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Recent Advances in Steam Reforming of Glycerol for Syngas Production

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Syngas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, has recently emerged as an important intermediate feedstock in petrochemical industry and an efficient and eco-friendly energy carrier to substitute petroleum-based fuels. Although methane is conventionally employed as a main feedstock for syngas production via industrial methane steam reforming process, a rising interest about the implementation of glycerol for generating syngas is widely reported in literature due to its great abundance, low cost, and hydrogen-rich content. This chapter summarizes the recent progress in catalytic steam reforming of glycerol for syngas yield in terms of catalytic design using various supports and promoters and the manipulation of operating variables. The mechanistic pathways and their fundamentally derived kinetic models for expressing glycerol reaction rate and estimating associated kinetic parameters are also comprehensively reviewed throughout this chapter.

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  1. School of Chemical and Energy Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia

    Tan Ji Siang & Aishah Abdul Jalil

  2. Faculty of Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia

    Nurul Asmawati Roslan, Herma Dina Setiabudi, Sumaiya Zainal Abidin & Chin Kui Cheng

  3. Center of Excellence for Green Energy and Environmental Nanomaterials, Nguyễn Tất Thành University, Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam

    Trinh Duy Nguyen & Dai-Viet N. Vo

  4. Centre of Hydrogen Energy, Institute of Future Energy, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia

    Aishah Abdul Jalil

  5. School of Chemical Engineering, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội, Vietnam

    Minh Thang Le

  6. Directorate of Research, Central Agricultural University, Imphal, Manipur, India

    Prakash K. Sarangi

  7. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

    Sonil Nanda

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Siang, T.J. et al. (2020). Recent Advances in Steam Reforming of Glycerol for Syngas Production. In: Nanda, S., N. Vo, DV., Sarangi, P. (eds) Biorefinery of Alternative Resources: Targeting Green Fuels and Platform Chemicals. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1804-1_17

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