Phillips Petroleum Company

Homer M Fox

Warren M Ewert

Francis M Brinkmeyer

George R Hill

D F Rohr, Jr

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for reforming a hydrocarbon feedstock in the presence of steam using a steam-active reforming catalyst The present invention can generally be used in conjunction with any steam-active reforming processes wherein the hydrocarbon reforming and catalyst regeneration operations are conducted simultaneously and the catalyst is regenerated using a steam-diluted oxygen (or air) regeneration medium. In the present invention, catalyst regeneration effluent gas is advantageously reused in the reforming operation to provide at least a portion of the steam environment required for reforming the hydrocarbon feedstock. Free oxygen is preferably removed from the regeneration effluent gas before the regeneration effluent gas is brought into contact with the hydrocarbon feedstock.

Method for reforming hydrocarbons

Normally solid polymers can be fed into a carbon black furnace or carbon black reactor together with the fuel and/or the oxidant forming the hot combustion gases; the polymers are at least partially combusted in the carbon black reactor.

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Bartlesville, OK, United States of America

Homer M Fox