US 12,403,439 B2
Electrically heated reforming reactor for reforming of methane and other hydrocarbons
Terry Marker, Park Ridge, IL (US); Jim Wangerow, Oak Park, IL (US); and Martin Linck, Wilmette, IL (US)
Assigned to GTI Energy, Des Plaines, IL (US)
Filed by Gas Technology Institute, Des Plaines, IL (US)
Filed on Aug. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/402,865.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/107,537, filed on Oct. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0134298 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. B01J 8/02 (2006.01); B01J 19/08 (2006.01); C01B 3/34 (2006.01); C01B 3/38 (2006.01)
CPC B01J 8/0285 (2013.01) [C01B 3/342 (2013.01); B01J 2208/00132 (2013.01); B01J 2208/0015 (2013.01); B01J 2208/00398 (2013.01); B01J 2208/0053 (2013.01); C01B 2203/085 (2013.01); C01B 2203/1241 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A process for producing a synthesis gas product, the process comprising contacting a reformer feed comprising both (i) a hydrocarbon and (ii) H2O and/or CO2 with a catalyst that is disposed in a catalyst bed volume having a plurality of inductive heating elements extending partly or completely therethrough and configured for inductive heating from an alternating magnetic field provided by an energy source,
wherein said plurality of inductive heating elements include individualheating elements or groups of heating elements that are independently controllable for generating different amounts of heat at different radial positions or different axial positions within the catalyst bed volume,
the process further comprising:
causing said individual heating elements or groups of heating elements to generate said different amounts of heat to the catalyst at said different radial positions, or
causing said individual heating elements or groups of heating elements to generate said different amounts of heat to the catalyst at said different axial positions, and
following said contacting, withdrawing the synthesis gas product.