Hydrogen technologies to meet refiners' future needs
- Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (United States)
- Kinetics Technology International Corp., San Dimas, CA (United States)
Refiners have some flexibility to adjust the refinery hydrogen balance but it will not be sufficient to accommodate the required large increases in hydrogen consumption. Presently, the majority of hydrogen consumed in refineries is produced as a byproduct from various refinery operations like naphtha catalytic reforming. Refiners looking for alternate hydrogen sources have several options. They include: recovery hydrogen contains in various offgas streams that are sent to the fuel header; expand existing on-purpose hydrogen-producing facilities (units where hydrogen is the primary product rather than a byproduct); install new on-purpose hydrogen capacity; or buy pipeline/on-site hydrogen (produced outside the refinery). Each of these options has alternate technologies that can be used. Selecting the correct technology depends on site-specific conditions coupled with capabilities of the particular technologies being considered. The paper discusses the advantages of these available options.
- OSTI ID:
- 6621062
- Journal Information:
- Hydrocarbon Processing; (United States), Vol. 74:2; ISSN 0018-8190
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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