Methanation - Pilot Plant ADAM I (NFE Proiect) and other Methanation Pilot Plants

According to tOday' s energy forecasts. the energy market requires a considerable percentage of low temperature energy, and NUCLEAR LONG-DISTANCE ENERGY represents a promising alternative source for this energy. In connection with nuclear coal gasification, the NUCLEAR LONGDISTANCE ENERGY SYSTEM provides an open gas circuit system for both the transportation of chemical energy and the supply of raw gas for various purposes. In this context. it appears to be reasonable to consider a cyclic system with a high temperature nuclear reactor as heat source for the methane steam reforming process at one side and the methanation process with heat utilization at the other. [...

Development and screening of selective catalysts for the synthesis of clean liquid fuels

This article is a compilation of the research carried out under EEC contract EN3V-0400-D at the Institut für Energieverfahrenstechnik in Jülich and at the Faculty of Chemical Technology and Materials Science, Delft, concerning the development and screening of copper/cobalt-based catalysts for the synthesis of alcohol mixtures from syngas. Analogous work, based on copper/zinc oxide/alumina catalysts, has been performed at the Faculty of Chemical Technology in Twente University at Enschede. This work is described in a companion paper. Comparative tests of several catalysts in a pressure micropulse reactor and in a plug flow tubular reactor, carried out at the Institut für Technische Chemie, TU Braunschweig, are presented in a second companion paper. \ud In the discussion section of the present article the results obtained by the joint groups are compared with the initial objectives of the programme

Dokumentation der Energie und Massenstrombilanzierung für ADAM I im Online-Betrieb

The methanation process is of considerable importance to both the production of "Substitute Natural Gas" on the basis of coal gasification and the "Nuclear Long - Distance Energy System". The report describes how the data resulting from experiments with pilot plant ADAM I were recorded and integrated into a computer program. The experimental results are of use to the optimization of the methanation process within the "Nuclear Long-Distance Energy System.