The authors have presented a mathematical model of heat- and mass-transfer processes in a circulating-type reactor implementing the hydrolysis of sodium borohydride in the hydrogen generator. The model was used to analyze two methods of control of the generator output and can be applied to scaling and optimization of structures of generators of this type.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 91, No. 6, pp. 1700–1705, November–December, 2018.
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Shabunya, S.I., Kalinin, V.I., Minkina, V.G. et al. Modeling of the Process of Hydrolysis of Sodium Borohydride in a Circulating Reactor. J Eng Phys Thermophy 91, 1617–1622 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-018-1900-2
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