Patent ID: 6143202
Filing Date: 2000-11-07
Classification: C01B

Abstract:
Process for the soot free steam reforming of a hydrocarbon feedstock by autothermally reforming the feedstock in an autothermal reactor at a given temperature and a given steam to carbon ratio in the feedstock and operating at a pressure in the reactor above a critical value, where no soot is present in the steam reformed feedstock, said process further comprising the partial oxidation of the feedstock by burning at a substochiometric oxygen concentration;which the operation pressure is adjusted to a value of p.gtoreq.13.4-0.00753 T.sub.adiabatic -1.74 S/C, wherep is the pressure in Mpa,T is the adiabatic as temperature in K of the reformed feedstock, andS/C is the molar steam-to-carbon ratio the feedstock.