Renewable hydrogen may be produced in the near term at a cost that is competitive withnatural gas reforming by integrating hydrogen production with existing industrialutilization of agricultural residues. A team of government, industrial, and academicorganizations is developing a steam reforming process to be demonstrated on thegaseous byproducts from a process for making activated carbon from densified peanutshells. The therm°Chemical user’s facility (TCUF) at NREL is the site for the initialshakedown of the scaled up reactor. It is interfaced with the 20-kg/hour fluidized-bedfast pyrolysis system and takes advantage of process chemical analysis and computercontrol and monitoring capabilities. This paper reports the initial results from thisengineering demonstration project.
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