Methanation assembly using multiple reactors
AssigneeFuelCell Energy, Inc.
InventorsFred C. Jahnke, Sanjay C. Parab
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Abstract
A methanation assembly for use with a water supply and a gas supply containing gas to be methanated in which a reactor assembly has a plurality of methanation reactors each for methanating gas input to the assembly and a gas delivery and cooling assembly adapted to deliver gas from the gas supply to each of said methanation reactors and to combine water from the water supply with the output of each methanation reactor being conveyed to a next methanation reactor and carry the mixture to such next methanation reactor.
Claims28
A methanation assembly responsive to a gas supply containing gas to be methanated and a water supply comprising;
- a reactor assembly including a plurality of methanation reactors each for methanating gas input to the assembly;
- a gas delivery and cooling assembly adapted to deliver gas from said gas supply to each of said methanation reactors and to combine a cooling liquid comprising water from said water supply with the output of each methanation reactor being conveyed to a next methanation reactor, without cooling said output of each methanation reactor before combining said output with said cooling liquid, and to carry the mixture to such next methanation reactor.
An apparatus comprising:
- a methanation assembly for use with a water supply and a gas supply containing gas to be methanated, said methanation assembly comprising:
- a reactor assembly including a plurality of methanation reactors each for methanating gas input to the assembly;
- and a gas delivery and cooling assembly adapted to deliver gas from said gas supply to each of said methanation reactors and to combine a cooling liquid comprising water from said water supply with the output of each methanation reactor being conveyed to a next methanation reactor without cooling said output from each methanation reactor before combining said output with said cooling liquid, and to carry the mixture to such next methanation reactor;
- and a fuel cell system for receiving the output of said methanation assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.