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Hydrogen Supply Options and Issues
Author(s) -
Kuberka Kathleen A.,
Weise Mark K.,
Messina Celeste A.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf03022748
Subject(s) - natural gas , hydrogen production , industrial gas , pressure swing adsorption , hydrogen , data scrubbing , steam reforming , process engineering , waste management , natural gas processing , environmental science , hydrogen economy , engineering , chemistry , gas turbines , mechanical engineering , organic chemistry
Methods of hydrogen gas production for hydrogenation are discussed: steam reforming of natural gas, electrolysis, by‐product clean‐up by PSA (pressure swing absorption) or scrubbing, and others. Hydrogen can be obtained from a customer‐owned hydrogen plant or as a merchant product supplied by an industrial gas supplier. The merchant product can be delivered in trailers as gas, liquid‐high (up to 2,200 psig), low pressure (up to 130 psig), or supplied over the fence from a pipeline or hydrogen generating plant. Several factors must be considered in selecting an optimum supply, including availability and cost of capital and of operating labor, use patterns, average demand, instantaneous demand, use pressure, growth projections, and purity requirements. Recent field test data have shown that increased hydrogen purity can improve the hydrogenation processes.