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Air Liquide Global E&c Solutions Germany Gmbh

Frederic Camy-Peyret

Bernard Labegorre

Julien Cances

Pavol Pranda

M Usman Ghani

Florian Gautier

Sylvain Grillon

Rajani K Varagani

Susie Levesque

Antonio Coscia

Dieter Ulber

Holger Schlichting

Ulrich Wolf

Sven Pohl

Diana Tudorache

Udo Zolnowski

Fabrice Mathey

A furnace for performing an endothermic process comprising tubes containing a catalyst for converting a gaseous feed, wherein tubes are positioned in rows inside the furnace, wherein burners are mounted between the tubes and between the tubes and the furnace walls parallel to the tubes row and wherein the burners rows and the tubes rows are ended by end walls and are divided into sections with the distance from the end burner to the end wall being B2W, the distance between two adjacent burners in the section being B2B, and half the distance in-between two sections being B2S, wherein the burners in the rows are arranged in such a way that the ratios B2B/B2W and B2B/B2S are greater than 1.3 thus limiting the occurrence of the flame merging phenomenon and reducing significantly the quadratic mean of the tube temperature profile.

Apparatus for endothermic process with improved burners arrangement

A furnace for performing an endothermic process comprises tubes containing a catalyst for converting a gaseous feed, said tubes positioned inside the furnace, inner burners mounted to a furnace roof between the tubes, and outer burners mounted to the furnace roof between the tubes and a furnace wall. The outer burners are positioned close to the furnace wall, and configured to operate with 45-60% of the power of the inner burners and with an inlet velocity between 90 to 110% of the inlet velocity of the inner burners.

Process and apparatus for endothermic reactions

A reformer tube for producing synthesis gas by steam reforming of hydrocarbon-containing feed gases, preferably natural gas, includes one or more helically coiled heat exchanger tubes which are arranged within a catalyst bed of a reforming catalyst and are helically coiled over part of their length located within the catalyst bed and are otherwise straight are present, where the straight proportion of the heat exchanger tubes and/or the helix pitch of the helically coiled part alters within the catalyst bed and matching to requirements of the pressure drop, the heat exchange properties, and the corrosion resistance.

Reformer tube with internal heat exchange

In one embodiment, a method for generating heat energy includes injecting a stream having a concentration of at least 50% oxygen (Ostream) into a primary gas stream through a mixer, the mixer discharging the Ostream as two or more spaced jets traversing the primary stream, thereby enriching the primary gas stream. The method further includes mixing fuel with the enriched primary gas stream, thereby forming a fuel stream; and combusting the fuel stream, thereby forming a flue gas stream.

Device and method for efficient mixing of two streams

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Frederic Camy-Peyret