DEVICE FOR HYDROGEN GENERATION Russian patent published in 1999 - IPC

FIELD: devices for conversion of hydrocarbon raw materials, applicable in reconstruction of acting installations for production of industrial hydrogen with arrangement of part of production equipment in rooms classified as explosion-hazardous. SUBSTANCE: the device has a hydrocarbon raw material and hydrogen feed line, heat exchange, desulfurization apparatus, saturator, heat exchanger for heating of steam- gas mixture, methane converter, heat exchangers for cooling the converted gas, carbon oxide converter, heat exchanger and compressor, adsorber for gas cleaning of carbon dioxide, and an adsorption cleaning unit for emission of pure hydrogen, the unit has two parallel lines, each including three series-connected adsorbers located in a common housing intended for depressurization of one or several adsorbers or line of adsorbers, in each adsorber the height-to-diameter ratio is more than 8. EFFECT: enhanced degree of output of final product. 2 cl, 1 dwg