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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2012
Eugene S. Genkin, Allentown, PA (US);
Patricia Kentosh Hershman, Allentown, PA (US);
Edward Landis Weist, Jr., Macungie, PA (US);
Jianguo Xu, Wrightstown, PA (US);
Eugene S. Genkin, Allentown, PA (US);
Patricia Kentosh Hershman, Allentown, PA (US);
Edward Landis Weist, Jr., Macungie, PA (US);
Jianguo Xu, Wrightstown, PA (US);
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
A hydrogen production process wherein steam and a hydrocarbon feed is reacted in a prereformer, the prereformed intermediate is further reacted in an oxygen-based reformer, the reformate is shifted and then separated by a pressure swing adsorber to form a Hproduct stream and a tail gas, a first portion of the tail gas is recycled to the prereformer and/or the oxygen-based reformer, and a second portion of the tail gas is recycled to the pressure swing adsorber.