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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2004
Hongqiao Sun, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Daniel G. Casey, Kingwood, TX (US);
Vesna R. Mirkovic, Pearland, TX (US);
Bhaskar Balasubramanian, Houston, TX (US);
W. Spencer Wheat, Missouri City, TX (US);
Curtis L. Krause, Houston, TX (US);
Hongqiao Sun, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Daniel G. Casey, Kingwood, TX (US);
Vesna R. Mirkovic, Pearland, TX (US);
Bhaskar Balasubramanian, Houston, TX (US);
W. Spencer Wheat, Missouri City, TX (US);
Curtis L. Krause, Houston, TX (US);
Texaco Inc., San Ramon, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for use in regenerating a reactor shift bed catalyst are disclosed. The method comprises monitoring the saturation level of a reactor shift bed catalyst in a reformer; automatically detecting that the reactor shift bed catalyst has entered a saturated state; and automatically regenerating the reactor shift bed catalyst in response to automatically detecting the saturated state. The apparatus may be, in various aspects, a program storage method encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computing device, performs such a method; a computing apparatus programmed to perform such a method, or a control system performing such a method.