Process for recovery of hydrogen from coal gasification products
Project Leaders: Tomasz Wiltowski and Kanchan Mondal
Unit: Mechanical Engineering and Energy Processes
Brief Description:
A process for recovering hydrogen from coal gasification products is provided. The process comprises contacting the coal gasification products with a metal-based Boudouard catalyst to produce a first product stream comprising hydrogen and carbon dioxide; and contacting the first product stream with a solid phase carbon dioxide adsorbent to separate hydrogen from the first product stream.
Patent Status:
Patent pending. U.S. patent application number 20070256359, published November 8, 2007.
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