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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2022
L'air Liquide Société Anonyme Pour L'etude ET L'exploitation Des Procédés Georges Claude, Paris, FR;
Karsten Covella, Frankfurt, DE;
Hans Kopetsch, Bad Homburg, DE;
Bryce Williams, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Julien Aoun, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for producing methanol from a synthesis gas is provided. The method includes (i) producing, in a partial oxidation chamber, the synthesis gas having a stoichiometric number of less than 1.8 by performing a partial oxidation process with a hydrocarbon stream and an oxygen stream, (ii) passing, in a water-gas shift reactor, the synthesis gas over a water-gas shift catalyst to convert at least a portion of carbon monoxide and water into hydrogen and carbon dioxide, (iii) producing a dry, shifted synthesis gas by separating liquid condensate from shifted synthesis gas, (iv) combining, in a recycle compressor, the dry, shifted synthesis gas with a recycle synthesis gas comprised of unreacted synthesis gas and a hydrogen rich product to form a mixed synthesis gas stream, and (v) converting, in a cooled methanol synthesis reactor, at least a portion of the mixed synthesis gas stream into methanol.