Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

Arthur Daniel Bixler

Shankar Nataraj

Shoou-I Wang

David M Nicholas

Thomas M Roden

David Richard Barnes, Jr

Tarun D Vakil

According to the present invention, hydrogen/carbon monoxide synthesis gas (also called syngas) is produced by injection of a second reactant stream into a hydrocarbon reformer at a location between the entry and discharge ends of the reformer. The second reactant stream can contain: carbon dioxide; a mixture of carbon dioxide and hydrocarbon; a mixture of hydrocarbon and steam, a mixture of carbon dioxide and steam; or a mixture of carbon dioxide with hydrocarbon and steam. All or part of the mixtures containing hydrocarbon and steam can be prereformed hydrocarbon in steam.

Reforming with intermediate reactant injection

A process is provided for removing CO and/or H S from a gas mixture containing as impurities CO and/or H S and at least one other impurity selected from the group consisting of a cyanide and ammonia. The process includes contacting at least a portion of the reflux stream from the overhead vapor from a stripping column of an acid gas removal solvent (i.e., alkanolamine) treatment plant with an anion exchange resin to remove corrosive impurities. The ion-exchanged reflux stream is then recycled to the top of the stripping column or into the bulk circulating acid gas removal solvent (i.e., alkanolamine) passing from the bottom of the stripping column.

Removal of corrosive contaminants from alkanolamine absorbent process

An energy efficient process for the direct reduction of iron ore is disclosed. The process utilizes a combination of primary steam methane reforming and secondary (autothermal) reforming, along with the use of oxygen for soot generation to achieve a greater than 11 percent reduction in the energy requirement to produce sponge iron from iron ore.

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Arthur Daniel Bixler