US-Germany Cooperative Research: Synthesis of Hydrogen from Diesel Fuels

该奖项支持兰尼·施密特和明尼苏达双城大学的学生与德国卡尔鲁厄大学化学工程研究所的Olaf Deutschmann合作。这笔资金建立了一个合作项目，对柴油及其组分的部分氧化进行建模，以生产用于燃料电池和相关应用的氢气和轻烃。该计划将建立在主要研究人员之间过去在开发甲烷部分氧化详细模型方面的合作基础上。这些将包括机理开发、实验结果的模拟和对过程行为的预测。所建立的模型将提供有关烃类反应机理的基本信息。目前还没有碳氢化合物氧化反应的详细模型，无论是均相反应还是表面反应，都已经开发出足够详细的模型来模拟燃料重整为氢。这些模型的开发也将对解释实验结果和开发动力学模型的理论基础产生重大的基础性影响。此外，这些模型在开发燃料电池燃料重整技术方面将至关重要，因为它们需要处理复杂的烷烃混合物。这些模型在设计这些重要的能源生产技术时是必不可少的。

0339819SchmidtThis award supports Lanny Schmidt and students from the University of Minnesota-Twin Citiesin a collaboration with Olaf Deutschmann of the Institute of Chemical Engineering at the University of Karlruhe, Germany. The funding establishes a collaborative program for modeling the partial oxidation of diesel fuel and its components to produce hydrogen and light hydrocarbons for fuel cells and related applications. This program will build on past collaborations between the principal investigators on developing detailed models partial oxidation of methane. These will include mechanism development, simulations of experimental results, and predictions of process behavior. The models constructed will provide fundamental information on mechanisms of hydrocarbon reactions. There are currently no detailed models of hydrocarbon oxidation reactions, either homogeneous or on surfaces, which have been developed in sufficient detail for simulating fuel reforming to hydrogen. Development of these models will also have significant fundamental impact on interpreting experimental results and on theoretical bases for kinetic model development. Furthermore, the models will be crucial in developing technologies for fuel reforming for fuel cells because they require processing of complex mixtures of alkanes. Such models are essential in designing these important energy-producing technologies.