Questair Technologies Inc.

Xebec Adsorption Inc.

University Technologies International, Inc.

G4 Insights Inc.

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

Surajit Roy

Bowie Gordon Keefer

James A Sawada

Matthew L Babicki

Brian G Sellars

Soheil Alizadeh-Khiavi

Erik Paul Johannes

Aaron M Pelman

Michael J Brown

Edward J Rode

Andre Boulet

Jean St-Pierre

Shanna Denine Knights

Steven Mitchell Kuznicki

David G Doman

Andrea C Gibbs

Alain Carel

Amy Chiu

Amy E Nelson

Ian Spencer Parker

John Grace

Alaa Adris

Barry Pruden

Andre Jason Joseph Boulet

Andre J J Boulet

Ian S Parker

Andre J Boulet

Steven M Kuznicki

Erik P Johannes

Power plant systems and processes are described that enable recovery of at least a portion of the fuel storage energy associated with a storage system for supplying fuel to the power plant systems. A first embodiment of an energy-recovery power plant system includes at least one fuel storage container and at least one expander that can receive fuel from the fuel storage container at a first pressure and provide the fuel to the power plant at a second pressure that is lower than the first pressure. A second embodiment of an energy-recovery power plant system includes a first conduit fluidly coupling the fuel storage container and the power plant for delivering fuel from the fuel storage container to the power plant and at least one regenerative thermodynamic cycle engine thermally coupled to the first conduit such that heat may be exchanged between the fuel and a working fluid for the regenerative thermodynamic cycle engine.

Power plant with energy recovery from fuel storage

An inventive adsorptive gas separation process is provided capable of producing a purified methane product gas as a light non-adsorbed product gas as opposed to a heavy desorbed exhaust gas component, from a feed gas mixture comprising at least methane, and carbon dioxide. In an embodiment of the invention, the feed gas mixture may comprise at least about 10% carbon dioxide, and the purified methane product gas may be desirably purified to contain less than about 5000 ppm carbon dioxide. In another embodiment of the invention, the feed gas mixture may comprise at least about 50% carbon dioxide, and the purified methane product gas may be desirably purified to contain less than about 5000 ppm carbon dioxide.

Separation of carbon dioxide from other gases

A process and system for providing a hydrogen-containing gas stream to a fuel cell anode that includes providing a hydrogen-containing gas stream that includes carbon monoxide, introducing the hydrogen-containing gas stream into a pressure swing adsorption module that includes at least one carbon monoxide-selective adsorbent to produce a purified hydrogen-containing gas stream, and introducing the purified hydrogen-containing gas stream to the fuel cell anode. The pressure swing adsorption module can also include a second adsorbent and/or catalyst. Also disclosed is a fuel cell system coupled to an internal combustion engine and a fuel cell system that utilizes fuel cell waste heat for vaporizing a hydrocarbon/water mixture.

Systems and processes for providing hydrogen to fuel cells

Improved adsorbent sheet based parallel passage adsorbent structures for enhancing the kinetic selectivity of certain kinetic-controlled adsorption processes, such as PSA, TSA and PPSA processes, and combinations thereof, are provided. The enhancements in kinetic selectivity made possible through the implementation of the present inventive improved adsorbent structures may unexpectedly enable significant intensification of selected kinetic adsorption processes relative to attainable performance with conventional adsorbent materials in beaded or extruded form. Such process intensification enabled by the present inventive adsorbent structures may provide for increased adsorption cycle frequencies, and increased gas flow velocities within the adsorbent beds, which may increase the productivity and/or recovery of a kinetic adsorption system incorporating the inventive adsorbent structures.

Engineered adsorbent structures for kinetic separation

A method and system for adsorptive separation of a feed gas mixture provides for increased system efficiency and product recovery. The requirement for purge gas streams consuming desired product gas to regenerate adsorption beds is reduced through an inventive method for adsorbent selection and adsorption bed and process design.

Adsorptive separation of gas streams

The present disclosure relates to systems and processes for adsorptive gas separations where a first gas mixture including components A and B is to be separated so that a first product of the separation is enriched in component A, while component B is mixed with a third gas component C contained in a displacement purge stream to form a second gas mixture including components B and C, and with provision to prevent cross contamination of component C into the first product containing component A, or of component A into the second gas mixture containing component C. The invention may be applied to hydrogen (component A) enrichment from syngas mixtures, where dilute carbon dioxide (component B) is to be rejected such as directly to the atmosphere, and with preferably nitrogen-enriched air as the displacement purge stream containing residual oxygen (component C).

Gas separation by combined pressure swing and displacement purge

Disclosed embodiments of the apparatus address the challenges of rotary PSA systems, both axial and radial flow, with M>1 by providing interpenetrating, layered manifolds to accommodate all of the steps of a complex PSA cycle, suitable with equal compactness for any value of &ldquo;M&rdquo;. This approach extends readily to accommodate a plurality of rotary PSA modules and their cooperating compression machinery within a single layered manifold assembly for a single PSA plant train. Described embodiments of the rotary PSA apparatus include stators that define fluid ports. In particular embodiments of the described apparatus, a second stator defines pressure swing adsorption cycle sectors, each sector being defined by a light product delivery port, light product withdrawal ports, and light reflux return ports. The adsorber elements may directly contact one or more of the stators in a fluidly sealing manner (i.e., have a clearance gap of from about 0 to about 50 microns) using described reinforced adsorbers. The method comprises providing an embodiment of the described apparatus and then supplying at least one feed fluid to pressurize an adsorber element of the adsorber sets to substantially a higher pressure to initiate a pressure swing adsorption cycle.

Layered manifold pressure swing adsorption device and method

A process of producing hydrogen by autothermal steam reformation of a hydrocarbon comprises the steps of providing a reactor vessel having a fluidized catalyst bed, introducing steam and a gaseous hydrocarbon, introducing oxygen, maintaining the bed temperature below the spontaneous combustion temperature of the hydrocarbon in a fluidized bed, and withdrawing hydrogen by means of a perm selective membrane. An apparatus for producing hydrogen comprises a reactor vessel, steam and hydrocarbon inlets, an oxygen inlet, a fluidized bed of catalyst within the reactor vessel and a perm selective membrane for withdrawing hydrogen from the reactor.

Low-temperature autothermal steam reformation of methane in a fluidized bed

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