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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2013
Applicant:
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Inventors:
Xiang-Dong Peng, Orefield, PA (US);
Geoffrey Colling Achilles, Allentown, PA (US);
Blaine Edward Herb, New Tripoli, PA (US);
Eric Howard Klingenberg, Emmaus, PA (US);
Derek Miller, Emmaus, PA (US);
Assignee:
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C01B 3/38 (2006.01); C01B 3/24 (2006.01); C01B 3/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C01B 3/26 (2013.01);
Abstract
A process for producing a H-containing product gas and purified water from an integrated catalytic steam-hydrocarbon reforming and thermal water purification process. Raw water, such as salt water, is heated by indirect heat transfer with reformate from the catalytic steam reforming process for purifying raw water in one of a multiple effect distillation process and a multi-stage flash process.