Reactive and selective redox system of Ni(II)-ferrite for a two-step CO and H2 production cycle from carbon and water

T. Kodama, Y. Watanabe, S. Miura, Masayuki Sato () and Y. Kitayama

Energy, 1996, vol. 21, issue 12, 1147-1156

Abstract: A number of redox systems composed of carbon and bivalent metal-ferrites, MFe2O4(M = bivalent metal ions), were studied to find the most reactive and selective working materials for a thermochemical water-decomposition cycle combined with CO production from a carbon compound. Magnetite and Mg(II)-, Mn(II)-, Co(II)-, Ni(II)-, and Zn(II)-ferrites mixed with carbon powder have been screened for reactivity and selectivity in the CO-production step (first step) and subsequent water-decomposition step (second step). The Ni(II)-ferrite showed the most reactivity and selectivity for CO formation from carbon in the first step at temperatures above 700°C. The Ni(II)-ferrite could be completely reduced with carbon to the metallic phase of the Ni Fe alloy and Ni in the first step although only a small portion of magnetite was reduced to wustite under similar conditions. The ferrites reduced in the first step were oxidized with water vapor to generate H2 in the second step. The highest conversion of H2O to H2 was obtained using the Ni(II)-ferrite. The total amount of evolved H2 using Ni(II)-ferrite was 10 times larger than for the magnetite at 500°C. The processes could be repeated using the phase transition between Ni(II)-ferrite and Ni Fe alloy in the temperature range 700–800°C, with the highly efficient net reaction H2O + C → H2 + CO.

Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(96)00058-8

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