Process for the autothermal steam reforming of a hydrocarbon feedstock
AssigneeHaldor Topsoe A/S
InventorsPeter Seier Christensen, Thomas Sandahl Christensen, Ivar Ivarsen Primdahl
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Abstract
Process for the soot free autothermal steam reforming of a hydrocarbon feedstock by autothermally reforming the feedstock in an autothermal reactor at a given temperature and a given steam to carbon ratio in the feedstock and operating at a pressure in the reactor being above a critical value, where no soot is present in the steam reformed feedstock.
Claims5
Process for the soot free steam reforming of a hydrocarbon feedstock by autothermally reforming the feedstock in an autothermal reactor at a given temperature and a given steam to carbon ratio in the feedstock and operating at a pressure in the reactor above a critical value, where no soot is present in the steam reformed feedstock, said process further comprising the partial oxidation of the feedstock by burning at a substochiometric oxygen concentration;
- which the operation pressure is adjusted to a value of p.gtoreq.13.4-0.00753 T.sub.adiabatic -1.74 S/C, where
- p is the pressure in Mpa,
- T is the adiabatic as temperature in K of the reformed feedstock, and
- S/C is the molar steam-to-carbon ratio the feedstock.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.