Development of methanol steam reformer for chemical recuperation

The purpose of the present work is to establish the design method of methan ol steam. reformer for application to chemical recuperation in a gas turbin e system. The reaction rate of the methanol steam-reforming was measured wi th a small amount of catalyst using the gaseous mixture of methanol, water, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide as a simulated product gas. The reaction rate equation could be expressed by power law of methanol m the catalyst-packed bed mole fraction and total pressure. The reaction and heat transfer was a nalyzed numerically using the reaction rate equation. The analytical result s of temperature distribution and conversion were compared with the experim ental results using a reforming tube, These results agreed well except for the region of high methanol conversion.