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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 1990
Filed:
Apr. 07, 1988
Alan T Perka, Macungie, PA (US);
Thomas H Hsiung, Emmaus, PA (US);
Joseph Klosek, Wescosville, PA (US);
Robert B Moore, Allentown, PA (US);
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to an improvement to a process for the production of methanol from synthesis gas containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen utilizing a three phase or liquid-phase reaction technology. The improvement to the process is the addition of relatively small amounts of water to the liquid-phase reactor thereby allowing for the use of a CO-rich synthesis gas for the production of methanol by effectuating in the same reactor the methanol synthesis and water-gas shift reactions. A portion of the unreacted synthesis gas stream from the liquid-phase reactor is separated into a hydrogen-rich component and a carbon monoxide-rich component. The hydrogen-rich component is combined with a portion of the unreacted synthesis gas stream from the liquid-phase reactor to form a gas-phase methanol reactor feed stream for producing methanol, and the carbon monoxide-rich component is combined with the unreacted effluent from the gas-phase methanol reactor to form a feed stream for combustion in a gas turbine.