太阳能高温电解水蒸气制氢系统热力学分析

本文对太阳能高温电解水蒸气制氢系统进行了设计.该系统以太阳能为唯一的一次能源,采用太阳能分频技术,提供高温电解水蒸气制氢所需的电能和热能.此外,利用余热回收器回收电解产物的余热.热力学分析表明:(1)系统制氢效率可达34.8%;(2)太阳能聚光-分频热电联产装置是系统能量和(火用)损失最大的环节.提高电解温度和降低操作电压可减小电解环节的(火用)损失.     

太阳能甲醇重整制氢-发电联产系统

基于不同用能系统整合和能的综合梯级利用思路,研究提出一种新颖的太阳能甲醇重整制氢-发电联产系统.将太阳能甲醇重整制氢与发电有机整合,不仅合理地利用中低温太阳能,同时实现甲醇重整制氢弛放气的综合利用.新的联产系统具有优良的热力性能,化石能源的相对节能率达到29%,制氢单位能耗降低为0.85 GJ/GJ-H2.研究表明,减小能量转化传递过程的品位差和合理利用太阳能热是系统节能的关键所在.研究成果将为太阳能多功能能源系统发展提供新方案与新思路.     

Review of proton conductors for hydrogen separation

There is a global push to develop a range of hydrogen technologies for timely adoption of the hydrogen economy. This is critical in view of the depleting oil reserves and looming transport fuel shortage, global warming, and increasing pollution. Molecular hydrogen (H₂) can be generated by a number of renewable and fossil-fuel-based resources. However, given the high cost of H₂ generation by renewable energy at this stage, fossil or carbon fuels are likely to meet the short- to medium-term demand for hydrogen. In view of this, effective technologies are required for the separation of H₂ from a gas feed (by-products of coal or bio-mass gasification plants, or gases from fossil fuel partial oxidation or reforming) consisting mainly of H₂ and CO₂ with small quantities of other gases such as CH₄, CO, H₂O, and traces of sulphur compounds. Several technologies are under development for hydrogen separation. One such technology is based on ion transport membranes, which conduct protons or both protons and electrons. Although these materials have been considered for other applications, such as gas sensors, fuel cells and water electrolysis, the interest in their use as gas separation membranes has developed only recently. In this paper, various classes of proton-conducting materials have been reviewed with specific emphasis on their potential use as H₂ separation membranes in the industrial processes of coal gasification, natural gas reforming, methanol reforming and the water–gas shift (WGS) reaction. Key material requirements for their use in these applications have been discussed.     

含氧有机物催化重整制备纯氢

研究了一种新的利用含氧化合物制备纯氢的催化变换过程,该过程耦合了含氧化合物的催化重整、水煤气变换反应和CO₂去除步骤. 详细研究了重整催化剂的筛选、反应条件以及不同的含氧化合物催化重整行为. 利用所述集成方法获得的最高氢气浓度为99.96vol%和最大转化率为97.1mol%. 此外,通过含氧化合物的解离、催化重整和水煤气变换反应研究,探讨了含氧化合物制备纯氢的相关反应路径.     

Ti-doped nano-porous graphene: A material for hydrogen storage and sensor

Clustering of Ti on carbon nanostructures has proved to be an obstacle in their use as hydrogen storagematerials. Using density functional theory we show that Ti atoms will not cluster at moderate concentrations when doped into nanoporous graphene. Since each Ti atom can bind up to three hydrogen molecules with an average binding energy of 0.54 eV/H₂, this material can be ideal for storing hydrogen under ambient thermodynamic conditions. In addition, nanoporous graphene is magnetic with or without Ti doping, but when it is fully saturated with hydrogen, the magnetism disappears. This novel feature suggests that nanoporous graphene cannot only be used for storing hydrogen, but also as a hydrogen sensor.     

Energy,Exergy, Exergoeconomic and Exergoenvironmental Impact Analyses and Optimization of Various Geothermal Power Cycle Configurations

Energy, exergy, and exergoeconomic evaluations of various geothermal configurations are reported. The main operational and economic parameters of the cycles are evaluated and compared. Multi-objective optimization of the cycles is conducted using the artificial bee colony algorithm. A sensitivity assessment is carried out on the effect of production well temperature variation on system performance from energy and economic perspectives. The results show that the flash-binary cycle has the highest thermal and exergy efficiencies, at 15.6% and 64.3%, respectively. The highest generated power cost and pay-back period are attributable to the simple organic Rankine cycle (ORC). Raising the well-temperature can increase the exergy destruction rate in all configurations. However, the electricity cost and pay-back period decrease. Based on the results, in all cases, the exergoenvironmental impact improvement factor decreases, and the temperature rises. The exergy destruction ratio and efficiency of all components for each configuration are calculated and compared. It is found that, at the optimum state, the exergy efficiencies of the simple organic Rankine cycle, single flash, double flash, and flash-binary cycles respectively are 14.7%, 14.4%, 12.6%, and 14.1% higher than their relevant base cases, while the pay-back periods are 10.6%, 1.5% 1.4%, and 0.6% lower than the base cases.     

Theoretical analysis on the exergy destruction mechanisms and reduction under LTC relevant conditions

Low temperature combustion (LTC) is a potential thermodynamic pathway to maximize the thermal efficiency of internal combustion (IC) engines. However, high exergy loss is also observed within this combustion concept. The present study focuses on the homogeneous combustion process and examines the detailed exergy destruction mechanisms under representative LTC engine conditions. By varying both equivalence ratios (φ) and temperatures (T) at initial pressure of 50?bar, it is found that the decreased total exergy destruction fraction (f_ED) with increasing initial temperature mainly results from the decreased exergy destruction in the high temperature heat release stage, while using rich mixture can significantly reduce the f_ED in the ignition delay stage, which is dominated by the reactions involving large molecules (C7 species). Reaction pathway analysis reveals that the detailed exergy destruction sources are significantly affected by the reaction pathways. Furthermore, a qualitative exergy loss φ-T map was created to illustrate the exergy loss reduction potential. It is concluded that the combustion pathway that reforming the rich fuel/air mixtures before ignition followed by the low temperature combustion of lean reforming products offers the potential to simultaneously reduce exergy destruction and avoid soot and NOx formation. However, the potential advantages of this exergy reduction combustion concept still require further work.     

基于化学链燃烧的氢氧联合循环

提出一种新颖的基于化学链的氢氧联合动力循环系统,该系统利用透平余热提供化学链中天然气和Fe3O4反应热,将余热转换为高品位化学能。系统综合了化学链零能耗分离CO2和氢氧联合循环高效率的优点。与化学链燃烧联合循环相比,该循环取消了余热锅炉和底循环,系统内能量品位匹配更加合理。根据图像分析方法,阐明了化学链氢氧联合循环中损...     

(H2O)6的稳定结构及异构过程研究

(H₂O)₆是形成三维立体结构的最小水分子团簇并具有能量较低的多个稳定异构体.本文利用从头计算方法研究了各稳定结构的异构化过程.(H₂O)₆的环状结构与最稳定结构的能量差0.31 eV为一个氢键的键能.水分子团簇的异构化是分子间氢键打开或重组的过程,不同异构体之间的转化每次只涉及一个氢键的打开或重组,异构化的能垒高度在0.07—0.21 eV之间. 关键词： 水分子团簇 2O)₆')" href="#">(H₂O)₆ 异构化过程 从头计算     

Performance and Exergy Analyses of a Solar Assisted Heat Pump with Seasonal Heat Storage and Grey Water Heat Recovery Unit

The main research objective of this paper was to compare exergy performance of three different heat pump (HP)-based systems and one natural gas (NG)-based system for the production of heating and cooling energy in a single-house dwelling. The study considered systems based on: 1. A NG and auxiliary cooling unit; 2. Solely HP, 3. HP with additional seasonal heat storage (SHS) and a solar thermal collector (STC); 4. HP with SHS, a STC and a grey water (GW) recovery unit. The assessment of exergy efficiencies for each case was based on the transient systems simulation program TRNSYS, which was used for the simulation of energy use for space heating and cooling of the building, sanitary hot water production, and the thermal response of the seasonal heat storage and solar thermal system. The results show that an enormous waste of exergy is observed by the system based on an NG boiler (with annual overall exergy efficiency of 0.11) in comparison to the most efficient systems, based on HP water–water with a seasonal heat storage and solar thermal collector with the efficiency of 0.47. The same system with an added GW unit exhibits lower water temperatures, resulting in the exergy efficiency of 0.43. The other three systems, based on air–, water–, and ground–water HPs, show significantly lower annual source water temperatures (10.9, 11.0, 11.0, respectively) compared to systems with SHS and SHS + GW, with temperatures of 28.8 and 19.3 K, respectively.     

Study on CH4 dry reforming process by high power inductively coupled plasma torch at atmospheric pressure

CO₂ dissociation and CH₄ dry reforming, by high power inductively coupled plasma (ICP) torch at atmospheric pressure, have been studied. At a frequency of 400 kHz and power of 30 kW, the ICP torch source dissociates CO₂ gas directly, causing CH₄ dry reforming. The resulting products are composed of syngas, C₂H₆, C₂H₄, and C₂H₂. The results show conversion efficiencies (CE) for both CO₂ and CH₄ of 95%. At an input power of 22 kW, a CO₂ flow rate of 30 SLM, and a CH₄ flow rate of 36 SLM, the energy conversion efficiency (ECE) is 57%. As input CH₄ flow rate increases, the selectivity of CO and H₂ decreases and that of C₂ hydrocarbons increases. In this condition, ECE increases. As a result, the high CE of CO₂ and CH₄, the large amount of products, and the high selectivity of C₂ hydrocarbons can be seen as important factors for achieving higher energy conversion efficiency in the CH₄ dry reforming process. The associated chemical reactions are simulated using CHEMKIN-PRO tool, and the results illustrate the tendency of CE to vary with variations in selected parameters, and syngas and C₂ hydrocarbons production trends achieved in the simulation agree with experimental results.     

Spectroscopic studies of UV production from ARC sources in iodine laser gas mixtures

Time-integrated spectral measurements of the light from multiple arc sources in iodine laser gas mixtures (He:SF₆:i-C₃F₇I and Ar:SF₆:i-C₃F₇I) are described. Copious soft-UV output, fully sufficient as a pump source, is observed with no adverse decrease in UV production for i-C₃F₇I concentrations as high as 3% by volume. Conversion efficiencies of 3–4% for stored electrical energy into UV radiation within the iodide compound band were determined.     

Theoretical characterization of axial deformation effects on hydrogen storage of Ti decorated armchair (5,5) SWCNT

Theoretical calculations have been performed in the framework of density functional theory to characterize the effect of axial deformation on hydrogen storage of Ti decorated armchair (5,5) SWCNT. The theoretical characterization has been carried out in terms of H₂ adsorption energies that are lying in the desirable energy window (?0.2 to ?0.6?eV) recommended by DOE, as well as a variety of physicochemical properties. A remarkable and significant change in H₂ adsorption energy is observed under the effect of only (1%) axial strain. Axial relaxation leads to H₂ adsorption energies within the recommended energy range for hydrogen storage, in contrast to axial compression. Simultaneous weakening of π and σ interactions, due to the effect of axial relaxation and loss of spatial orbital overlap, is in favor of hydrogen adsorption in the recommended energy range, and dominates the effect of charge transfer from Ti 3d to C 2p of the SWCNT. The calculated pairwise and non pairwise additive components confirm that the role of the SWCNT is not restricted to supporting the metal. Polarizability and hperpolarizabilty calculations as well as spectral analysis characterize the relaxed structure (Z?=?1.02), for which H₂ adsorption energy (?0.34?eV) is in the recommended energy range for hydrogen storage, to be energetically more preferable than the compressed structure (Z?=?0.99). The results offer a way to control and characterize the hydrogenation process of metal functionalized SWCNTs by strain loading.     

利用LNG冷(火用)的准零CO2排放循环探析

本文研究利用LNG冷(火用)来完善燃用它的热机性能,既提高了效率,又能回收用LNG燃料热机的唯一主要排放-CO2.这种系统的温度区间横跨大气温度,会有很多新的特点值得探索.作为前期研究,本文建议了两种新循环,分别基于Brayton循环与超临界Rankine循环,且分别适用于LNG超临界及亚临界汽化过程.文中对此两种循环进行了分析计算与讨论,说明建议是可行的,热机效率可达60%以上,且同时基本回收所有燃烧产生的CO2.     

Energy and exergy analysis of a solid oxide fuel cell plant fueled by ethanol and methane

The method of exergy analysis is presented for a SOFC power plant involving external steam reforming and fueled by ethanol and methane. The optimal operation parameters of the integrated SOFC plant are specified after minimizing the existing energy and exergy losses. A comparison of methane and ethanol as appropriate fuels for a SOFC-based power plant is provided in terms of exergetic efficiency assuming the minimum allowable (for carbon-free operation) reforming factors for both cases. Then, a parametric analysis provides guidelines for practical design. It is concluded that the exergy calculations pinpoint the losses accurately and that the exergy analysis gives a better insight of the system's process. Paper presented at the 9th EuroConference on Ionics, Ixia, Rhodes, Greece, Sept. 15 – 21, 2002.     

新型焦电联产系统集成与特性分析

本文针对传统焦炭生产工艺的不足、并应用联产系统整合思路,研究提出新型焦炭动力联产系统.新系统取消了传统炼焦工艺中直接燃用焦炉煤气为炭化室提供炼焦热量的方式,采用外置煤炭燃烧室提供热量,从而实现用低品质煤炭替代高品质焦炉煤气;节省下来的富氢、高热值的焦炉煤气作为燃料提供给联合循环,实现高效洁净发电;改进炼焦过程烟气废热回收方式,使得排烟损失大大降低.分析结果表明,新系统具有优良的热力性能,相对节能率高达15%左右.对系统关键过程的图像(火用)分析分析表明,燃烧过程和换热过程等变革与改进是系统性能提升的关键所在.本文研究将为冶金生产的可持续发展提供新思路与新系统方案.     

电流对苯甲醚电催化重整过程的影响

用电催化重整方法和NiCuZn-Al₂O₃催化剂进行生物油模型化合物苯甲醚的水蒸气重整制氢研究,结果表明,在700 oC和4 A条件下,获得的最高碳转化率和氢产率分别为98.3%和88.7%,电催化重整过程中发现的电流促进效应主要归结于重整反应床中温度分布的改变和电阻丝发射的热电子影响. 利用X射线衍射方法分析了反应前后的NiCuZn-Al₂O₃催化剂结构变化. 实验导出的苯甲醚重整反应表观活化能为99.54 kJ/mol,明显高于乙醇、乙酸和生物油轻质组分的重整反应表观活化能.     

蓄热式催化重整氢发生器的研究

本文提出了一种可用于内燃机的新的制氢方案。以往的研究者只关心一方面,主要研究催化重整制氢,或者是蓄热式换热等。蓄热式催化重整氢发生器是将这两点结合,即蜂窝状蓄热体与重整反应结合起来所设计的。它既有催化重整反应器的优势,又有蓄热体的优势,可以利用蓄热体的快速换热性质,快速地产生氢气,是一种新型氢发生器。     

多种金属掺杂的镍基催化剂用于中温重整生物油制氢的设计

一种新的由共沉淀法合成的多种金属(铜、镁、铈)掺杂的镍基混合氧化物催化剂,在250～500 oC用于生物油高效重整制氢. 摩尔比为Ni:Cu:Mg:Ce:Al=5.6:1.1:1.9:1.0:9.9的催化剂表现出较高的催化重整活性,在传统的水蒸气重整模式和500 oC条件下,氢产率达82.8%;电催化重整模式中,在400 oC 和3.1 A,氢产率达91.1%.ECR模式中重整温度和通过催化剂电流促进生物油的重整和热裂解.另外催化剂在300～600 oC显示出较高的水煤气变化反应活性,生物油重整过程中催化剂性质的变化利用ICP、XRD、XPS和BET进行了表征. 生物油重整机理基于基元反应、催化剂表征进行了讨论.     

Application of atmospheric pressure microwave plasma source for production of hydrogen via methane reforming

In this paper, results of hydrogen production via methane pyrolysis in the atmospheric pressure microwave plasma with CH₄ swirl are presented. A waveguide-based nozzleless cylinder-type microwave plasma source (MPS) was used to convert methane into hydrogen. The plasma generation was stabilized by a CH₄ swirl having a flow rate of 87.5 L min^-1. The absorbed microwave power was 1.5–5 kW. The hydrogen production rate and the corresponding energy efficiency were 866 g (H₂) h^-1 and 577 g (H₂) kWh^-1 of microwave energy absorbed by the plasma, respectively. These parameters are better than our previous results when nitrogen was used as a swirl gas and much better than those typical for other plasma methods of hydrogen production (electron beam, gliding arc, plasmatron).