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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 672691, 8 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/672691
Research Article

Thermodynamic Analysis of the Hydrogen Production from Ethanol: First and Second Laws Approaches

Yannay Casas-Ledón,1,2 Luis E. Arteaga-Perez,1 Mayra C. Morales-Perez,1 and Luis M. Peralta-Suárez1

1Chemical Engineering Department, Central University of Las Villas, Carretera a Camajuaní Km 5 y 1/2, Santa Clara, 54830 Villa Clara, Cuba
2Research Group ENVOC, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

Received 6 December 2011; Accepted 7 January 2012

Academic Editors: A. Ghoufi and P. Li

Copyright © 2012 Yannay Casas-Ledón et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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