Dynamic Simulation on the Thermochemical Hydrogen Production Process

Abstract

Thermochemical hydrogen production process named UT-3 cycle consists of four gas-solid reactions. In this process, these four reactions are conducted cyclically under the condition of closed loop of gas flow. A dynamic simulation model of the UT-3 process was built and the simulation study using this model was conducted to find out the optimum balanced operating condition of the process. The effects of reaction rate and reaction temperature on the progress of each reaction and cyclic reaction were investigated