Generating Hydrogen Gas from Methane with Carbon Captured as Pure Spheroidal Nanomaterials

Andrew Cornejo; Weike Zhang; Lizhen Gao; Rahi Varsani; Martin Saunders; K Iyer; Colin Raston; Hui Chua

doi:10.1002/chem.201100532

Generating Hydrogen Gas from Methane with Carbon Captured as Pure Spheroidal Nanomaterials

Andrew Cornejo, Weike Zhang, Lizhen Gao, Rahi Varsani, Martin Saunders, K Iyer, Colin Raston, Hui Chua

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Energy production by using hydrogen gas as a feedstock is considered to be one of the keys to creating clean energy, with the proviso that the gas is generated in a sustainable way with no emissions. A simple, self-sustaining process generating hydrogen gas from methane using inexpensive stainless steel wire-mesh catalysts at elevated temperatures (800 °C) is reported. A theoretical analysis of the production of electricity by this process revealed peak chain energy efficiencies up to 21 % (emission free) when using a percentage of the produced hydrogen (approximately 40 % of purified yield) as the heat source. In addition, a practical method has been developed to purify the carbon byproduct, affording essentially pure highly graphitic spheroidal carbon for advanced materials applications.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	9188-9192
Number of pages	5
Journal	Chemistry-A European Journal
Volume	17
Issue number	33
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201100532
Publication status	Published - 8 Aug 2011

Keywords

carbon
graphene
hydrogen production
methane cracking
sustainable chemistry

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