Patent ID: 11955674
Assignee: CHEVRON PHILLIPS CHEMICAL COMPANY LP
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B  C  Y | IPC B  C  H

Claim 0:
1. A process comprising:
separating a first cracking product stream into a hydrogen-rich methane stream and one or more second cracking product streams;
introducing the hydrogen-rich methane stream or a derivative product stream to an anode chamber of a fuel cell;
introducing an oxygen-containing stream to a cathode chamber of the fuel cell, wherein the fuel cell has an assembly comprising an anode and a cathode that are separated by a separating element; and
converting, at the anode of the fuel cell, methane and hydrogen received from the hydrogen-rich methane stream or from the derivative product stream to carbon dioxide and water to generate electricity,
wherein no nitrogen is present in the anode chamber of the fuel cell.