Shell Oil Comapny

Gert Jan Kramer

Ronald Jan Schoonebeek

Martin Van Sint Annaland

Gerrit Jan Barend Assink

Hendrik Martinus Wentinck

Roger Francis Cracknell

Eric Johannes Vos

Arian Nijmeijer

Eric Sevenhuijsen

Coen Willem Johannes Pieterse

Johannes Wijnbelt

Martin Jan Tuinier

Jurjen Wietze Van Der Meer

Willem Pieter Leenhouts

Jean Paul Lange

The invention relates to a process for the production of hydrogen and carbon dioxide from a hydrocarbonaceous feedstock, comprising: a) supplying a gaseous hydrocarbonaceous feedstock and steam to a reaction zone comprising a steam reforming catalyst and catalytically reforming the hydrocarbonaceous feedstock to produce a reformed gas comprising hydrogen and carbon dioxide; b) supplying a molecular oxygen-comprising gas to the permeate side of a first hydrogen separation membrane; c) contacting a part of the hydrogen with a first hydrogen separation membrane, allowing the hydrogen to permeate through the first hydrogen separation membrane and combusting the hydrogen with the molecular oxygen at a permeate side of the first hydrogen separation membrane to produce all heat necessary for catalytic reforming the hydrocarbonaceous feedstock; d) contacting the remainder of the hydrogen with a second hydrogen separation membrane, which is separate from the first hydrogen separation membrane, and allowing the hydrogen to permeate through the second hydrogen separation membrane to obtain a first effluent comprising a substantially pure stream of hydrogen; and e) removing a stream rich in carbon dioxide from the reaction zone as a second effluent. The invention further related to a reactor for such process and to a fuel cell system comprising in series such reactor and a fuel cell.

Process and reactor for the production of hydrogen and carbon dioxide and a fuel cell system

The invention provides a process for the separation of COfrom a gaseous feed stream, comprising the subsequent steps of: a) cooling a porous body in the form of a fixed bed () to a temperature below the sublimation temperature of COto obtain a cold body; b) contacting a gaseous feed stream () comprising COand one or more other gaseous compounds with the surface of the cold body to obtain a body comprising solid COand a CO-depleted effluent gas (); and c) removing the solid COby exposing the porous body comprising solid COto a fluid COstream () having a temperature above the sublimation temperature of COwhereby fluid CO() and a warm porous body are obtained.

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A process for operating a compression ignition internal combustion engine in combination with a catalytic partial oxidation reformer and, optionally, an exhaust gas aftertreater, wherein:

Process for operating a compression ignition internal combustion engine in combination with a catalytic reformer

The invention relates to a process for the catalytic partial oxidation of a hydrocarbonaceous feedstock, wherein a feed mixture having the hydrocarbonaceous feedstock and a molecular-oxygen containing gas is contacted with a catalyst system having an upstream part and a downstream part, the downstream part being in the form of a porous catalyst bed, wherein the catalyst system is retained in a reactor, the reactor having an upstream part that contains the upstream part of the catalyst system and a downstream part that contains the downstream part of the catalyst system, wherein the upstream part of the catalyst system only partly fills the cross-sectional area of the fluid flow path of the upstream part of the reactor and the downstream part of the catalyst system completely fills the cross-sectional area of the fluid flow path of the downstream part of the reactor. The invention further relates to a reactor having such a catalyst system and a catalytic reaction zone for the water-gas shift conversion of the effluent of the catalyst system, to a fuel cell system having such a reactor and a fuel cell, and to a vehicle provided with such a fuel cell system.

Catalytic partial oxidation process using a catalyst system having an upstream and a downstream part

A process for the catalytic partial oxidation of a hydrocarbonaceous feedstock with an oxygen-containing gas, wherein a flow of a feed mixture comprising the hydrocarbonaceous feedstock and the oxygen-containing gas is contacted with a catalyst comprising at least one metal selected from Group VIII of the Periodic Table supported on a catalyst carrier to form a conversion product comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen, wherein the catalyst is retained in a fixed arrangement in a reactor comprising a feed supply chamber which is in fluid communication with the upstream surface of the fixed arrangement, in which process a part of the conversion product formed flows back to the feed supply chamber. The invention further relates to an electrical-energy generating process, an electrical-energy generating system, and transport means provided with this electrical-energy generating system.

Process for the catalytic partial oxidation of a hydrocarbonaceous feedstock

A process for carrying out a chemical equilibrium reaction is disclosed in which, in a first stage, one or more reactants are contacted with a fixed arrangement of a catalyst under conditions such that the reactants and the products of the reaction are gaseous, the unconverted reactants and products of the first stage being passed to a second stage, in which they are contacted with a fixed arrangement of a catalyst and the reaction allowed to proceed in the presence of an absorbent capable of absorbing a product of the reaction. There is specifically disclosed a process for the synthesis of methanol from carbon monoxide and hydrogen, in which, in a first stage, carbon monoxide and hydrogen are contacted with a fixed arrangement of a catalyst active in catalyzing the synthesis of methanol under conditions such that the methanol formed is present as a gas under the prevailing reaction conditions, the unconverted carbon monoxide and hydrogen and methanol produced in the first stage being passed to a second stage, in which they are contacted with a fixed arrangement of a catalyst active in catalyzing the synthesis of methanol and the reaction allowed to proceed in the presence of an absorbent capable of absorbing methanol.

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Gert Jan Kramer