Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

Gtlpetrol LLC

National Institute for Strategic Technology Acquisition and Commercialization

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Technip Usa, Inc.

Niquan Energy LLC

Xiang-Dong Peng

Shankar Nataraj

John Michael Repasky

Shoou-I Wang

Blaine Edward Herb

William Robert Licht

Yu Zhang

Harold Henry Gunardson

Diwakar Garg

Jianguo Xu

Xianming Jimmy Li

Henry C Chan

Bernard A Toseland

Bryan Clair Hoke, Jr

Hoanh Nang Pham

Derek Miller

Geoffrey Colling Achilles

Shihong Yan

Kelly Danielle Aguilar

Qiong Zhou

Shylaja Gowda

Tori Dawn Courtney

Michael Enever

James Richard O'leary

Matthew H Macconnell

Winfried Stephen Hoglen

Timothy Christopher Golden

Ronald Pierantozzi

Kevin Boyle Fogash

Jeffrey Raymond Hufton

Gene Everad Parris

Andrew Wilson Wang

David Anthony Zagnoli

Eric Howard Klingenberg

David Hon Sing Ying

Bharat Lajjaram Bhatt

Eric Stanley Wagner

Krishnakumar Jambunathan

Paula Jean Battavio

Harold H Gunardson

Barry Wayne Diamond

James Richard O'Leary

Tsun-Chiu Robert Tsao

Matthew H MacConnell

Elizabeth M D'Addio

William Carl Rooney

Terry Lee Slager

Kalman Tari

Peter De Geest

Elizabeth M D'addio

Bryan Clair Hoke

David Hon Ying

Eric S Wagner

Hoanh Pham

James R O'LEARY

A process for producing syngas that uses the syngas product from an oxygen-fired reformer to provide all necessary heating duties, which eliminates the need for a fired heater. Without the flue gas stream leaving a fired heater, all of the carbon dioxide produced by the reforming process is concentrated in the high-pressure syngas stream, allowing essentially complete carbon dioxide capture.

Process for H2 and syngas production

A process for producing syngas that uses the syngas product from a partial oxidation reactor to provide all necessary heating duties, which eliminates the need for a fired heater. Soot is removed from the syngas using a dry filter to avoid a wet scrubber quenching the syngas stream and wasting the high-quality heat. Without the flue gas stream leaving a fired heater, all of the carbon dioxide produced by the reforming process is concentrated in the high-pressure syngas stream, allowing essentially complete carbon dioxide capture.

A segregated steam system and process in a hydrogen production facility wherein boiler feed water is heated by indirect heat exchange with a reformate, the heated boiler feed water is used to heat water condensate formed from the reformate, the heated water condensate is passed to a first steam drum for producing steam for a reformer feed gas mixture, and a second portion of the heated boiler feed water is passed to a second steam drum for producing steam for export.

Segregated steam system and process in a hydrogen production facility

Pressure swing adsorption process for reducing fluctuations in the flow rate of tail gas from the adsorption unit and reducing fluctuations in the stoichiometric oxidant flow rate required to completely combust the tail gas in a reformer furnace. Constant flow rate and constant fuel property can be obtained by intelligent mixing designs.

Reducing fluctuations in tail gas flow and fuel property from an adsorption unit

Reactive diluent fluid () is introduced into a stream of synthesis gas (or 'syngas') produced in a heat-generating unit such as a partial oxidation ('POX') reactor () to cool the syngas and form a mixture of cooled syngas and reactive diluent fluid. Carbon dioxide and/or carbon components and/or hydrogen in the mixture of cooled syngas and reactive diluent fluid is reacted () with at least a portion of the reactive diluent fluid in the mixture to produce carbon monoxide-enriched and/or solid carbon depleted syngas which is fed into a secondary reformer unit () such as an enhanced heat transfer reformer in a heat exchange reformer process. An advantage of the invention is that problems with the mechanical integrity of the secondary unit arising from the high temperature of the syngas from the heat-generating unit are avoided.

Process and apparatus for the production of synthesis gas

Reactive diluent fluid () is introduced into a stream of synthesis gas (or 'syngas') produced in a heat-generating unit such as a partial oxidation ('PDX') reactor () to cool the syngas and form a mixture of cooled syngas and reactive diluent fluid. Carbon dioxide and/or carbon components and/or hydrogen in the mixture of cooled syngas and reactive diluent fluid is reacted () with at least a portion of the reactive diluent fluid in the mixture to produce carbon monoxide-enriched and/or solid carbon depleted syngas which is fed into a secondary reformer unit () such as an enhanced heat transfer reformer in a heat exchange reformer process. An advantage of the invention is that problems with the mechanical integrity of the secondary unit arising from the high temperature of the syngas from the heat-generating unit are avoided.

Process for producing hydrogen where multiple streams are heated in parallel with reformate that has passed from the shift reactor. Each of the multiple streams are heated from a temperature below the dew point of the reformate to a temperature above the dew point of the reformate by reformate that is cooled from a temperature above the dew point of the reformate to a temperature below the dew point of the reformate. The multiple streams can include two or more of water condensate, boiler feed water, hydrocarbon feedstock, and pressure swing adsorption unit by-product gas.

Process for producing hydrogen

Process for producing a hydrogen-containing product and one or more liquid water products using catalytic steam-hydrocarbon reforming. In the process, a portion of the make-up water is heated by the reformate and another portion of the make-up water is heated by the combustion product gas prior to introducing the make-up water to a deaerator. Water in the combustion product gas is condensed to form a liquid water product. The process may be integrated with a thermal water desalination process.

Integrated process for the production of hydrogen and water

A catalytic steam-hydrocarbon reforming process for producing a hydrogen-containing product and export steam where a first stream of make-up water is heated by flue gases from the reformer and a second stream of make-up water is heated by reformate from the reformer prior to being introduced into a deaerator.

Hydrogen production process with high export steam

A process and system for producing a H-containing product gas and purified water from an integrated catalytic steam-hydrocarbon reforming and thermal water purification process. Raw water, such as salt water, is heated by indirect heat transfer with reformate from the catalytic steam reforming process for purifying raw water in one of a multiple effect distillation process and a multi-stage flash process.

Water purification using energy from a steam-hydrocarbon reforming process

System and process for producing a H-containing product gas and purified water from an integrated H-producing reforming and thermal water purification process. Raw water, such as salt water, is heated by indirect heat transfer with reformate from the H-producing reforming process for purifying raw water in a multiple effect distillation process.

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A system is set forth for the exothermic generation of soot depleted syngas comprising (i) reacting a hydrocarbon-containing fuel with an oxygen containing gas in a first reactor to produce the syngas and byproducts comprising CO, HO and soot; and (ii) introducing the syngas and byproducts into a second reactor containing a non-carbonaceous material that traps the soot for a sufficient time such that the majority of the byproduct soot is gasified via reaction with the byproduct COand/or HO to produce a syngas stream that is depleted in the soot. The system is particularly suitable for the practice of heat exchange reforming wherein a portion of the heat is recovered from the soot depleted syngas stream and used as at least a portion of the heat to facilitate the additional production of syngas via the (endothermic) catalytic reforming of natural gas and steam.

In-situ gasification of soot contained in exothermically generated syngas stream

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