Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7706681 | International Journal of Hydrogen Energy | 2018 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
With the increased production of shale gas through a new drilling technology of hydraulic fracturing, much attention has been directed to various utilization methods for ethane accounting for about 7% of shale gas. As an efficient utilization method for ethane, ethane steam reforming in a membrane reactor is proposed in this paper to provide improved reactant conversions and product yields thus leading to a reduced operating temperature. To assess techno-economic feasibility of ethane steam reforming in a membrane reactor, parametric studies focusing on a H2 selectivity and economic analysis predicting profitability from cash flow diagrams based on a purified hydrogen in Korea were performed simultaneously providing very useful design and economic guidelines to implement a membrane reactor for ethane steam reforming.
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Authors
Seonju Jeong, Sehwa Kim, Boreum Lee, Shin-Kun Ryi, Hankwon Lim,