Preliminary results of the integrated hydrolysis reactor in the Cu-Cl hydrogen production cycle

This paper presents preliminary results of an integrated hydrolysis reactor at the Clean Energy Research Laboratory (CERL), University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Initial tests have demonstrated a successful reactor design allowing for effective recovery of liquid products. Using our best available performance metrics, the conversion rate of reagents to products ranged from 7% to 10%. Initial experimental runs demonstrated that the reactor was successfully operational with combined H2O and reagent injection in a configuration suitable for integration with the electrolysis step of the Copper-Chlorine loop. In this paper, we discuss the updated hydrolysis reactor design and present data from a number of recent experiments in which our research team recovered solids and chemical products not previously collected in prior studies. Comparisons were made with earlier XRD data taken at the Argonne National Laboratory. The comparisons showed promising results in the chemical composition of the solids produced. We conclude this paper with a discussion of future experiments to increase the conversion rate of reaction based on the observed trends. (C) 2018 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.