The aim of this work is to analyze the potential application of micro porous silica membrane reactor carrying out methanol steam reforming reaction for hydrogen production. As a further study, a comparison with dense Pd-Ag membrane reactor and a traditional reactor, working at the same operating conditions of silica membrane reactor, is realized. To this purpose and as a first approach, a one-dimensional non-isothermal and unsteady-state numerical model was developed and its validation was realized by comparing the theoretical results with experimental data. In all three cases, a good agreement between modeling results and experimental data was found. So, the model was used for studying the effect of some important operating parameters such as temperature and pressure on the performance of silica membrane reactor in terms of methanol conversion and hydrogen recovery. The same study was performed for both dense Pd-Ag membrane and traditional reactors. The modeling analyses showed that the membrane reactors present comparable performance to the traditional reactor in any operating condition. Moreover, due to higher hydrogen permeability, the dense Pd-Ag membrane reactor showed a higher performance in comparison to the silica membrane reactor. Furthermore, the conversion of methanol and the mole fraction of each component were measured in different places at various points in time. Keywords : Hydrogen production, Methanol steam reforming, Modeling, Membrane reactor