Microscale combustion: Technology development and fundamental research

Y Ju, K Maruta - Progress in energy and combustion science, 2011 - Elsevier
The high energy density of hydrocarbon fuels creates a great opportunity to develop
combustion based micro-power generation systems to meet increasing demands for …

Ceramics and ceramic matrix composites for heat exchangers in advanced thermal systems—A review

A Sommers, Q Wang, X Han, C T'Joen, Y Park… - Applied Thermal …, 2010 - Elsevier
In air-conditioning and energy-recovery applications, heat exchangers are very important to
the overall efficiency, cost, and size of the system. Current heat exchanger designs rely …

Micro and mesoscale combustion

K Maruta - Proceedings of the combustion institute, 2011 - Elsevier
A review of research and development on micro and mesoscale combustion is presented,
with an emphasis on fundamental understandings achieved in the field during the last …

Microstructured reactors for distributed and renewable production of fuels and electrical energy

G Kolb - Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process …, 2013 - Elsevier
The current paper provides an overview of recent and past research activities in the field of
microreactors for energy related topics. The main research efforts in this field are currently …

Advancements in microreactor technology for hydrogen production via steam reforming: A comprehensive review of numerical studies

D Yadav, X Lu, BC Ma, D Jing - Journal of Power Sources, 2024 - Elsevier
Advancements in microreactor technology emerge as a promising solution for low-cost
hydrogen (H 2) production, and there is significant progress being made towards developing …

Numerical study of methanol–steam reforming and methanol–air catalytic combustion in annulus reactors for hydrogen production

R Chein, YC Chen, JN Chung - Applied Energy, 2013 - Elsevier
This study presents the numerical simulation on the performance of mini-scale reactors for
hydrogen production coupled with liquid methanol/water vaporizer, methanol/steam …

Modeling and Design of a Multi-Tubular Packed-Bed Reactor for Methanol Steam Reforming over a Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 Catalyst

J Zhu, SS Araya, X Cui, SL Sahlin, SK Kær - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
Methanol as a hydrogen carrier can be reformed with steam over Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalysts. In
this paper a comprehensive pseudo-homogenous model of a multi-tubular packed-bed …

Investigations on a new internally-heated tubular packed-bed methanol–steam reformer

P Nehe, VM Reddy, S Kumar - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
Small-scale reformers for hydrogen production through steam reforming of methanol can
provide an alternative solution to the demand of continuous supply of hydrogen gas for the …

Influence of inlet-nozzle and outlet-diffuser mounted in the plate-shape reactor on PEMFC net power output and methanol steam reforming performance

SW Perng, HW Wu - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
A proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) fueled from a plate-shape reactor under
steam reforming of methanol is believed to be an optimistic minute power source. This …

Experimental study on the performance of hydrogen production from miniature methanol–steam reformer integrated with Swiss-roll type combustor for PEMFC

RY Chein, YC Chen, CM Chang, JN Chung - Applied energy, 2013 - Elsevier
A miniature plate-type hydrogen production reactor using methanol as fuel was designed
and tested. This reactor is composed of a catalytic combustor, vaporizer, reformer, and …