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Title: Methanation assembly using multiple reactors

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1176175

A methanation assembly for use with a water supply and a gas supply containing gas to be methanated in which a reactor assembly has a plurality of methanation reactors each for methanating gas input to the assembly and a gas delivery and cooling assembly adapted to deliver gas from the gas supply to each of said methanation reactors and to combine water from the water supply with the output of each methanation reactor being conveyed to a next methanation reactor and carry the mixture to such next methanation reactor.

Research Organization:
FuelCell Energy, Danbury, CT (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
FC21-95MC31262
Assignee:
FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Danbury, CT)
Patent Number(s):
7,247,281
Application Number:
10/818,680
OSTI ID:
1176175
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2004 Apr 06
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English