Dehydrogenation process
AssigneeAgency of Industrial Science and Technology
InventorNaotsugu Itoh
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Abstract
A dehydrogenation apparatus comprising a dehydrogenation reaction chamber and a hydrogen combustion chamber adjoining to the dehydrogenation chamber through a hydrogen-permeable membrane, wherein the dehydrogenation reaction chamber has a tube for introducing a material to be dehydrogenated and a tube for discharging a dehydrogenation product, while the hydrogen combustion chamber has a tube for introducing oxygen or an oxygen-containing gas and a tube for discharging a hydrogen combustion gas, and the dehydrogenation reaction chamber and hydrogen combustion chamber are covered with a heat-insulating material.
Claims3
A process for dehydrogenation, comprising:
- performing a dehydrogenation reaction in one of two reaction zones arranged adjacent to each other through a hydrogen-permeable membrane, thereby producing a dehydrogenation product and hydrogen,
- separating said hydrogen from said dehydrogenation product by discharging said dehydrogenation product from said one of two reaction zones and, at the same time, permitting the hydrogen obtained to enter the other reaction zone through said hydrogen-permeable membrane;
- introducing oxygen or oxygen-containing gas into said other reaction zone and subjecting the hydrogen to combustion in said other reaction zone;
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- discharging the resultant combustion product from said other reaction zone and, at the same time, supplying at least a portion of the heat generated by said combustion to said dehydrogenation reaction.
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