The utilization of renewable energy technologies, particularly hydrogen, has seen a boom in interest and has spread throughout the world. Ethanol steam reformation is one of the primary methods capable of producing hydrogen efficiently and reliably. This paper provides an in-depth study of the reformulated system both theoretically and numerically, as well as a plan to explore the possibility of converting the system into its conservation form. Lastly, we offer an overview of several numerical approaches for solving the general first-order quasi-linear hyperbolic equation to the particular model for ethanol steam reforming (ESR). We conclude by presenting some results that would enable the usage of these ODE/PDE solvers to be used in non-linear model predictive control (NMPC) algorithms and discuss the limitations of our approach and directions for future work.

翻译：可再生能源技术，特别是氢能技术的利用已在全球范围内引起广泛兴趣并迅速推广。乙醇蒸汽重整是能够高效且稳定制氢的主要方法之一。本文从理论推导与数值计算两个维度对该重整系统进行了深入研究，同时提出了一套将其转化为守恒形式的可行性方案。最后，我们综述了求解一般一阶拟线性双曲型方程的多种数值方法，并将其应用于乙醇蒸汽重整（ESR）特定模型。通过展示相关结果，我们验证了这些常微分方程/偏微分方程求解器在非线性模型预测控制（NMPC）算法中的适用性，同时探讨了本方法的局限性及未来研究方向。