TY - JOUR
T1 - Hydrogen generation from water, methane, and methanol with nonthermal plasma
AU - Kabashima, Hajime
AU - Einaga, Hisahiro
AU - Futamura, Shigeru
N1 - Funding Information:
Paper MSDAD-A 02–38, presented at the 2001 Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, September 30–October 5, and approved for publication in the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS by the Electrostatic Processes Committee of the IEEE Industry Applications Society. Manuscript submitted for review October 15, 2001 and released for publication November 22, 2002. The work of H. Kabashima and S. Futamura was supported in part by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization of Japan (NEDO).
PY - 2003/3
Y1 - 2003/3
N2 - Hydrogen generation from water, methane, and methanol was investigated with different types of nonthermal plasma reactors under different conditions. With a ferroelectric packed-bed reactor in N2, hydrogen gas yield decreased in the order: methanol > methane > water. A similar trend was observed with a silent discharge plasma reactor, but H2 yields were much lower with the latter reactor. At fixed specific energy densities, higher H2 yields were obtained at higher gas flow rates in the reactions of the above substrates. The initial water concentration was optimized at ca. 2.0% to obtain the highest rate for H2 formation. Under the same conditions, H2 yield decreased in the order: Ar > N2 > air ≈ O2. The ferroelectric packed-bed reactor could be operated continuously for 10 h without any decrease in its performance in the H2 generation from water.
AB - Hydrogen generation from water, methane, and methanol was investigated with different types of nonthermal plasma reactors under different conditions. With a ferroelectric packed-bed reactor in N2, hydrogen gas yield decreased in the order: methanol > methane > water. A similar trend was observed with a silent discharge plasma reactor, but H2 yields were much lower with the latter reactor. At fixed specific energy densities, higher H2 yields were obtained at higher gas flow rates in the reactions of the above substrates. The initial water concentration was optimized at ca. 2.0% to obtain the highest rate for H2 formation. Under the same conditions, H2 yield decreased in the order: Ar > N2 > air ≈ O2. The ferroelectric packed-bed reactor could be operated continuously for 10 h without any decrease in its performance in the H2 generation from water.
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U2 - 10.1109/TIA.2003.808968
DO - 10.1109/TIA.2003.808968
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0038692412
SN - 0093-9994
VL - 39
SP - 340
EP - 345
JO - IEEE Transactions on Applications and Industry
JF - IEEE Transactions on Applications and Industry
IS - 2
ER -