期刊名称：International Journal of Energy and Environment
印刷版ISSN：2076-2895
电子版ISSN：2076-2909
出版年度：2010
卷号：1
期号：4
页码：607-616
出版社：International Energy and Environment Foundation (IEEF)
摘要：A bench scale unit has been designed and developed indigenously for producing hydrogen from methane in the presence of a catalyst. Five number carbon samples (two carbon blacks and three activated carbons) of different origin procured from Indian market have been investigated in the bench scale unit with stainless steel continuous fixed bed reactor at a constant temperature of 850 0C and space velocity (VHSV) of 1.62 Lit/hr.g. Among all the five samples, activated carbon produced from coconut shells with BET surface area of 1185 m2/g showed promising activity with a sustainability factor (R1/R0) of 0.33 and initial activity (R0) of 0.623 mmol/min.g of catalyst. Accumulated carbon yield (over a period of four hours) of the above catalyst is 564 mg/g of catalyst.
