Effluents reforming

Different fuels and components have been tested in automotive scale, adiabatic reactors to observe their relative reforming characteristics with various operating conditions. Ammonia (NH3) formation was monitored, and conditions were varied to observe under what conditions NH3 is made. Nitrogen-bound hydrocarbons were added to fuels to determine their effect on NH3 formation. Carbon formation was monitored during fuel processor operation by in situ laser measurements of the effluent reformate. Fuel composition effects on carbon formation were measured. 

Typical feedstock composition, yields and characteristics of effluents fron reforming and isomerization processes. j... 

Secunda discharges no process water effluents. AU. water streams produced are cleaned and reused in the plant. The methane and light hydrocarbons in the product are reformed with steam to generate synthesis gas for recycle (14). Even at this large scale, the cost of producing fuels and chemicals by the Fischer-Tropsch process is dominated by the cost of synthesis gas production. Sasol has estimated that gas production accounts for 58% of total production costs (39). 

Gas-Heated Reforming. Gas-heated reforming is an extension of the combined reforming concept where the primary reformer is replaced by a heat-transfer device in which heat for the primary reforming reaction is recovered from the secondary reformer effluent. Various mechanical designs have been proposed which are variants of a shell-and-tube heat exchanger (12,13). 

Selection of the high pressure steam conditions is an economic optimisation based on energy savings and equipment costs. Heat recovery iato the high pressure system is usually available from the process ia the secondary reformer and ammonia converter effluents, and the flue gas ia the reformer convection section. Recovery is ia the form of latent, superheat, or high pressure boiler feedwater sensible heat. Low level heat recovery is limited by the operating conditions of the deaerator. 

The carbon monoxide concentration of gas streams is a function of many parameters. In general, increased carbon monoxide concentration is found with an increase in the carbon-to-hydrogen ratio in the feed hydrocarbon a decrease in the steam-to-feed-carbon ratio increase in the synthesis gas exit temperature and avoidance of reequiUbration of the gas stream at a temperature lower than the synthesis temperature. Specific improvement in carbon monoxide production by steam reformers is made by recycling by-product carbon dioxide to the process feed inlet of the reformer (83,84). This increases the relative carbon-to-hydrogen ratio of the feed and raises the equiUbrium carbon monoxide concentration of the effluent. 

Reformer charge Reformer effluent Hydrocracker charge effluent Recycle gas... 

In order to produce more paraxylene than is available in catalytic reformate, a xylenes-isomerization plant is sometimes included in the processing scheme. The isomerization step uses the effluent (filtrate) from the paraxylene crystallization step as feed. The filtrate contains about 7-9 percent of paraxylene. The isomerization unit brings the concentration back to its equilibrium value of about 20 percent. 

Typical analysis of effluent from primary and secondary reformers... 

Catalytic reformer—reactor effluent gas (24-Inch stack) Dehydrogenation unit (12-inch stack) Hydrogen (31-inch stack) Hydrogen (30-inch stack) ... 

The catalytic reforming of CH4 by CO2 was carried out in a conventional fixed bed reactor system. Flow rates of reactants were controlled by mass flow controllers [Bronkhorst HI-TEC Co.]. The reactor, with an inner diameter of 0.007 m, was heated in an electric furnace. The reaction temperatoe was controlled by a PID temperature controller and was monitored by a separated thermocouple placed in the catalyst bed. The effluent gases were analyzed by an online GC [Hewlett Packard Co., HP-6890 Series II] equipped with a thermal conductivity detector (TCD) and carbosphere column (0.0032 m O.D. and 2.5 m length, 80/100 meshes), and identified by a GC/MS [Hewlett Packard Co., 5890/5971] equipped with an HP-1 capillary column (0.0002 m O.D. and 50 m length). 

I. Catalytic reformer, combined feed/effluent exchanger shell plate postweld heat treated at 1250°F. 

The plasma reformer efficiency reached 12.3% and 26% in gasoline auto thermal and steam reforming regimes, respectively. The typical composition of the effluent gas from the reformer operating in steam reforming mode was (vol%) H2—28.7, CO—15, C02—3, and CH4—40. 

Catalytic reformates, 13 703 25 168 Catalytic reformers, 13 557 aromatics from, 13 565 effluent separation from, 20 750 Catalytic reforming, 12 403 13 657-658 benzene manufacture, 3 604-606 as a source of toluene, 25 166 Catalytic silver sulfate, 23 536 Catalytic steam reforming reaction,... 

Carbon filters. For the combined effluent from the NOx reformers of the agent SILVER II system and the MPT, three drums of activated carbon, in series, are used to remove any residual agent and PCB vapor. Each of the drums in the filter contains 150 pounds of activated carbon. These filters are not used for the combined gaseous effluent from the energetics SILVER II system and the DTS. 

Figure 1-14 shows a simplified layout for an SOFC-based APU. The air for reformer operation and cathode requirements is compressed in a single compressor and then split between the unit operations. The external water supply shown in figure 1-14 will most likely not be needed the anode recycle stream provides water. Unreacted anode tail gas is recuperated in a tail gas burner. Additional energy is available in a SOFC system from enthalpy recovery from tail gas effluent streams that are typically 400-600°C. Current thinking is that reformers for transportation fuel based SOFC APUs will be of the exothermic type (i.e. partial oxidation or autothermal reforming), as no viable steam reformers are available for such fuels. 

An intrinsic, exothermic water-gas shift reaction occurs in the steam reformer reactor. The combined reaction, steam reforming and water gas shift, is endothermic. As such, an indirect high temperature heat source is needed to operate the reactor. This heat source usually takes the shape of an immediately adjacent high temperature furnace that combusts a small portion of the raw fuel or the fuel effluent from the fuel cell. Efficiency improves by using rejected heat from other parts of the system. Note that the intrinsic water-gas shift in the reactor may not lower the... 

Mole Percent Reformer Effluent Shifted Reformate... 

The LTSC effluent (stream 112) is utilized to superheat the steam required for the reformer and water gas shift reactions. The saturated steam sent to the superheater is supplied by the fuel cell water cooling circuit. The cooled stream (stream 113) is further cooled in a fuel gas contact... 

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