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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Vijay A. Deshpande, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texaco Inc., San Ramon, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01J 7/00 ; B01J 8/02 ; B01J 8/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01J 7/00 ; B01J 8/02 ; B01J 8/04 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for carrying out a multi-step process of converting hydrocarbon fuel to a substantially pure hydrogen gas feed includes a plurality of modules arranged in a nested manner along a common axis. The multi-step process includes: providing a fuel processor having a plurality of modules arranged so that they are nested one within the other; and feeding the hydrocarbon fuel successively through each of the modules in the reactor to produce the hydrogen rich gas.