IGCC PROCESS WITH COMBINED METHANOL SYNTHESIS/WATER GAS SHIFT FOR METHANOL AND ELECTRICAL POWER PRODUCTION

• Main Authors: HSIUNG, THOMAS HSIAO-LING, MOORE, ROBERT BYRON, KLOSEK, JOSEPH, PERKA, ALAN THOMAS
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 05.02.1992
• Edition: 4
• Subjects: ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; AIR INTAKES FOR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS; BLASTING; CHEMISTRY; COMBUSTION ENGINES; CONTROLLING FUEL SUPPLY IN AIR-BREATHING JET-PROPULSION PLANTS; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ENGINES USING SPECIAL WORKING FLUIDS OR CYCLES; GAS-TURBINE PLANTS; HEATING; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS; LIGHTING; MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; METALLURGY; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; STEAM ACCUMULATORS; STEAM ENGINE PLANTS; STEAM ENGINES; WEAPONS

The present invention relates to an improvement to a process for the production of methanol from synthesis gas containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen utilizing a three phase or liquid-phase reaction technology. The improvement to the process is the addition of relatively small amounts of water to the liquid-phase reactor thereby allowing for the use of a CO-rich synthesis gas for the production of methanol by effectuating in the same reactor the methanol synthesis and water-gas shift reactions.