Surface Reaction Kinetics of the Oxidation and Reforming of CH4 over Rh/Al2O3 Catalysts

Canan Karakaya, Lubow Maier, Olaf Deutschmann

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Abstract

An 48-step sur face reaction mechanism with thermodynamic consistent kinetic data is presented for the catalytic conversion of the gaseous chemical system H2/O2/H2O/CO/CO2/CH4 over Rh/Al2O3 catalysts. Total and partial oxidation as well as steam reforming and dry reforming of methane over Rh catalysts is studied experimentally and numerically at varying temperature and composition. The results are used to extend the kinetic schemes we developed for H2 oxidation, CO oxidation kinetics, and the water-gas-shift reactions in former studies. Aside from the experiments in a stagnation-flow reactor presented here, we modeled a number of experiments from the literature to test the newly established kinetic scheme.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)144-160
Number of pages17
JournalInternational Journal of Chemical Kinetics
Volume48
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1 2016
Externally publishedYes

Funding

This work was supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). We gratefully acknowledge R. J. Kee (Colorado School of Mines) for collaboration during the reactor development and for fruitful discussions. A cost‐free academic license of DETCHEM™ by the Steinbeis GmbH & Co. KG für Technologietransfer (STZ 240 Reaktive Strömung) is gratefully acknowledged. We also thank S. Tischer and Hüseyin Karadeniz, both KIT, for their support with the computations. This work was supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). We gratefully acknowledge R. J. Kee (Colorado School of Mines) for collaboration during the reactor development and for fruitful discussions. A costfree academic license of DETCHEMTM by the Steinbeis GmbH & Co. KG für Technologietransfer (STZ 240 Reaktive Strömung) is gratefully acknowledged. We also thank S. Tischer and Hüseyin Karadeniz, both KIT, for their support with the computations.

FundersFunder number
Steinbeis GmbH & Co
Colorado School of Mines
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

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