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US 12,049,400 B2Granted
Integrated hydrogen production and bio-renewable conversion process
AssigneeUop LLC
InventorsWilliam Cady, Elizabeth Carter, Bradley Russell, James T. Wexler, Addison Cruz, Erick J. Bennett, III, Kurt Kraus, Stefano Bietto, Kyle Cuellar, Oluwaseyi Kayode, Suryanarayana Murthy Konda Naga Venkata
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Abstract
A bio-renewable conversion process for making fuel from bio-renewable feedstocks is combined with a hydrogen production process that includes recovery of CO2. The integrated process uses a purge gas stream comprising hydrogen from the bio-renewable hydrocarbon production process in the hydrogen production process.
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A method of producing a hydrogen-enriched product and recovering CO2 from a hydrogen production process unit comprising:
- processing a feed stream comprising hydrocarbons or a carbonaceous feedstock in a hydrogen production process unit to produce a synthesis gas mixture comprising hydrogen, carbon dioxide, water, and at least one of methane, carbon monoxide, nitrogen, and argon;
- separating an effluent stream from the hydrogen production process unit in a first pressure swing adsorption (PSA) system that produces at least two product streams into at least a first high-pressure hydrogen stream enriched in hydrogen and a hydrogen depleted tail gas stream;
- compressing the hydrogen depleted tail gas stream in a compressor to form a compressed tail gas stream;
- separating the compressed tail gas stream in a CO2 recovery system producing a CO2-enriched product stream and a second gas stream comprising hydrogen;
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- introducing at least a portion of a purge gas stream comprising hydrogen from a bio-renewable conversion process for making a hydrocarbon product from a bio-renewable feedstock into a process unit used in the method of producing hydrogen and recovering CO2.
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