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Hydrogen production alternatives in an IGCC plant. S.H. Kwon et al. Hydrocarbon Processing, April 1999, 78(4), 73--76.

Integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) units are described for converting refinery bottoms into useful products such as synthesis gas, hydrogen, electricity, and commodity chemicals. Application of IGCC in a Korean refinery processing 870 000 brl/day is described. The plant operations are described and illustrated. Processing options for hydrogen recovery are pressure swing adsorption, membrane separation, methanation, and nitrogen wash. Each process is described and optimizing hydrogen production is discussed. In a typical plant operation hydrogen purity is 99.7% and offgas containing CO2 is used for NOx control in gas turbines. Operating procedures that reduce investment costs by $11 million and improve plant efficiency by 2.4% are described. 3 refs.

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Journal title: Hydrocarbon Processing

Subjects: Chemical sciences, Environmental protection, Banking, finance and investment, Economics, business and commerce, Plant and Machine Operations, Electricity from fuel combustion, Combined heat and power generation, Refining, Heat distribution, Chemical and petrochemical, Electricity, Hydrogen, Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle