Symeon Karagiannidis

Catalytic Microreactors for Portable Power Generation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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.

Produktdetails

• Springer Theses
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 80028983, 978-3-642-17667-8
• 2011
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9783642176678
• ISBN-10: 3642176674
• Artikelnr.: 32301088

Inhaltsangabe

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