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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2012
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Eugene S. Genkin, Allentown, PA (US);
Kevin Boyle Fogash, Wescosville, PA (US);
Kathleen M. Dent, Orefield, PA (US);
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
A steam methane reforming process for producing a hydrogen product while capturing COfrom the process. Steam and a hydrocarbon are reformed in a catalytic reformer. The reformate is separated by pressure swing adsorption to form the hydrogen product and a PSA tail gas. The tail gas is returned to the reformer as a fuel. The fuel is combusted with synthetic air where the synthetic air is formed by combining a portion of the flue gas with industrial grade oxygen. The flue gas consists essentially of COand HO. The HO is condensed out of another portion of the flue gas to form an essentially pure COproduct.