Toyo Engineering Company

One such catalytic system has been pilot planted by Toyo Engineering Company (7 ). It utilizes a combination catalyst and specially designed feedstock vaporization system to process hydrocarbons as heavy as crude oil to obtain reasonable conversions to hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Another process announced by Grand Paroise uses a fluidized bed of catalyst for the reforming step (8). Heat required is introduced into the fluidized catalyst by burning fuel inside of tubes immersed in the bed. Both of these systems have been extensively tested in large pilot installations and could be included in commerical installations in the near future if justified by economic considerations. 

A number of processes have been developed to convert coal- or natural gas-based syngas into DME. The prominent ones include those by Haldor Topsoe, NKK Corporation, Air Products, Toyo Engineering Company, and the University of Akron, Electric Power Research Institute. A brief description of these processes is given below. 

To improve treatment of these streams, Toyo Engineering Company and Mitsui Toatsu Company developed an integrated pollution control system of a urea plant, which is given in Figure 19.6. 

In 1993 Energy Research Company (ERC) of Danbury and Torrington, CT, made a test of a 120 kW MCFC for 250 h [333], This is a prototype stack for a 2 MW, natural-gas-fueled power plant [358], ERC has announced that after these initial demonstrations it expects its MCFC power plant of about 100 MW to be commercialized at the beginning of the next century. In Japan, Tonen Corp., Sanyo Electric Corp. and Toyo Engineering Corp. are conducting tests on 10 kW external-reforming-type MCFC stacks [338], Likewise, in 1993, Hitachi Ltd. [359] has... 

Pilot developments are under way for the steam reforming treatment of heavy residues by the Japanese company Toyo Engineering Co. 

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