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Study on efficiency of DCP for nuclear hydrogen production

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Study on efficiency of DCP for nuclear hydrogen production

LIN Qian
CAO Xue-Wu
JIANG Rui-Peng
ZHANG Xu
Nuclear Science and TechniquesVol.16, No.6pp.371-375Published in print 01 Dec 2005
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With many advantages, hydrogen is considered as the fuel of the future. But there is no natural resource of hydrogen and it must be produced by other kinds of energy. As for the primary energy, nuclear energy is a promising alternative. Using heat from nuclear reactor to produce hydrogen is receiving more and more concerns in recent years. This paper mainly emphasizes the study of the direct contact pyrolysis (DCP) of methane using heat from nuclear reactor. A facility was designed to investigate the efficiency of DCP process in certain conditions. The experimental results show that this process produces only hydrogen and carbon. The conversion efficiency increases with temperature and residence time, but decreases as flow rate increases. The highest efficiency of DCP obtained in this experiment is about 22%.

Hydrogen productionNuclear reactorMethane pyrolysis
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