Potential Cracking in Hydrogen Plant with Light Feedstocks (Part II)

Guotai Zhang, Sanjeev Sekhri

Process Department, Technip Stone & Webster Process, Technology Inc., Claremont, USA.

DOI: 10.4236/wjet.2015.33C003                

Abstract

This paper presents the analysis of potential thermal cracking of light feedstocks in the SMR. Two different feedstocks, natural gas and light hydrocarbon (HC) feedstock at two different mixed feed inlet temperatures, are selected to study the HC thermal cracking. Effect of Crossover Piping Volume on feed thermal cracking is also discussed.

Keywords

Steam-Methane Reformer (SMR), Temperature Index (TI), Mixed Feed Preheater (MFPH), Crossover Piping Volume (CPV), Hydrocarbon (HC) and Thermal Cracking Kinetics

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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