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The National Conference with international participation on New Cryogenic and Isotope Technologies for Energy and Environment - EnergEn 2018 is organized by the National Research-Development Institute for Cryogenic and Isotopic Technologies - ICSI Rm. Valcea with the scientific participation of the University of Pitesti and the University of Craiova and will be held at Baile Govora, in 2018.
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Development OF the MEMBRANE Permeator for

hydrogen production to ICIT - Rm. Valcea

 

 

Ioan Iordache1*, Mircea Raceanu1, Marian Curuia1, Jong Soo Cho2

 

1National Research and Development Institute for Cryogenics and Isotopic Technologies - ICIT Rm. Valcea, code 240050 - Rm. Valcea, Uzinei 4, CP7 Riureni, Valcea, Romania,

phone:0040 250  736979, fax:0040 250 732746

 

 

ABSTRACT

 

The hydrogen economy has enormous societal and technical appeal as a potential solution to the fundamental energy concerns of abundant supply and minimal environmental impact. Generation of pure hydrogen represents a critical technology component for power generation by PEM fuel cells in a variety of mobile and stationary power applications. Hydrogen is conventionally produced by steam reforming of hydrocarbon fuels followed by a water gas shift reaction and hydrogen separation and purification. One of the newest fields of research and technical applications is to combine the reformer reactor and the hydrogen purification steps into a single membrane reactor. In order to fit this requirement a group of researchers from ICIT Rm. Valcea start to develop a membrane permeator as a first step for a membrane reactor development.

 

KEYWORDS: permeator, PD membrane, hydrogen production, zirconia.

*Corresponding author: e-mail: iordache.ioan@.icsi.ro

2Catholic University of Korea, Wonmi-Gu, Yeokgok 2-Dong, San 43-1, Seoul, Korea