Evaluation of an Inconel-625 Reactor and its Wall Effects on Ethanol Reforming in Supercritical Water
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Abstract
Continuous ethanol reforming in supercritical water was investigated in an Inconel-625 reactor without catalyst addition. Experiments were carried out for different operating conditions: temperatures from 450 to 600 °C, pressures from 225 to 300 bar, ethanol concentrations from 2.5 to 10% wt, and feed flow rates from 0.88 to 2.88 g/min. Higher temperatures increased the conversion and the hydrogen production, but above 575 °C the experiments failed due to excessive tar formation, which plugged the reactor and/or the back pressure regulator. The pressure effect in the range considered here was insignificant. Ethanol dehydrogenation to acetaldehyde was the main reaction pathway, followed by acetaldehyde decomposition to CH 4 and CO. The catalytic effects of the reactor’s wall were studied by varying the reactor’s surface-to-volume ratio ( S / V ) by inserting Inconel wires. The results confirmed the significant catalytic effects of Inconel 625, especially above 525 °C, and also demonstrated that at 550 °C and for an S / V ratio of 3.1 1/mm, conversion up to 96% was achieved without carbon deposition problems. Finally, a kinetic study for the ethanol dehydrogenation was carried out. This kinetic study revealed that ethanol dehydrogenation occurs mostly through wall-catalyzed reactions and that the homogeneous reaction is negligible in the reactor system considered here. Finally, an Arrhenius expression for the rate constant of the wall-catalyzed ethanol dehydrogenation reaction is proposed.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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