Papers by Keyword: Porous Metal Fiber Sintered Felts

Abstract: Using the designed multi-tooth tool, a novel porous metal fiber sintered felt (PMFSF) with three-dimensional reticulated structure has been produced by solid-state sintering of copper fibers. The copper fibers were fabricated using the cutting method. According to the SEM results, it was found that there were two kinds of sintering joints of surface contact and crossing fiber meshing among the fibers in the PMFSF. The coarser sintering joints will help to enhance the mechanical strength of PMFSF. Based on the structure characteristic, a three-dimensional model with the cubic pore cell structure was established to describe the structure of PMFSF. In addition, the effectiveness of geometric model was verified by the test results of specific surface area of PMFSF.

Abstract: The porous metal fiber sintered felt (PMFSF), a new catalyst support, was successfully used to construct a methanol steam reforming microreactor for hydrogen production. To study the transport characteristics of PMFSFs, a three-dimensional model with the cubic pore cell structure for PMFSFs was established. Using computational fluid dynamics fluent software, the velocity and pressure distribution when the fluid through the PMFSFs was investigated by changing the porosity of PMFSFs and inlet velocity of the fluid. In addition, fluid temperature distribution was analyzed under different inlet velocities by setting the temperature of fluid and wall. The result shows that the PMFSFs greatly enhance the transport characteristics because of its three-dimensional network structure and microchannel structure, it will become an ideal candidate for catalyst support material.