Method of steam reforming methanol to hydrogen

Patent · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:867477

Beshty, Bahjat S ^[1]

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1. Lower Makefield, PA

The production of hydrogen by the catalyzed steam reforming of methanol is accomplished using a reformer of greatly reduced size and cost wherein a mixture of water and methanol is superheated to the gaseous state at temperatures of about 800.degree. to about 1,100.degree. F. and then fed to a reformer in direct contact with the catalyst bed contained therein, whereby the heat for the endothermic steam reforming reaction is derived directly from the superheated steam/methanol mixture.

• Assignee: Engelhard Corporation (Edison, NJ)
• Patent Number(s): US 4946667
• OSTI ID: 867477
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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