Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hydrogen production apparatus and hydrogen production method
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Application No.: US15052566Application Date: 2016-02-24
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Publication No.: US09776862B2Publication Date: 2017-10-03
- Inventor: Akitoshi Fujisawa , Akira Matsuoka , Hiroo Hangai , Koji Noishiki
- Applicant: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Hyogo
- Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hyogo
- Agency: Studebaker & Brackett PC
- Priority: JP2015-036902 20150226
- Main IPC: B01J7/00
- IPC: B01J7/00 ; C01B3/48 ; B01D53/14 ; C01B3/38 ; B01D53/18 ; B01J19/24 ; C01B3/50

Abstract:
Provided is a hydrogen production apparatus enabling reduction of energy needed for separation and collection of CO2 in the hydrogen production. The hydrogen production apparatus includes a reformer, a heating device heating the reformer, a transformer, a hydrogen separation device separating and taking out hydrogen from transformed gas, a CO2 separation device separating and taking out CO2 from off-gas from which hydrogen was separated by the hydrogen separation device, a heat collecting device collecting heat of the reformed gas, heat of the transformed gas, and waste heat from the heating device, and a heat medium supply device supplying the heat medium having absorbed heat collected by the heat collecting device to the CO2 separation device. The absorption liquid having absorbed CO2 in off-gas is heated by the heat medium heated with collected heat, thereby releasing CO2.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160251217A1 HYDROGEN PRODUCTION APPARATUS AND HYDROGEN PRODUCTION METHOD Public/Granted day:2016-09-01
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