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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
May. 29, 2015
Sgce Llc, Pasadena, TX (US);
Leo Bonnell, Houston, TX (US);
Miguel A. F. Santos, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Scott Golczynski, Houston, TX (US);
Bruce Allen Logue, II, Sugar Land, TX (US);
SGCE LLC, Pasadena, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of producing reformed gas as part of a Fischer-Tropsch ('FT') hydrocarbon synthesis is disclosed, including the steps of superheating at least a first portion of an FT tail gas produced as a by-product of an FT synthesis process, and forming a mixed gas by injecting at least a portion of an FT water stream, produced as a by-product of an FT synthesis process, into the superheated FT tail gas to form a mixed gas. The mixed gas is used as a feed to a front end of a syngas preparation unit. The amount of at least a portion of the FT water stream is selected to keep the mixed gas at least mostly and preferably entirely in a vapor phase. In some embodiments, a water-gas shift reactor converts the mixed gas to a converted mixed gas upstream of the front end. Other methods, apparatuses and systems are disclosed.