It is provided a method of converting a carbonaceous material into syngas at a carbon conversion rate of at least 78% comprising gasifying the carbonaceous material in a fluidized bed reactor producing a crude syngas, classifying the crude syngas by particle size and density into a cut sizing device, introducing the classified particle crude syngas into a thermal reformer and reforming the classified crude syngas at a temperature above mineral melting point, producing the syngas.

The present invention relates to a separation and recovery system and method of hydrogen from a coke oven gas (COG) in a steel industry, and more particularly, to a separation and recovery system and method of hydrogen from a coke oven gas (COG) in a steel industry, the system including a pre-processing unit removing impurities including tar, moisture, oil, hydrogen sulfide, and dusts from the coke oven gas (COG), a membrane separation unit including a polymer separation membrane module to generate a hydrogen concentrated gas stream by membrane-separating the coke oven gas (COG) processed in the pre-processing unit, and an adsorption unit separate and recover the hydrogen by allowing the hydrogen concentrated gas stream to contact an absorbent.

A plant and process for producing a hydrogen rich gas and improved carbon capture are provided, said process comprising the steps of: reforming a hydrocarbon feed by optional prereforming, autothermal reforming (ATR), yet no primary reforming, thereby obtaining a synthesis gas; shifting said synthesis gas in a shift section including a high temperature shift step; removal of CO.sub.2 upstream hydrogen purification unit, thereby producing a hydrogen rich stream and an off-gas stream, and where at least part of the off-gas stream is recycled to the process, thus to the ATR and optional prereforming, and/or to the shift section.

The device (100) for hybrid production of synthetic dihydrogen and/or synthetic methane comprises: an inlet (105) for a synthesis gas stream preferably comprising at least CO and H.sub.2, a catalytic conversion reactor (110), the following alternative configurations: a first configuration in which the operating conditions of the reactor promote a Sabatier reaction, so as to produce an outlet gas comprising mainly methane, or a second configuration in which the operating conditions of the reactor promote a water gas shift reaction, so as to produce an outlet gas comprising mainly dihydrogen; an outlet (115) for synthetic dihydrogen and/or synthetic methane and a control system (120) comprising a means (121) for selecting a configuration for operating the reactor and a control means (122) according to the selected configuration, the reactor being configured to operate according to a command.

Provided are a process and a system for treating both a high-pressure (HP) and a low-pressure (LP) acid gas-containing gas streams. The system includes a HP absorber unit, a flash drum coupled downstream of the HP absorber unit, and a LP absorber unit coupled downstream of the flash drum. The process includes introducing a HP rich amine solution from a HP absorber unit into a flash drum, operating the flash drum such that a flashed sour gas and a flash drum rich amine solution are produced, and introducing the flashed sour gas and the LP acid gas-containing gas stream into a LP absorber unit.

A process for producing a gas stream comprising carbon monoxide comprising the steps of (a) feeding a gas mixture comprising carbon dioxide and hydrogen to a burner and combusting it with a sub-stoichiometric amount of an oxygen gas stream to form a combusted gas mixture comprising carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, hydrogen and steam, (b) passing the combusted gas mixture through a bed of reverse water-gas shift catalyst to form a crude product gas mixture containing carbon monoxide, steam, hydrogen and carbon dioxide, (c) cooling the crude product gas mixture to below the dew point and recovering a condensate to form a dewatered product gas, (d) removing carbon dioxide from the dewatered product gas in a carbon dioxide removal unit to form the gas stream comprising carbon monoxide, and (e) combining carbon dioxide recovered by the carbon dioxide removal unit with the gas mixture comprising hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

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.

The system includes a methane reformer, a combined cycle power generator, and a switch. The reformer is configured to react methane with steam. The combined cycle power generator includes a steam turbine, a gas turbine, a power generator, and a water boiler. The steam turbine is configured to rotate in response to receiving steam. The gas turbine is configured to rotate in response to receiving a mixture of fuel and air. The power generator is configured to convert rotational energy from the steam turbine and the gas turbine into electricity. In a first position, the switch is configured to direct exhaust from the gas turbine to the reformer, thereby providing heat to the reformer. In a second position, the switch is configured to direct exhaust from the gas turbine to the water boiler, thereby providing heat to the water boiler to generate steam.

The present invention relates to a process for producing hydrogen and for separating carbon dioxide from synthesis gas using a physical absorption medium. The process comprises the steps where the synthesis gas and the absorption medium are cooled; carbon dioxide is removed from the cooled synthesis gas via the cooled absorption medium in a physical absorption step at elevated pressure; laden absorption medium is treated in a plurality of flash stages, wherein co-absorbed carbon monoxide, hydrogen and carbon dioxide are separately removed from the laden absorption medium; hydrogen is separated from synthesis gas freed of carbon dioxide in a physical separation step, wherein hydrogen as product gas and an offgas comprising hydrogen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide are obtained; product gas hydrogen and carbon dioxide are discharged from the process. The invention further relates to a plant for performing the process.

A combined power generation system includes a gas turbine, a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) generating steam using combustion gas from the gas turbine, a vaporizer vaporizing liquefied ammonia, an ammonia decomposer section decomposing ammonia with the combustion gas, a first exhaust gas line through which exhaust gas from the gas turbine is transferred to the HRSG, a steam turbine generating a rotational force with the steam from the HRSG, a decomposed gas supply line through which decomposed gases generated in the ammonia decomposer section are supplied to a combustor, and a cold heat transfer line absorbing cold heat of the liquefied ammonia and supply the cold heat to the condenser section, and a condenser section condensing the steam from the steam turbine.