Modelagem e simulação da reação de decomposição catalítica do metano em reator de leito fluidizado

Abstract

Catalytic decomposition of methane is a promising route for producing both hydrogen and nanometric carbon, being a more eco-friendly rout to replace both steam reforming and furnace that produce industrially hydrogen and carbon black respectively. However, the knowledge about the decomposition is still in its infancy for large-scale applications in a competitive view, one of the ways to improve the system is change the fixed bed reactor for a fluidized bed to minimize problems of diffusion and homogenizaion, very expressive in the fixed bed system. Thus the presente work modeled the fluidized bed reaction in the software EMSO to improve the understanding of the subject and enable studies without the need to perform too many experiments.