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@PHDTHESIS{Weiske:912050,
author = {Weiske, Stefan},
title = {{E}valuation von {R}eaktorkonzepten für die {CO}2-basierte
{M}ethanolsynthese aus {W}asserstoff und {K}ohlendioxid
mithilfe von {CFD}-{S}imulationen},
volume = {592},
school = {RWTH Aachen University},
type = {Dissertation},
address = {Jülich},
publisher = {Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag},
reportid = {FZJ-2022-05277},
isbn = {978-3-95806-661-8},
series = {Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich Reihe Energie $\&$
Umwelt / Energy $\&$ Environment},
pages = {x, 369},
year = {2022},
note = {Dissertation, RWTH Aachen University, 2022},
abstract = {The abatement of the anthropogenic climate change and
dependency on fossile energy carriers are two of the
greatest challenges, which mankind has to overcome in the
current century. The approach of utilization of as much as
possible renewable sources for a sustainable energy supply
holds many challenges for the established supply structures
as well. Especially the temporal and local balance of
renewable energies seems to be an important obstacle in the
terms of the energy transition. Synthetic fuels can
contribute to this balance by providing renewable energies
to the transport sector via the concept of sector coupling.
Methanol prevails to be in a key role, whether utilized as
an alternative fuel or as base chemical for the production
of advanced alternative fuels. The topic of this PhD-thesis
is to analyze different pathways for the renewable
production of methanol. The focus of this analysis is set to
the developed reactor concepts. A study of potential
reactors evaluates the different concepts from a point of
view of the synthesis process. In this study CFD-models will
be developed to perform detailed analyses with changing
boundary conditions. The CFD-models of the reactors have to
combine different aspects in the modeling process. In terms
of modeling the reaction kinetics of the CO2-based methanol
synthesis three Langmuir-Hinshelwood models are selected:
Graaf [1], Bussche and Froment [2] and by Seidel et al. [3].
The mass transport is modeled by the concept of catalyst
efficiencies. The model by Graaf [1] is selected to be used
in further studies, because it shows the best agreement with
the experimental data from an industrial reactor and and the
prediction of the chosen reference case seems to be the most
reasonable. The frame of this potential study includes
simulations of quasi-isothermal tube reactors like the
Lurgi-type reactor, the Mitsubishi-Superconverter und an
innovative membrane reactor. The quench reactor is
integrated in this study as well. Tailormade optimization
strategies are applied to the diverse reactor concepts,
which show the intrinsic advantages of the reactor concepts
to optimize the production of methanol. Furthermore, fluid
dynamic analyses are used to determine the potential of
application of fluidized bed and slurry bubble coloumn
reactors in methanol synthesis processes. In the end the
membrane reactor shows the greatest potential to overcome
the challenges of CO2-based methanol synthesis by an in-situ
capture of water},
cin = {IEK-14},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-14-20191129},
pnm = {1232 - Power-based Fuels and Chemicals (POF4-123)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-1232},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)3 / PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
urn = {urn:nbn:de:0001-2023013148},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/912050},
}