Journal
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Volume 85, Issue -, Pages 1116-1126Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2015.07.068
Keywords
Aqueous phase reforming; Hydrogenolysis; Glycerol; Platinum; Hydrogen production
Funding
- European Union (European Social Fund - ESF)
- Greek national funds through the Operational Program Education and Lifelong Learning of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) - Research Funding Program: THALES: Investing in knowledge society through the European Social Fund [MIS 379333]
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The glycerol's APR reaction over 5% Pt/Al2O3 catalyst for H-2 production in a batch reactor is investigated in the present work. The effect of the operating parameters, such as the: i) reaction time, ii) operating temperature, iii) glycerol concentration and iv) catalyst concentration on: a) the gaseous and liquid products selectivity, b) the glycerol's conversion and c) the H-2 yield is investigated. Initially, the glycerol's APR is studied at various temperature (200, 220, 240 degrees C) and reaction time (30, 60, 120, 240 min), using 1 wt.% or 10 wt.% glycerol solution and 0.5, 1, 2.5 g of 5% Pt/Al2O3 catalyst weight. H-2, CO, CH4 and CO2 are mainly detected in the gaseous phase and acetaldehyde, acetone, methanol, ethanol, 1-propanol, acetol, lactic acid, propylene glycol and ethylene glycol, in the liquid one. It is found that the optimum conditions were: 1 g of 5% Pt/Al2O3, 1 wt.% glycerol solution, 240 degrees C and 4 h of reaction time. Under these conditions the total conversion of glycerol is found to be similar to 84% (similar to 41% of gaseous and similar to 39% of liquid products), H-2 yield 14.1%, CH4 yield 3.1% and propylene glycol (the main liquid product) yield 25%. It is also found that, for 2.5 g of 5% Pt/Al2O3, 1 wt.% glycerol solution, 240 degrees C and 4 h of reaction time results the total conversion of glycerol is found to be similar to 68% (similar to 45% of gaseous and 17% of liquid products), H-2 yield 16.5%, CH4 yield 7.4% and propylene glycol yield 8.1%. The increase of catalyst weight leads mostly to gaseous products. (c) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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