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Hydrogen Production from NON-Thermal Plasma Ethanol and Glycerol Reforming

Trung Hoang, Xinli Zhu, Richard G. Mallinson, and Lance L. Lobban. School Of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 100 E. Boyd St, T-335, Norman, OK 73019

Production of hydrogen for fuel cell vehicles, mobile power generators, and for hydrogen enhanced internal combustion engines from biomass sources is a potential path to a green hydrogen economy component. However, traditional catalytic reformers have several problems for smaller scale applications. Hydrogen production from non-thermal plasma is an alternative approach with recently encouraging results. A steam reformer using non-thermal plasma with WGS catalyst has developed to produce hydrogen directly from bio-ethanol (water content can be up to 65% in volume). High conversion is obtained at 96.4%. CO levels have been reduced to less than 1% with insitu WGS catalyst.