A process and plant for producing a high purity CO.sub.2 product, comprising: providing a CO.sub.2-rich stream containing hydrocarbons, hydrogen and/or CO, combining it with a stream rich in methane (CH.sub.4), and mixing it with oxygen, thereby forming a CO.sub.2/O.sub.2- mixture; subjecting the CO.sub.2/O.sub.2- mixture to a catalytic oxidation step, thereby producing a purified stream having a higher CO.sub.2 and/or H.sub.2O concentration; removing H.sub.2O from said purified stream, for producing said high purity CO.sub.2 product stream. The CO.sub.2-rich stream is for instance derived from the CO.sub.2-removal section of a plant for producing hydrogen.

Systems and methods to provide low carbon intensity (CI) transportation fuels through one or more targeted reductions of carbon emissions based upon an analysis of carbon emissions associated with a combination of various options for feedstock procurement, feedstock refining, processing, or transformation, and fuel product distribution pathways to end users. Such options are selected to maintain the total CI (carbon emissions per unit energy) of the transportation fuel below a pre-selected threshold that defines an upper limit of CI for the transportation fuel.

Systems and methods to provide low carbon intensity (CI) transportation fuels through one or more targeted reductions of carbon emissions based upon an analysis of carbon emissions associated with a combination of various options for feedstock procurement, feedstock refining, processing, or transformation, and fuel product distribution pathways to end users. Such options are selected to maintain the total CI (carbon emissions per unit energy) of the transportation fuel below a pre-selected threshold that defines an upper limit of CI for the transportation fuel.

A system optionally including a carbon oxide reactor. A method for carbon oxide reactor control, optionally including selecting carbon oxide reactor aspects based on a desired output composition, running a carbon oxide reactor under controlled process conditions to produce a desired output composition, and/or altering the process conditions to alter the output composition.

Methods and systems for gas separation of syngas applying differences in water solubilities of syngas components, the method including producing a product gas comprising hydrogen and carbon dioxide from a hydrocarbon fuel source; separating hydrogen from the product gas to create a hydrogen product stream and a byproduct stream by solubilizing components in water that are more soluble in water than hydrogen; injecting the byproduct stream into a reservoir containing mafic rock; and allowing components of the byproduct stream to react in situ with components of the mafic rock to precipitate and store components of the byproduct stream in the reservoir.

Processes for treating highly viscous hydrocarbons, such as bitumen from oil sands or petroleum residues, with hydrogen-donor solvents are described. The hydrogen-donor solvent is prepared. A mixture of the hydrocarbon and the hydrogen-donor solvent is heated, and the product is cooled to produce a low viscosity and mildly upgraded hydrocarbon. The hydrogen-donor solvent can be modified to improve its solvent usefulness.

A process and plant for the co-production of methanol and ammonia together with urea production from a hydrocarbon feed without venting to the atmosphere carbon dioxide captured from the methanol or ammonia synthesis gas and without using expensive air separation units and water gas shift. Carbon dioxide is removed from flue gas from reforming section and used to convert partially or fully all ammonia into urea.

A fuel cell system includes at least one of plural electrochemical pump separators to separate carbon dioxide from a fuel exhaust stream or a combination of a gas separator and a fuel exhaust cooler located outside a hotbox.

A system and method for processing unconditioned syngas first removes solids and semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOC), then removes volatile organic compounds (VOC), and then removes at least one sulfur containing compound from the syngas. Additional processing may be performed depending on such factors as the source of syngas being processed, the products, byproducts and intermediate products desired to be formed, captured or recycled and environmental considerations.

An economic and sustainable process is described herein for zeroing the addition of diluent required in heavy oils transportation by pipelines and by rails. The process reduces both heavy oils characteristics such as: (a) viscosity, (b) density, (c) acidic compounds (TAN), (d) sulfur and (e) olefins generated during the thermal treatment in order to meet stablished criteria for transportation. To prevent premature catalyst deactivation and precipitation, the solids materials in the crude heavy oil are removed first through a physical separation unit, and constitutes a fraction called solid fraction (≤30%), while the solids free fraction or de-solidified fraction (≥70%) of the heavy oil undergoes a thermo-catalytic treatment in a second unit under hydrogen pressure. During this step, both heavy oils properties listed above are reduced. Once produced, the olefins are then saturated by the hydrogen (or additive) present during the reaction yielding a stable treated heavy oil.