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Energy Analysis of Methanol Synthesis via Reverse Water-Gas Shift Reactor

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The growing energy demand and arousing environmental concerns are some of the major issues faced all over the globe. Excessive CO2 release has always been devastating the human ecosystem but in recent years historically high emission of CO2 from the energy sector has drawn much attention towards clean and green fuel. In this regard, methanol synthesis is a pivot to the research community as a clean fuel. This book chapter also strives to highlight the methanol synthesis process by performing thermodynamic analysis. A deliberate energy analysis of methanol synthesis by reverse water-gas shift reactor (rWGSR) is performed. The thermochemical processing is utilized to convert methane and carbon dioxide to methanol. On the basis of thermodynamic modelling, concentrations of different constituents over the cycle are determined. It is verified that the optimum state of methanol synthesis is accompanied by the lowest level of CO. Moreover, the concentration of carbon dioxide doesn’t affect the methanol synthesis significantly.

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Abbreviations

m:

Mass flow rate

P:

Pressure

T:

Temperature

h:

Specific Enthalpy

s:

Specific Entropy

v:

Specific Volume

ΔH:

Enthalpy of reaction

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    Asad A. Zaidi, Muhammad Nihal Naseer & Tahir Abdul Hussain Ratlamwala

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Zaidi, A.A., Naseer, M.N., Ratlamwala, T.A.H. (2021). Energy Analysis of Methanol Synthesis via Reverse Water-Gas Shift Reactor. In: Agarwal, A.K., Valera, H., Pexa, M., Čedík, J. (eds) Methanol. Energy, Environment, and Sustainability. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1224-4_4

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