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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2009
Anthony Yu-chung Ku, Rexford, NY (US);
Harish Radhakrishna Acharya, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Parag Prakash Kulkarni, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Scott Michael Miller, Clifton Park, NY (US);
William Cook Livingood, Iii, Lakewood, CO (US);
Anthony Yu-Chung Ku, Rexford, NY (US);
Harish Radhakrishna Acharya, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Parag Prakash Kulkarni, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Scott Michael Miller, Clifton Park, NY (US);
William Cook Livingood, III, Lakewood, CO (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A syngas cleanup section includes a water-gas shift reactor, a first operation unit and a second operation unit. The first operation unit includes a high permeance membrane with H/COselectivity in flow communication with the water-gas shift reactor to provide a H-rich permeate stream and an H-poor retentate stream. The second operation unit recovers Hand CO from the retentate stream to produce a single, CO-rich product stream, the entire content of which has a minimum pressure of at least about 10.0 bar. In one embodiment, the second operation unit includes a membrane with Knudsen selectivity for permeating H, CO and CO. In this embodiment, the permeate streams are combined to produce a Hand CO-rich fuel stream used by a combined cycle power generation unit to produce electricity, and the retentate stream is sent to a catalytic oxidation unit to produce the CO-rich product stream. In another embodiment, the second operation unit is the catalytic oxidation unit.