performance.Industrial Gas Turbines: Performance and Operability discusses the key factors determining the performance of compressors, turbines, combustion and engine controls. An accompanying engine simulator CD illustrates gas turbine performance from the perspective of the operator, building on the concepts discussed in the text. The simulator is effectively a virtual engine and can be subjected to operating conditions that would be dangerous and damaging to an engine in real-life conditions. It also deals with issues of engine deterioration, emissions and turbine life. The combined use of text and simulators is designed to allow the reader to better understand and optimise gas turbine operation. Discusses the key factors in determining the perfomance of compressors, turbines, combustion and engine controls Explains important aspects of gas and turbine perfomance such as service life and engine emissions Accompanied by CD illustrating gas turbine performance, building on the concepts discussed in the text

Book Ullmann s Energy

Download or read book Ullmann s Energy written by Wiley-VCH and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 2189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume handbook contains a wealth of information on energy sources, energy generation and storage, fossil and renewable fuels as well as the associated processing technology. Fossil as well as renewable fuels, nuclear technology, power generation and storage technologies are treated side by side, providing a unique overview of the entire global energy industry. The result is an in-depth survey of industrial-scale energy technology. Your personal ULLMANN’S: A carefully selected "best of" compilation of topical articles brings the vast knowledge of the Ullmann’s encyclopedia to the desks of energy and process engineers Chemical and physical characteristics, production processes and production figures, main applications, toxicology and safety information are all found here in one single resource New or updated articles include classical topics such as coal technologies, oil and gas as well as cutting-edge technologies like biogas, thermoelectricty and solar technology 3 Volumes

Book CATALYTIC COMBUSTION OF HYDROCARBONS

Download or read book CATALYTIC COMBUSTION OF HYDROCARBONS written by N.T. THOMAS and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New and Future Developments in Catalysis

Download or read book New and Future Developments in Catalysis written by Joanna Łojewska and published by Elsevier Inc. Chapters. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: