Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Kimya Mühendisliği Bölümü, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2015
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Öğrenci: Cihan Ateş
Danışman: DENİZ ÜNER
Özet:The scope of this study includes the development of a methodology to determine a candidate material for two step thermochemical heat storage applications via fundamental principles of thermodynamics. The feasibility of utilizing stored thermochemical energy to produce CO from CO2 and H2 from H2O was demonstrated theoretically and experimentally. Metal oxide selection criteria were chosen as transport, kinetic and thermodynamic constraints. As a result Co3O4 was considered worthy of further investigation. Thermal decomposition kinetics of Co3O4 to CoO were measured experimentally. CO2 and H2O were used as oxidants to reoxidize cobalt oxide reduced by thermal decomposition in repeated experiments. Co3O4/CoO redox couple has shown outstanding results for water splitting reaction compared to presented alternatives in the recent literature. Further studies on heat and mass transfer limitations in macroscopic scale were performed using COMSOL® Multiphysics platform. Finally, syngas production using cobalt membrane reactors was probed theroretically. Modeling studies on membrane reactors indicated promising results for cobalt oxide.