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University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Analysis of hydrodynamic phenomena in a fluidized bed for thermochemical hydrogen production
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThis thesis examines transport phenomena of cupric chloride (CuCI2) hydrolysis within a fluidized bed. Conversions of CuCi2 and steam as a fluidizing gas are numerically investigated using a new non-catalytic gas-solid reaction model, proposed in the literature but here updated for the purposes of the present study. The results are illustrated considering two cases of kinetics for the consumption of particles: Volumetric Model and Shrinking Core Model. Consistent results in terms of the conversion of reactants versus superficial velocity, bed inventory and bed temperature are obtained by developing new solution algorithms abased on each of the above kinetic models.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Applied Science (MASc)
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Mechanical Engineering
- Grantor
- University of Ontario Institute of Technology
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2008
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Haseli, Yousef
- Advisors dc:contributor.advisor
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- Dincer, Ibrahim
- Naterer, Greg F.
Subjects
dc:subject × 4Rights
- Language dc:language.iso
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- https://hdl.handle.net/10155/7
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:ontariotechu.scholaris.ca:10155/7