Catalytic Microreactors for Portable Power Generation (eBook)

Symeon Karagiannidis (Autor)

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2011 | 2011
XVI, 112 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-17668-5 (ISBN)

Infos

'Catalytic Microreactors for Portable Power Generation' addresses a problem of high relevance and increased complexity in energy technology. This thesis outlines an investigation into catalytic and gas-phase combustion characteristics in channel-flow, platinum-coated microreactors. The emphasis of the study is on microreactor/microturbine concepts for portable power generation and the fuels of interest are methane and propane. The author carefully describes numerical and experimental techniques, providing a new insight into the complex interactions between chemical kinetics and molecular transport processes, as well as giving the first detailed report of hetero-/homogeneous chemical reaction mechanisms for catalytic propane combustion. The outcome of this work will be widely applied to the industrial design of micro- and mesoscale combustors.

Inhalt

Nomenclature Introduction Experimental setup Numerical models Experimental and numerical investigation of the hetero‑/homogeneous combustion of lean propane/air mixtures over platinum Experimental and numerical investigation of a propane‑fueled, catalytic, mesoscale combustor Hetero‑/homogeneous combustion and stability maps in methane‑fueled catalytic microreactors Stability of hetero‑/homogeneous combustion in propane‑ and methane‑fueled catalytic microreactors: channel confinement and molecular transport effects Numerical investigation on the start‑up of methane‑fueled, catalytic microreactors Conclusions Summary – Outlook

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.3.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Springer Theses
• Reihe/Serie: Springer Theses
• Zusatzinfo: XVI, 112 p.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Physikalische Chemie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: catalytic microreactors • heat transfer processes in microreactors • hetero-/homogeneous combustion • microscale combustion • numerical simulation of combustion processes
• ISBN-10: 3-642-17668-2 / 3642176682
• ISBN-13: 978-3-642-17668-5 / 9783642176685