Abstract
Palladium membrane purification technology is a key unit operation to produce high purity hydrogen from a feedstock of hydrocarbon fuel. Palladium membrane technology has been investigated for many years, but designing affordable, leak free, and high flux membranes remains a challenge. Even more challenging are portable reforming applications where the membrane must integrate into fuel processing systems typically operating at much lower pressures than stationary industrial systems, in order to meet strict size, weight and rapid start-up requirements.In this work, a new supported palladium membrane composite structure is developed to meet the above challenges. Using microfabrication techniques, an ultra-thin palladium film supported on a microstructured nickel honeycomb is fabricated and characterized. The composite membrane is entirely metallic, highly selective and demonstrates flux rates of 0.47 mol of hydrogen per second per square meter of membrane area (140 standard cubic feet per hour per square) at 350 °C, using under 1 atm hydrogen partial pressure gradient driving force.
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