Patent ID: 8080232

Claim:
A process for recovering CO 2 from desulfurized natural gas or petroleum gas liberated from C 2+ components, said process comprising preheating the natural gas or petroleum gas to a temperature of 45 to 75° C., autothermally reforming the natural gas or petroleum gas by partial oxidation in a first reaction stage by adding gas containing at least 75 vol-% O 2 at a temperature of 900 to 1200° C. and a pressure of 40 to 100 bar abs over a fixed bed of a cracking catalyst to obtain a raw synthesis gas, said raw synthesis gas comprising 55 to 75 vol-% H 2 , 15 to 30 vol-% CO and 5 to 30 vol-% CO 2 with a volume ratio of H 2 :CO of 1.6 to 4, converting the CO contained in the raw synthesis gas to H 2 and CO 2 over at least one fixed-bed catalyst in a second reaction stage, wherein the raw synthesis gas has a temperature of 75 to 110° C. and a pressure of 75 to 50 bar abs , washing out the CO 2 from the synthesis gas in at least one washing stage at a pressure of 15 to 100 bar abs with methanol having a temperature of +10 to −80° C., and recovering absorbed CO 2 by expanding the cold methanol to almost atmospheric pressure, and recovering H 2 , wherein CO, CH 4 and Ar are left in the synthesis gas upon removal of CO 2 , wherein the CO 2 recovered is transferred into the supercritical condition and the CO, CH4 and Ar-containing gas is recirculated to the autothermal reformer as fuel gas, the supercritical CO 2 being used for solvent flooding of partially deoiled petroleum deposits, subterranean storage, or oxo synthesis.