modeling of glycerol steam reforming for hydrogen production over bimetallic co-ni/al2o3

Glycerol steam reforming has been performed in a packed-bed micro reactor containing bimetallic co-ni/al2o3 for reaction temperatures between 798 and 700 k at atmospheric pressure glycerol consumption rate data analysis implicates fractional orders with respect to both glycerol (025) and steam (036) with an activation energy of 633 kj mol-1 similar treatment for h2, co2, co, and ch4 production rate evinced positive fractional orders for both reactants with the exception of co which has mild inhibition by steam (-0065) the steam reforming of the main biodiesel by-product, glycerol, has been catching up the interest of the scientific community in the recent years hydrogen itself is seen as a very attractive clean fuel for the future therefore, the glycerol steam reforming(gsr) process would have a tremendous global environmental impact in the recent years, intensive research regarding gsr thermodynamics, catalysts, reaction mechanisms and kinetics has been done, aiming for describing the process