Overall permreactor-separator process designs and effective permreactor designs
with increased mass and heat transfer, reactant conversion, product yield and optional
recycling for processing methane, hydrocarbons, alcohols, carbon monoxide, natural
gas, acidic natural gas, cool gas, biomass gas, and mixtures of hydrocarbons with
carbon dioxide, based on the reforming reactions of these feedstocks with steam
and carbon dioxide and the dehydrogenation reactions of saturated hydrocarbons.
Final exit streams from these gas phase processors contain pure hydrogen, hydrogen
and carbon monoxide mixture, hydrogen and carbon dioxide mixture, and can be used
as a direct feed in molten carbonate, solid oxide, proton exchange membrane, alkaline,
phosphoric acid and other types of hydrogen driven fuel cells. Same final exit
processed streams can be alternatively used for direct chemical synthesis such
as methanol, for hydrogenations and hydrogen based reduction reactions such as
those of unsaturated hydrocarbons to paraffins, and as feed in power generation
systems such as gas turbines and gas engines.
