Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hydrogen production system and method of controlling flow rate of offgas in the system
- Patent Title (中): 制氢系统及排气系统流量控制方法
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Application No.: US12300362Application Date: 2007-05-07
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Publication No.: US08298305B2Publication Date: 2012-10-30
- Inventor: Toshihiko Sumida , Masanori Miyake , Hidenori Minami , Yoshinori Ueda
- Applicant: Toshihiko Sumida , Masanori Miyake , Hidenori Minami , Yoshinori Ueda
- Applicant Address: JP Hyogo
- Assignee: Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hyogo
- Agency: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.
- Priority: JP2006-132720 20060511
- International Application: PCT/JP2007/059464 WO 20070507
- International Announcement: WO2007/132692 WO 20071122
- Main IPC: B01J7/00
- IPC: B01J7/00

Abstract:
A hydrogen manufacturing system for performing offgas flow control includes: a vaporizer (1) for heating a material mixture containing a hydrocarbon material; a reforming reactor (2) for generating hydrogen-containing reformed gas by reforming reactions of the material; a PSA separator (5) for repeating a cycle of adsorption and desorption, where in the adsorption PSA separation is performed with an adsorption tower loaded with an adsorbent to adsorb unnecessary components in the reformed gas and extract hydrogen-enriched gas out of the tower, and in the desorption the offgas containing the unnecessary components from the adsorbent and remaining hydrogen is discharged from the tower; and a buffer tank (6) for holding the offgas before supplying to the vaporizer. The offgas flow supply from the tank (6) to the vaporizer is changed continuously over time when the cycle time is changed according to load change on the separator (5).
Public/Granted literature
- US20090104084A1 HYDROGEN PRODUCTION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING FLOW RATE OF OFFGAS IN THE SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2009-04-23
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