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Non-thermal plasma catalytic reactor for hydrogen production by direct decomposition of H2S

CH. SUBRAHMANYAM1, A. RENKEN1, L. KIWI-MINSKER1,*

Affiliation

  1. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (GGRC-EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Abstract

Hydrogen production by non-thermal plasma (NTP) assisted direct decomposition of hydrogen sulfide was carried out in a novel dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) reactor with the inner electrode made of sintered metal fibers (SMF) also functioning as catalyst. The discharge gap between the electrodes and the gas residence time in the discharge was optimized to achieve hydrogen production in an economically feasible manner. Typical results indicate that hydrogen production can be achieved at 160 kJ/mol H2 (2 kWh/m3 or 1.6 eV/molecule), which is less than the energy demand during the steam methane reforming (4.3 kWh/m3 or 3.6 eV/ H2), the conventional method of hydrogen production..

Keywords

Hydrogen production, Non-thermal plasma, Sintered metal fibers, Hydrogen sulfide decomposition, Sulfur.

Submitted at: March 1, 2008
Accepted at: July 10, 2008

Citation

CH. SUBRAHMANYAM, A. RENKEN, L. KIWI-MINSKER, Non-thermal plasma catalytic reactor for hydrogen production by direct decomposition of H2S, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 10, Iss. 8, pp. 1991-1993 (2008)