1 Plasma for Ethanol Reforming
1.1 Hydrogen and Plasma
1.2 Reforming Technologies of Liquid Fuel
1.2.1 CO2 Reforming
1.2.2 Partial Oxidation Reforming
1.2.3 Steam Reforming
1.2.4 Autothermal Reforming
1.2.5 Comparison Among Different Reforming Processes
1.3 Hydrogen Production by Ethanol Reforming
1.3.1 Catalytic Ethanol Reforming for Hydrogen Production
1.3.2 Plasma Ethanol Reforming for Hydrogen Production
References
Non-thermal Are Plasma for Ethanol Reforming
and Hydrogen Production
2.1 Non-thermal Plasma
2.2 Non-thermal Arc Plasma Reforming of Ethanol to Produce
Hydrogen
2.3 Factors Affecting on Plasma Reforming of Ethanol
2.3.1 Effects of the Components of the Materials
2.3.2 Effects of the Carrier Gas
2.3.3 Effects of the Input Power
2.3.4 Effects of Other Factors
2.4 Comparison of the Non-thermal Plasma Reforming of Ethanol
2.5 Developmental Trends of the Non-thermal Arc Plasma
Reforming of Ethanol
References
3 Hydrogen from Ethanol by a Plasma Reforming System
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Materials and Methods
3.2.1 Experimental Setup
3.2.2 Calculation
3.3 Results and Discussion
3.3.1 Effect of the O/C Ratio
3.3.2 Effect of the S/C Ratio
3.3.3 Effect of the Input Power
3.3.4 Effect of the Ethanol Flow Rate
3.4 Conclusion
References
4 Hydrogen from Ethanol by a Miniaturized Plasma
Reforming System
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Experimental Setup
4.3 Results and Discussion
4.3.1 Voltage-Current Characteristic
4.3.2 Effect of the O/C Ratio
4.3.3 Effect of the S/C Ratio
4.3.4 Effect of the Ethanol Flow Rate
4.4 Conclusion
References
Plasma-Catalytic Reforming for Hydrogen Generation
from Ethanol
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Experimental Setup
5.2.1 Plasma-Catalytic Setup
5.2.2 Catalysts Characterization
5.3 Results and Discussion
5.3.1 Effect of the O/C Ratio
5.3.2 Effect of the S/C Ratio
5.4 Conclusion
References
6 Mechanism for the Plasma Reforming of Ethanol
6.1 Mechanism Analysis of the Single Plasma Reforming of Ethanol
6.1.1 Electron-Molecule Collision
6.1.2 Free Radical Reaction
6.1.3 The Generation and Conversion of the Main Products
6.1.4 Suppression and Removal of Carbon Deposition
in the Reforming Process
6.1.5 Removal of NOr in the Process of Reforming
6.2 Mechanism Analysis of the Plasma-Catalytic Reforming
of Ethanol
6.2.1 Related Mechanism of the Catalytic Reforming
of Ethanol
6.2.2 Effects of Plasma on the Surface Characteristics
of the Catalyst
6.2.3 The Surface Reaction of the Electronic/Radical-Catalyst
6.3 Comparison Between Plasma Reforming and
Plasma-Catalyst Reforming
6.4 Summary
References
7 Outlook
Index

严建华、杜长明著的《等离子体重整乙醇制氢技术(英文版)(精)》对采用等离子体或等离子体—催化工艺重整诸如乙醇等可再生原料制氢的研究进行了介绍。利用新型等离子体工艺及等离子体催化联合工艺可减少氮氧化物排放，且能量循环中减少“碳迹”，因而在再生资源制氢领域上表现出了强大的潜力。实验结果表明将等离子体与催化工艺相结合可产生协同作用。由于具有良好的重整能力及产氢效率，该技术将可望掀起新一轮重整工艺风暴，并吸引众多研究者进行绿色能源制取工艺的研究。本书介绍了输入功率、反应器结构、反应温度、载气类型及原料组分等影响因素对重整效率的影响。为进一步了解和评估重整效率，本书还对乙醇重整的多种模型进行介绍，比较了不同等离子体反应器重整乙醇的效果，并从各等离子体类型的特征对其进行具体分析。本书在最后展望了未来该领域可能的研究发展方向，并预测了新一代燃料制氢工艺的发展及趋势。