Suk-Hwan Kang
Dr. Suk-Hwan Kang is the director of the Clean Energy Conversion Center at the Institute for Advanced Engineering (Korea). He is working on CO2 capture and conversion, including hydrogen production (steam reforming, auto-thermal reforming, dry reforming, etc.). He is currently carrying out the projects with support from the Ministry of Science and ICT, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, and the Ministry of Environment. Results from the above research areas have been published in more than 50 papers in Applied Catal. B, Fuel Process. Technol., and other journals. He also serves as vice president of the Korean Society of Energy & Climate Change (KOSECC) and a board member of the Korea Society of Clean Technology and the Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (KSIEC).
Presentation title: Dry auto-thermal reforming of CH4 for syngas production directly from flue gas with low CO2
Abstract: The climate change crisis has been warned by carious institutions, and today, disasters caused by such climate change are occurring around the world. Therefore, countries around the world are making various efforts to solve this climate change crisis, and ways to reduce greenhouse gases are recognized as one of them. CCU technology is a technology that converts carbon dioxide and is receiving high attention as a key technology for reducing greenhouse gases. However, conventional dry reforming of methane (DRM) utilizes CO2 at high concentrations, so a CO2 capture process is included, resulting in additional CO2 emissions. In addition, since DRM involves a strong endothermic reaction, the temperature of the catalyst is lowered during the reaction, causing problems such as coke generation, catalyst deactivation and reactor clogging. In order to solve the problem of DRM with CO2 capture, this study developed a dry auto-thermal reforming of methane (DARM) that produces syngas by directly reacting CH4 and CO2 gas with low oxygen concentration and without a carbon capture device.
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT) (Project No. NRF-2022M3J2A1053003).