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Analysis of thermal and composition distributions inside a methane thermal decomposition reactor using experiments and simulation

2025· article· en· W4414396821 on OpenAlex
Ali Mohammadtabar, Ambuj Punia, Vaishnavi Kale, Ehsan Abbasi-Atibeh, Arash Naseri, David Aguerrebere, Natalia Semagina, Jason S. Olfert, Marc Secanell

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Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Hydrogen Energy · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicIron and Steelmaking Processes
Canadian institutionsUniversity of CalgaryUniversity of Alberta
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaMitacsCanada First Research Excellence FundUniversity of Alberta
KeywordsMethanePlug flow reactor modelVolumetric flow rateComputational fluid dynamicsPlug flowThermalFlow (mathematics)Continuous stirred-tank reactorGas composition

Abstract

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A methane thermal decomposition reactor and its compressible, multi-component, non-isothermal, computational fluid dynamics model were developed. Experimental methane conversion rates are determined at temperatures below 1300 K, for pure methane at varying flow rates, an industrially relevant range rarely studied. The experimental data is used with a least-square parameter estimation framework to determine the reaction rate and activation energy. Only a reaction model with forward and backward rate constants is shown to achieve excellent agreement between numerical and experimental results at all tested conditions. The model is used to study temperature, density, and composition inside the reactor and to assess the validity of commonly used plug flow and negligible gravitational effect assumptions. Results show that: (a) in a 28 mm diameter reactor, radial effects can cause up to 12% errors at high flow rates and 1295 K; and, (b) a minimum flow rate of 0.05 SLPM is needed to prevent gravitational effects.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.120
Threshold uncertainty score0.287

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

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Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.306
Teacher spread0.292 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it