IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/rensus/v218y2025ics1364032125004502.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Key parameters influencing steam-reforming performance for hydrogen production

Author

Listed:
  • Boshagh, Fatemeh
  • Yoon, Ha-Jun
  • Lee, Chul-Jin

Abstract

Hydrogen production via steam reforming (SR) is technically and economically feasible. To achieve higher feedstock conversion and H2 yield, this study reviews the key parameters affecting SR, including feedstock type, temperature, steam-to-carbon molar ratio, pressure, space velocity, catalyst type, and reactor type. Accordingly, optimal parameter values must be selected considering thermodynamic, kinetic, and economic conditions. In addition, the challenges and prospects of the SR process are explored. Significant limitations of the SR process include overdependence on fossil fuels, CO2 emissions, high energy requirements, catalyst deactivation, heat management, and infrastructure development. However, adopting renewable and sustainable feedstocks such as biogas, renewable energy sources like wind, solar, hydropower, tidal, and geothermal, smaller-scale SR, and carbon capture utilization, and storage technology can ensure that SR remains a viable H2 production method alongside the increasing adoption of greener alternatives.

Suggested Citation

  • Boshagh, Fatemeh & Yoon, Ha-Jun & Lee, Chul-Jin, 2025. "Key parameters influencing steam-reforming performance for hydrogen production," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 218(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:rensus:v:218:y:2025:i:c:s1364032125004502
    DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2025.115777
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032125004502
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.rser.2025.115777?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to

    for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:rensus:v:218:y:2025:i:c:s1364032125004502. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/600126/description#description .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.