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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2011
Khodaram Rustom Khosravian, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Ronald Frederick Tyree, Richmond, TX (US);
Patrick Joseph Mckenna, Houston, TX (US);
Khodaram Rustom Khosravian, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Ronald Frederick Tyree, Richmond, TX (US);
Patrick Joseph McKenna, Houston, TX (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The disclosed embodiments include systems for using an expander. In a first embodiment, a system includes a flow path and a gasification section disposed along the flow path. The gasification section is configured to convert a feedstock into a syngas. The system also includes a scrubber disposed directly downstream of the gasification section and configured to filter the syngas. The system also includes a first expander disposed along the flow path directly downstream from the scrubber and configured to expand the syngas. The syngas comprises an untreated syngas.