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Furnace with reactor tubes heatable electrically and by means of combustion fuel for steam reforming a feedstock containing hydrocarbon

US9908091B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Linde GmbH · DE

Inventors

Wolfgang Vogel · Glastonbury, US
Rachid Mabrouk · Malmö, SE
Christoph Stiller · Bad Salzdetfurth, DE
Stefan Hübner · Birkenfeld, DE
Harald Ranke · Wolfratshausen, DE
Andreas Seliger · Birkenfeld, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 3, 2016
Grant date	Mar 6, 2018
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 27, 2036

Classification

Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
CPC primaryC01B2203/0866
WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A furnace for steam reforming a feed stream containing hydrocarbon, preferably methane, having: a combustion chamber, a plurality of reactor tubes arranged in the combustion chamber for accommodating a catalyst and for passing the feed stream through the reactor tubes, and at least one burner which is configured to burn a combustion fuel in the combustion chamber to heat the reactor tubes. In addition at least one voltage source is provided which is connected to the plurality of reactor tubes in such a manner that in each case an electric current which heats the reactor tubes to heat the feedstock is generable in the reactor tubes.

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