METHANE-TO-HYDROGEN CONVERSION
IN THE FILTRATION-COMBUSTION WAVE
OF RICH METHANE-AIR MIXTURES

Yu. M. Dmitrenko, S. A. Zhdanok,
R. A. Klyovan, and V. G. Minkina

UDC 536.46

The superadiabatic-effect-based process of noncatalytic 
conversion of methane to a hydrogenous synthesis gas in a cocurrent 
filtration-combustion wave has been considered. The influence of the 
composition and specific flow rate of the working mixture on the basic 
parameters of conversion - the maximum temperature in the filtration-
combustion wave, the wave's propagation velocity, and the composition 
of the reaction products - has been investigated. Filtration-combustion 
regimes optimum from the viewpoint of the most efficient conversion 
of methane to a hydrogenous synthesis gas have been found from the 
experimental data obtained.

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National 
Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, 
Belarus; email: rk1yovan@itmo.by. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 80, No. 2, pp. 90-95, March-April, 2007. Original 
article submitted July 13, 2006.