I presented a paper in an international conference recently. Following are the details of the paper and abstract:
Zaki Yamani Zakaria, Nor Aishah Saidina Amin, Juha Linnekoski, Thermodynamic Analysis of Glycerol to Ethylene, Presented in International Graduate Conference on Engineering, Science and Humanity (IGCESH 2013), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor. 16-17 April 2013. (PDF)
Thermodynamic Analysis of Glycerol to Ethylene
Abstract—Thermodynamic equilibrium analysis of glycerol steam reforming to ethylene has been investigated based on the total Gibbs free energy minimization method. Equilibrium product compositions for glycerol steam reforming were determined for temperatures ranging from 573–1273 K and GWR (glycerol/water ratio) 1:12 to 2:1 at 1 bar pressure. The objectives of this study are to identify the thermodynamic range of the process operation and study the variation of product distribution. It was found that the formation of ethylene was difficult to accomplish and the amount of ethylene produced is very small. Other means to encourage the formation of more ethylene is required.
Keywords: glycerol to ethylene, glycerol steam reforming, thermodynamic modeling, glycerol conversion, biomass conversion
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