Hydrogen gas production from glycerol via steam reforming using nickel loaded zeolite catalyst

Azaman, Fazureen and Juahir, Hafizan and Mohamed, Mahadhir and Azid, Azman and Yunus, Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Rahman, Anis Farhana and Wan Ranizang, Wan Nur Anis Amira and Md Sanin, Fara Aiza and Amran, Mohammad Azizi and Zainal Abidin, Mohd Zaid Arqam and Hairoma, Norsyuhada and Sulaiman, Nur Hishaam and Zainal Abidin, Ismail (2015) Hydrogen gas production from glycerol via steam reforming using nickel loaded zeolite catalyst. Malaysian Journal of Analytical Sciences (MJAS), 19 (5). pp. 1043-1055. ISSN 1394-2506

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Abstract

Glycerol is the main by-product of biodiesel production that produces from transesterification process. In this research, focused was on hydrogen production via glycerol steam reforming using nickel loaded HZSM-5 catalyst. The catalysts were prepared by using different loading amount of nickel (0.5, 1.0, 5.0, 10.0 and 15 wt %) on HZSM-5 catalyst through the wet impregnation method at temperature 500 ºC and atmospheric pressure. The catalyst was characterized by using XRD, FTIR and SEM. Then, only 15 wt % Ni loading has been chosen based on the parameter which is different range of catalyst weight (0.3-0.5g) at different range of glycerol flow rate (0.2-0.4mL/min) at temperature 600 ºC and atmospheric pressure. The products were analyzed by using gas-chromatography with thermal conductivity detector (GC-TCD) where it is used to identify the yield of hydrogen. The data of the experiment were analyzed by using Response Surface Methodology (RSM) in order to study the relationship of catalyst weight and glycerol flow rate. The results showed that the optimum condition to produce a maximum hydrogen yield with 15wt% Ni/HZSM-5 catalyst was 78.10004% at glycerol flow rate of 0.356484 mL/min and catalyst weight of 0.429267 g.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	5410/45424
Uncontrolled Keywords:	glycerol, transesterification, biodiesel, HZSM-5, hydrogen
Subjects:	Q Science > QD Chemistry
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Science
Depositing User:	Professor Dr. Kamaruzzaman Yunus
Date Deposited:	30 Oct 2015 09:10
Last Modified:	09 Aug 2017 15:14
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/45424

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