Generating methanol using ultrapure, high pressure hydrogen

A method for producing methanol, comprising;

• producing oxygen in an air separation plant with air compressors driven by a gas turbine;
• heating a hydrocarbon feed stream using exhaust from the gas turbine;
• exothermically reacting a first portion of the heated hydrocarbon feed stream with at least one of steam or an oxidant gas comprising molecular oxygen to produce an exothermically generated syngas product;
• endothermically reforming a second portion of the hydrocarbon feed stream with steam over a catalyst in a heat exchange reformer to produce an endothermically-reformed syngas product, wherein at least a portion of heat used in generation of the endothermically-reformed syngas product is obtained by recovering heat from the exothermically-generated syngas product and the endothermically reformed syngas product;
• combining the exothermically generated syngas product and the endothermically-reformed syngas product to produce a combined syngas stream;
• producing steam in a waste heat boiler by cooling the combined syngas stream, where the combined syngas stream leaving the waste heat boiler has a pressure from 70 bar to 100 bar;
• separating water from the cooled combined syngas to produce a methanol plant feed at substantially reaction loop pressure and having less than about 2% CH4 and less than about 0.2% H2O;
• after separating water, passing the cooled combined syngas to a methanol plant;
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• combining methanol plant combustible effluent with methane fuel to the gas turbine.