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A comparison between monolithic and wire gauze structured catalytic reactors for CH<sub>4</sub> and CO removal from biogas-fuelled engine exhaust
The application of the wire gauzes as the catalytic supports can provide a number of advantages in
biogas exhaust abatement. In this paper, a model of wire
gauze structured reactor for biogas exhaust removal is
proposed and model based calculations are performed to
compare the wire gauze catalytic reactor with the classic
monolith. The modelling bases on kinetic data experimentally obtained in a small-scale tubular reactor for cobalt
and palladium (as reference) oxide catalysts doped with
promoters (Ce, Pd). The heat and mass transfer characteristics of the wire gauze reactor are taken from the former
studies by the authors. The simulations show that for
assumed reactor parameters, a combination of the promoted cobalt oxide catalyst and the wire gauze support can
give high conversion of methane and carbon monoxide