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Categorie Soggetti
Energy & Fuels","Environmental Sciences","Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical
The cyclohexane/benzene/hydrogen chemical heat pump (CHP) cycle is a h
opeful way of backing up the UT-3 system or the world energy network s
ystem for heat and hydrogen storage. To realize the CHP system, a tube
-wall type reactor (TWR) has been proposed to transform thermal energy
into chemical energy efficiently. The catalyst volume in the TWR was
six times smaller and the pressure drop was 100 times smaller than tho
se of a classical fixed bed reactor (FBR). For reactor performances ov
er 42 kW the TWR also became smaller than the FBR. It will be possible
to design a high performance TWR by improving the reactivity. The cat
alyst layers have been formed on the surfaces of fin-tube and fin-plat
e type heat exchangers.