Co-production of carbon monoxide-rich syngas wth high purity hydrogen

A process for simultaneously producing a syngas product having a H2/CO ratio of 2.5 or less and a hydrogen gas product, said process comprising the steps of:

• passing a feed gas comprising a hydrocarbon through a primary reformer to provide a primary effluent;
• diverting a portion of said effluent from said primary reformer to provide a side stream separate from a primary stream of said effluent;
• reacting water and carbon monoxide in said primary stream to provide an enriched primary stream having increased amounts of carbon dioxide and hydrogen therein;
• extracting carbon dioxide from said enriched primary stream to provide a hydrogen enriched primary stream and primary extracted carbon dioxide;
• processing said hydrogen enriched primary stream to provide said hydrogen gas product;
• feeding at least a portion of said side stream to said secondary reformer to provide a secondary reformer effluent;
• cooling said secondary reformer effluent to provide a cooled side stream;
• extracting carbon dioxide from said cooled side stream to provide said syngas product and secondary extracted carbon dioxide;
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• combining said primary and secondary extracted carbon dioxide with said side stream upstream of said secondary reformer to increase the amount of carbon dioxide being fed to the secondary reformer.