Enhancement of Equilibrium Shift in Dehydrogenation Reactions Using A Novel Membrane Reactor

Electroless deposition of palladium thin-films on a surface of microporous ceramic substrate has been used to develop a new class of perm-selective inorganic membrane. In our previous two reports, we presented mathematical models to describe transport of hydrogen the palladium-ceramic composite membrane in single-stage permeation cell in cocurrent and countercurrent flow configurations. Analysis shows that the model equations have a singular point. In this report, a method is described how to avoid the singular point in order to solve the model equations numerically. To show the usefulness of the new method, a single-stage gas permeation for a three component system, without chemical reaction under cocurrent flow configuration has been used as an example