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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2013
L'air Liquide, Société Anonyme Pour L'étude ET L'éxploitation Des Procédés Georges Claude, Paris, FR;
Bruce Eng, Houston, TX (US);
Rahul Khandelwal, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An integrated reforming and power generation process is provided. This process employs a steam methane reformer to provide a hot process gas stream and a flue gas stream, utilizes the hot process gas stream to provide heat to produce a total steam stream comprising a process steam stream and an excess steam stream, and utilizes the flue gas stream to provide heat to at least a pre-reformer mixture stream, a reformer feed stream, the process steam stream and a pre-reformer steam stream The flue gas stream also provides heat to an integrated power generation process, and the excess steam stream is less than 15% of the total steam stream.