Thermal and chemical reaction performance analyses of steam methane reforming in porous media solar thermochemical reactor

In order to investigate the thermochemical reaction performance of steam methane reforming (SMR), the steady heat and mass transfer model coupled with thermochemical reaction kinetics is developed for the volumetric porous media solar thermochemical reactor. The local non-thermal equilibrium (LNTE) model with modified P1 approximation is adopted to investigate the temperature distributions of the solid phase and fluid phase. For the solid phase...