TY  - JOUR
AU  - Rüde, Timo
AU  - Lu, Yulin
AU  - Anschütz, Leon
AU  - Blasius, Marco
AU  - Wolf, Moritz
AU  - Preuster, Patrick
AU  - Wasserscheid, Peter
AU  - Geißelbrecht, Michael
TI  - Performance of Continuous Hydrogen Production from Perhydro Benzyltoluene by Catalytic Distillation and Heat Integration Concepts with a Fuel Cell
JO  - Energy technology
VL  - 11
IS  - 3
SN  - 2194-4288
CY  - Weinheim [u.a.]
PB  - Wiley-VCH
M1  - FZJ-2023-00743
SP  - 2201366
PY  - 2023
AB  - The benzyltoluene-based liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) system enables the safe transport and loss-free storage of hydrogen. At least 26% of the lower heating value of the released hydrogen, however, have to be invested in form of heat to release the stored hydrogen. The low operation temperatures of catalytic distillation (CD) can facilitate waste heat integration to reduce external heat demand. In this work, we demonstrate the continuous hydrogen release from perhydro benzyltoluene via CD. The experimental results reveal that this mode of operation leads to a high hydrogen release rate and very efficient noble metal catalyst usage at exceptionally mild conditions. The hydrogen-based productivity of platinum of 0.35 gH2 gPt-1 min-1 (0.7 kWLHV_H2 gPt-1) at a dehydrogenation temperature of only 267 °C was found to be nearly four times higher than for the conventional continuous liquid phase dehydrogenation at the same temperature. Furthermore, we describe simulation results of the CD process. The feasibility of a fully heat integrated process for electricity generation from the released hydrogen via CD using waste heat from the fuel cell for the CD reboiler is demonstrated. Our simulation highlights the technical potential of coupling the H12-BT dehydrogenation by CD with high-temperature fuel cell operation.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000913991200001
DO  - DOI:10.1002/ente.202201366
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/917540
ER  -