Partial oxidation of simulated hot coke oven gas to syngas over Ru-Ni/Mg(Al)O catalyst in a ceramic membrane reactor

Hydrogen amplification from simulated hot coke oven gas(HCOG) was investigated in a BaCo 0.7 Fe 0.2 Nb 0.1 O 3 δ(BCFNO) membrane reactor combined with a Ru-Ni/Mg(Al) O catalyst by the partial oxidation of hydrocarbon compounds under atmospheric pressure. Under optimized reaction conditions,the dense oxygen permeable membrane had an oxygen permeation flux around 13.3 ml/(cm 2 min) . By reforming of the toluene and methane,the amount of H 2 in the reaction effluent gas was about 2 times more than that of original H2 in simulated HCOG. The Ru-Ni/Mg(Al) O catalyst used in the membrane reactor possessed good catalytic activity and resistance to coking. After the activity test,a small amount of whisker carbon was observed on the used catalyst,and most of them could be removed in the hydrogen-rich atmosphere,implying that the carbon deposition formed on the catalyst might be a reversible process.