Gas: heating and illuminating – Processes – Fuel mixtures
Patent
1988-04-07
1990-08-07
Woodard, Joye L.
Gas: heating and illuminating
Processes
Fuel mixtures
518700, 518708, 518711, C07C 3104
Patent
active
049464779
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to an improvement to a process for the production of methanol from synthesis gas containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen utilizing a three phase or liquid-phase reaction technology. The improvement to the process is the addition of relatively small amounts of water to the liquid-phase reactor thereby allowing for the use of a CO-rich synthesis gas for the production of methanol by effectuating in the same reactor the methanol synthesis and water-gas shift reactions. A portion of the unreacted synthesis gas stream from the liquid-phase reactor is separated into a hydrogen-rich component and a carbon monoxide-rich component. The hydrogen-rich component is combined with a portion of the unreacted synthesis gas stream from the liquid-phase reactor to form a gas-phase methanol reactor feed stream for producing methanol, and the carbon monoxide-rich component is combined with the unreacted effluent from the gas-phase methanol reactor to form a feed stream for combustion in a gas turbine.
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Hsiung Thomas H.
Klosek Joseph
Moore Robert B.
Perka Alan T.
Air Products and Chemicals Inc.
Fernbacher John M.
Marsh William F.
Simmons James C.
Woodard Joye L.
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