Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods, processes, and systems for safely and reliably purifying hydrogen from a gas mixture containing hydrogen and oxygen.

A dip-conduit purification apparatus (102) comprises a purification line comprising a plurality of serially coupled purification conduits (124, 126, 128), each of the plurality of purification conduits (124, 126, 128) having an inlet at a first distal end thereof in fluid communication with an outlet at a second distal end thereof.

The present disclosure provides a method for generating higher hydrocarbon(s) from a stream comprising compounds with two or more carbon atoms (C.sub.2+), comprising introducing methane and an oxidant (e.g., O.sub.2) into an oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) reactor. The OCM reactor reacts the methane with the oxidant to generate a first product stream comprising the C.sub.2+ compounds. The first product stream can then be directed to a separations unit that recovers at least a portion of the C.sub.2+ compounds from the first product stream to yield a second product stream comprising the at least the portion of the C.sub.2+ compounds.

Systems and methods are provided for separating oxygen from air using a sorption/desorption cycle that includes a reduced or minimized difference between the maximum and minimum pressures involved in the sorption/desorption cycle. The reduced or minimized difference in pressures can be achieved in part by using valves that can allow for commercial scale flow rates while avoiding large pressure drops for flows passing through the valves. A rotary wheel adsorbent is an example of a system that can allow for a sorption/desorption cycle with reduced and/or minimized pressure drops across valves associated with the process. Stationary adsorbent beds can also be used in combination with commercially available valves that have reduced and/or minimized pressure drops.

Disclosed herein are novel RHO zeolites useful as kinetically selective adsorbents for oxygen and/or nitrogen. The adsorbents can be used in pressure swing adsorption processes for selectively adsorbing oxygen and/or nitrogen from feed streams such as an air stream or crude argon stream. Also disclosed are novel methods of preparing RHO zeolites, including in particular mixed-cation RHO zeolites.

The present invention is to provide a carbon dioxide adsorbent that can collect carbon dioxide generated during a natural gas reforming process at a high concentration and has an excellent adsorption working capacity, a manufacturing method of the same, and a device and process using the same. The carbon dioxide adsorbent according to various examples of the present invention is characterized by including X-type or Y-type zeolite in which at least a part of alkali metal cations or alkali earth metal cations is replaced with H.sup.+ ions.

A carbon dioxide (CO.sub.2) capture system and method for removing CO.sub.2 from an inlet gas including a first fluid stream inlet providing for the flow of a first fluid stream, such as an inlet gas containing CO.sub.2, and a second fluid stream inlet providing for the flow of a second fluid stream, such as steam, an outlet providing for the flow of a CO.sub.2 depleted stream from the CO.sub.2 capture system, an outlet providing for the flow of a CO.sub.2 stream from the CO.sub.2 capture system and a concentrator in fluid communication with the first fluid stream. The system further including a first contactor and a second contactor. Each of the first contactor and the second contactor defining therein a first fluidically-isolated, sorbent-integrated, fluid domain for flow of the first fluid stream and CO.sub.2 adsorption and a second fluidically-isolated fluid domain for flow of the second fluid stream to assist in desorption.

The present disclosure provides a method for generating higher hydrocarbon(s) from a stream comprising compounds with two or more carbon atoms (C.sub.2+), comprising introducing methane and an oxidant (e.g., O.sub.2) into an oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) reactor. The OCM reactor reacts the methane with the oxidant to generate a first product stream comprising the C.sub.2+ compounds. The first product stream can then be directed to a separations unit that recovers at least a portion of the C.sub.2+ compounds from the first product stream to yield a second product stream comprising the at least the portion of the C.sub.2+ compounds.

A carbon dioxide (CO.sub.2) capture system and method for removing CO.sub.2 from an inlet gas including a first fluid stream inlet providing for the flow of a first fluid stream, such as an inlet gas containing CO.sub.2, and a second fluid stream inlet providing for the flow of a second fluid stream, such as steam, an outlet providing for the flow of a CO.sub.2 depleted stream from the CO.sub.2 capture system, an outlet providing for the flow of a CO.sub.2 stream from the CO.sub.2 capture system and a concentrator in fluid communication with the first fluid stream. The system further including a first contactor and a second contactor. Each of the first contactor and the second contactor defining therein a first fluidically-isolated, sorbent-integrated, fluid domain for flow of the first fluid stream and CO.sub.2 adsorption and a second fluidically-isolated fluid domain for flow of the second fluid stream to assist in desorption.

A GIS-type zeolite having a silica/alumina ratio of 3.40 or more, in which, when area intensities of peaks assigned to Q4(3Al), Q4(2AL), Q4(1Al) and Q4(0Al) observed in a .sup.29Si-MAS-NMR spectrum are respectively defined as a, b, c and d, (a+d)/(b+c)?0.192 is satisfied.