A combined experimental and numerical investigation of flow dynamic in a methane reformer filled with Α-Al₂O₃-supported catalyst

Engineering & Materials Science

• Aluminum oxide 72%
• Catalyst supports 100%
• Catalysts 16%
• Computational fluid dynamics 28%
• Computer simulation 41%
• Experiments 6%
• Flow of gases 18%
• Flow rate 28%
• Methane 70%
• Nickel 17%
• Numerical models 15%
• Packed beds 22%
• Porosity 16%
• Porous materials 18%
• Pressure drop 16%
• Reynolds number 15%

Physics & Astronomy

• beds 24%
• catalysts 70%
• charge flow devices 57%
• computer programs 18%
• divergence 22%
• flow velocity 40%
• gas flow 23%
• mesh 23%
• methane 69%
• nickel 20%
• porosity 18%
• pressure drop 27%
• Reynolds number 21%
• simulation 28%

Chemical Compounds

• Catalyst 31%
• Flow Kinetics 38%
• Methane 59%
• Porosity 29%
• Pressure Drop 31%
• Resistance 31%
• Reynolds Number 34%
• Simulation 47%
• Velocity 42%