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[Paper Title, Abstract] Hydrogen Production by Steam Reforming of Product Gas Produced by Biomass Gasification Show AbstractHide Abstract Steam reforming of product gas produced by biomass gasification is regarded as a major route for the industrial production of hydrogen and synthesis gas, which can subsequently be converted to numerous valuable basic chemicals. This paper reports investigations of steam methane reforming process by means of mathematical modeling. A packed bed reactor filled with nickel catalyst is simulated numerically by state of the art Finite Element Method software (COMSOL Multiphysics). The process is highly endothermic and electrical heating is used to keep the outer wall of the reactor at constant temperature in order to provide heat into the reactor, therefore, reactor tube is exposed to significant axial and radial temperature gradients .The steady state pseudo-heterogeneous model represents the heat and mass transfer in the reactor tube. The obtained results are satisfactory when compared to the literature, giving similar profiles but slightly different temperature values and concentration profiles. [Schedule] TBD [Category :: Sub-Category] 
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