GT Podcast

Episode 10 | FUEL REFORMERS

Welcome to the tenth episode of the Gamma Technologies’ GT Tech Talk! In this episode, hosts Ahmed Abouhussein, PhD and Lalit Patidar, PhD are joined by Deivanayagam Hariharan (Staff Application Engineer, Reactive Flow Systems) and Harish Chhatija (Senior Engineer, Application Engineering) to discuss fuel reformer simulation!

Episode Timestamps

0:00 – Introduction of guests, Deiva Hariharan and Harish Chhatija
2:20 – Three main types of hydrogen production processes
4:26 – Challenges with electrolysis
6:15 – Steam reforming process
9:47 – GT-SUITE simulation study on modeling and analysis of the hydrogen production via steam reforming of ethanol, methanol, and methane fuels
14:35 – Are different kinds of reformers needed for different fuels?
18:42 – GT-SUITE modeling catalyst poisoning
20:21 – Does temperature have the biggest effect on hydrogen yield?
23:53 – Reformer system level analysis with fuel cells or other components
25:26 – Liquid fuel reformers and electrolysis
27:20 – Scale of reformer technologies
29:32 – Regulations on reformers
32:22 – Methods to improving reformer technologies