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

0339819施密特该奖项支持Lanny Schmidt和明尼苏达大学双子城分校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，对柴油及其成分的部分氧化进行建模，以产生用于燃料电池和相关应用的氢和轻烃。该项目将建立在过去主要研究人员在开发甲烷部分氧化详细模型方面的合作基础上。这些将包括机制发展，模拟实验结果，和过程行为的预测。所建立的模型将提供碳氢化合物反应机理的基本信息。目前还没有详细的碳氢化合物氧化反应模型，无论是均匀的还是表面的，都没有足够详细的模型来模拟燃料转化为氢。这些模型的发展也将对解释实验结果和动力学模型发展的理论基础产生重大的根本性影响。此外，这些模型对于燃料电池燃料重整技术的发展至关重要，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.