Catalysts for Reforming of Biogas
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Catalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 360
Special Issue Editors
Interests: heterogeneous catalysis; steam reforming; WGS; hydrogen production; syngas production; reaction mechanism; biofuels; environmental catalysis; in situ characterization techniques
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Interests: steam reforming; dry reforming; water gas shift; CO2 hydrogenation; syngas and hydrogen production; hydrotalcite; heterogeneous catalysts
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biogas utilization has received increasing attention in the last few decades as a sustainable alternative to natural gas for a wide range of applications. Catalysis plays a crucial role in biogas valorization through reforming reactions such as dry reforming, steam reforming, oxy-reforming and combined processes to obtain synthesis gas for further downstream applications, such as methanol synthesis, the Fischer–Tropsch process, or pure H2 production. Biogas composition, production, and purification and its environmental impact represent another issue to be considered for a worldwide application.
Catalysts’ ability to activate CO2 and/or CH4 in harsh reaction conditions depends on many factors, such as active sites’ chemical nature and dispersion, support basicity, thermal resistance, and support–metal interactions. In addition, the resistance of the catalyst toward carbon formation is essential to suppress active site deactivation.
Submissions to this Special Issue on “Catalysts for Reforming of Biogas” are welcome in the form of original research papers or short reviews on the state of the art in the following topics: Reforming processes for the biogas valorization, CO2 methanation, biogas reforming reaction mechanism, kinetic and modeling, catalyst deactivation, and structured catalysts to enhance mass and heat transfer.
Dr. Carlo Lucarelli
Dr. Nicola Schiaroli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Biogas valorization
- Combined reforming
- Syngas production
- Biogas purification
- Life cycle assessment and reforming reactor design
- Catalyst deactivation
- Structured catalyst
- Reforming reaction mechanism
- Reforming kinetics and modelling
- Energy balance and heat recover
