title: A Highly Efficient Sandwich-Like Symmetrical Dual-Phase Oxygen-Transporting Membrane Reactor for Hydrogen Production by Water Splitting.
abstract: Water splitting coupled with partial oxidation of methane (POM) using an oxygen-transporting membrane (OTM) would be a potentially ideal way to produce high-purity hydrogen as well as syngas. Over the past decades, substantial efforts have been devoted to the development of supported membranes with appropriate configurations to achieve considerable performance improvements. Herein, we describe the design of a novel symmetrical membrane reactor with a sandwich-like structure, whereby a largescale production (>10 mL min(-1)  cm(-2) ) of hydrogen and syngas can be obtained simultaneously on opposite sides of the OTM. Furthermore, this special membrane reactor could regenerate the coke-deactivated catalyst in situ by water steam in a single unit. These results represent an important first step in the development of membrane separation technologies for the integration of multiple chemical processes.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Callinstrasse 3A, 30167, Hannover, Germany. wei.fang@pci.uni-hannover.de.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Callinstrasse 3A, 30167, Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Steinbach
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian, 116023, China.
authors.forename: Zhongwei
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian, 116023, China. zhuxf@dicp.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Xuefeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Callinstrasse 3A, 30167, Hannover, Germany. armin.feldhoff@pci.uni-hannover.de.
authors.forename: Armin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Feldhoff
keywords: catalyst regeneration; hydrogen production; membrane reactor; methane; water splitting