Rapid production of high-purity hydrogen fuel through microwave-promoted deep catalytic dehydrogenation of liquid alkanes with abundant metals

Jie, Xiangyu, Gonzalez-Cortes, Sergio, Xiao, Tiancun, Wang, Jiale, Yao, Benzhen, Slocombe, Daniel R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3590-6075, Al-Megren, Hamid A., Dilworth, Jonathan R., Thomas, John M. and Edwards, Peter P. 2017. Rapid production of high-purity hydrogen fuel through microwave-promoted deep catalytic dehydrogenation of liquid alkanes with abundant metals. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 56 (34) , pp. 10170-10173. 10.1002/anie.201703489

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Abstract

Hydrogen as an energy carrier promises a sustainable energy revolution. However, one of the greatest challenges for any future hydrogen economy is the necessity for large scale hydrogen production not involving concurrent CO2 production. The high intrinsic hydrogen content of liquid-range alkane hydrocarbons (including diesel) offers a potential route to CO2-free hydrogen production through their catalytic deep dehydrogenation. We report here a means of rapidly liberating high-purity hydrogen by microwave-promoted catalytic dehydrogenation of liquid alkanes using Fe and Ni particles supported on silicon carbide. A H2 production selectivity from all evolved gases of some 98 %, is achieved with less than a fraction of a percent of adventitious CO and CO2. The major co-product is solid, elemental carbon.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Engineering
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	1433-7851
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	12 July 2017
Date of Acceptance:	19 April 2017
Last Modified:	03 Dec 2024 02:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/102360

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