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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2006
Robert Stevens Burlingame, Houston, TX (US);
Lloyd Edward Cizmar, Missouri City, TX (US);
Larry Gene Hackemesser, Houston, TX (US);
Laura Beth Aguilar, Houston, TX (US);
Robert Stevens Burlingame, Houston, TX (US);
Lloyd Edward Cizmar, Missouri City, TX (US);
Larry Gene Hackemesser, Houston, TX (US);
Laura Beth Aguilar, Houston, TX (US);
Kellogg Brown & Root LLC, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A syngas reforming reactor has a shell-and-tube configuration wherein the shell-side fluid flow path through the tube bundle has a longitudinal configuration. The reactor can include a shell-side inlet fluid distributor plate below the lower end of the tube bundle, and a flow sleeve in an enlarged-diameter discharge annulus at an upper end adjacent the tube sheet to prevent short-circuiting of the shell-side fluid into the shell-side fluid outlet. The tube bundle can include a plurality of ring baffles and lattice baffles. The longitudinal flow configuration can provide a lower shell-side pressure drop and lower cost compared to a conventional cross-flow reforming exchanger.