Study on efficiency of DCP for nuclear hydrogen production

TL99%TK91; With many advantages, hydrogen is considered as the fuel of the future. But there is no natural resource of hydrogen and it must be produced by other kinds of energy. As for the primary energy, nuclear energy is a promising alternative. Using heat from nuclear reactor to produce hydrogen...

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Published in:核技术（英文版） 2005-12, Vol.16 (6), p.371-375
Main Authors: LIN Qian, CAO Xue-Wu, JIANG Rui-Peng, ZHANG Xu
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Language:English
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Summary:TL99%TK91; With many advantages, hydrogen is considered as the fuel of the future. But there is no natural resource of hydrogen and it must be produced by other kinds of energy. As for the primary energy, nuclear energy is a promising alternative. Using heat from nuclear reactor to produce hydrogen is receiving more and more concerns in recent years. This paper mainly emphasizes the study of the direct contact pyrolysis (DCP) of methane using heat from nuclear reactor. A facility was designed to investigate the efficiency of DCP process in certain conditions. The experimental results show that this process produces only hydrogen and carbon. The conversion efficiency increases with temperature and residence time, but decreases as flow rate increases. The highest efficiency of DCP obtained in this experiment is about 22%.
ISSN:1001-8042