Abstract for Post: Influence of Palladium Metal on the Features of the Ignition of Hydrogen-Hydrocarbon (Ch4-C6h12) -Air Mixtures at Pressures 1÷2 Atm

Author(s): Nickolai M. Rubtsov1, Victor I. Chernysh1, Georgii I. Tsvetkov1, Kirill Ya. Troshin2 and Igor O. Shamshin2

It was found that the temperature of the ignition limit over palladium surface at 1.75 atm, measured with a bottom-up approach by temperature, of the mixtures 30% methane + 70% hydrogen + air (f=0.9, T=317oC) and 30% propane + 70% hydrogen + air (f=1, 106oC) decreases after subsequent ignitions and amounts to 270oC, for the hydrogen-methane mix and to 320 C for the hydrogen-propane mix. The ignition limit returns to the initial value after processing of the reactor with oxygen or the air, i.e. a hysteresis effect occurs. The ignition limit of the mixtures 30% (C2, C4, C5, C6) + 70%H2 + air (f=0.6, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2, correspondingly) over palladium surface amounts to 19÷35 oC at 1.75 atm; the hysteresis effect is missing. It was found that the lean (f=0.6)  30% ethane + 70% hydrogen + air mix shows the lowest temperature of the ignition limit: 240C at 1 atm. The effective activation energy of the ignition of the mixes over Pd is estimated as ~ 2.4 ± 1 kcal/mole.