Analysis of Hydrogen Reforming Process With Water Gas Shift Reaction

Hydrogen is receiving considerable interest as clean and high efficiency energy. During the past decades, hydrogen was mainly produced by petroleum resources(i.e. Naphtha, CH(4)). However, because of the recent increasing of the oil cost and the lack of the resources, alternative technologies are required for mass production hydrogen. In the present work, we consider iron making exhausted gases as hydrogen resources because they contain much carbon monoxide and hydrogen. To increase hydrogen content in the exhausted gases, hydrogen reforming process such as a water gas shift reactor is needed. In the present work, considerations are focused on the performance analysis of the water gas shift reaction with the iron making exhausted gases in various operation conditions. And, we discuss the reactor design concepts to achieve better reactor performance.