exploitation of the environmental benefits of using hydrogen as an energy carrier. The use of glycerol in particular is motivated …Aqueous-phase reforming of oxygenated hydrocarbons for hydrogen production presents several advantages as feed … performance of Pt-based catalysts supported on different oxides (Al2O3, ZrO2, MgO and CeO2) is studied on glycerol reforming. All …

glycerol. The catalysts were characterized by chemical composition, textural analysis, crystalline structure and reducibility …. The reaction was carried out in a batch reactor with solution of 10 wt.% glycerol, at 250 and 270 °C. A maximum glycerol …

A thermodynamic analysis of the oxidative steam reforming of glycerol (OSRG) for hydrogen production has been carried … hydrogen from glycerol. The highest hydrogen selectivity is obtained at 600–700 °C. To predict the potential technical … obstacles in the glycerol reforming process, the OSRG process was compared with oxidative steam reforming of ethanol (OSRE) in …

Converting glycerol, a by-product from biodiesel production into useful products and energy could contribute to a … positive life cycle for the biodiesel process. One kg of glycerol is produced for every 10 kg of biodiesel and has the … Gasification (CSCWG) processing of crude glycerol solutions is one such viable option. Above its critical point [>221 barg, >374 °C …

In this work, various assessment tools were comprehensively applied to investigate hydrogen production via glycerol … autothermal reforming. These tools are used to study the chemical reactions, design and simulate the entire hydrogen production …

The study focuses on hydrogen production from steam reforming of glycerol over nickel based catalyst promoted by … evaluated in terms of hydrogen yield, selectivity and glycerol conversion at 700°C in a tubular fixed bed reactor. The effect of … glycerol concentration in feed, space time (W/FAO), temperature and time on stream (TOS) was analyzed for the catalyst Ni–ZrO2 …

production process involves a phase of transesterification that yields glycerol as a by-product. The use of this glycerol is … have addressed identification of possible uses for unrefined glycerol. Given the diversity of uses, an overview is … necessary. The purpose of this work is to present alternatives currently being considered for the use of unrefined glycerol as a …

Enterobacter aerogenes have a known ability to convert glycerol (GL) in a fermentative process to yield hydrogen and … determined using pure glycerol (commercial grade glycerol), were successfully applied to the fermentation of crude glycerol from … biodiesel production. The results indicated promising yields of 0.79 and 0.84 mol/mol of glycerol for bioethanol and biohydrogen …

recent reports on increase in the glycerol generation during the biodiesel production has created a need to convert large … quantities of glycerol into value-added products. In the present investigation, twenty anaerobic bacteria were screened for … that the strain was able to utilize glycerol as a sole carbon source to produce 1.4 g/L of butanol in 96 h. Optimization of …

. Ethanol fermentation using glycerol as carbon source was carried out by local isolate, ethanologenic bacterium Escherichia … coli SS1 in a close system. Factors affecting bioethanol production from pure glycerol were optimized via response surface … fermentation in a 2 L bioreactor was performed at the glycerol concentration of 20 g/L, 35 g/L and 45 g/L, respectively. The …