Patent ID: 8227120

Claim:
A system comprising: a regenerable volatile organic compound absorption apparatus ( 15 ) configured to receive a flow ( 13 ) of gas containing volatile organic compounds and configured to regenerate absorbent material therein by means of a flow ( 92 ) of hot desorption gas provided to a desorption gas inlet ( 41 ) of said apparatus; a burner ( 58 ) with exhaust, said burner configured to burn desorption effluent from a desorption gas outlet ( 20 ) of said apparatus; wherein the improvement comprises: said burner is part of a reformer ( 57 ) configured to reform hydrocarbon fuel ( 55 ) to provide hydrogen-containing reformate gas ( 61 ); heat transfer apparatus ( 90 ) for transferring heat from the exhaust of said burner to said desorption gas, said heat transfer apparatus configured to deliver ( 90 ) heated desorption gas to said inlet; and a fuel cell power plant ( 64 ) having anodes to which at least some of said hydrogen-containing reformate gas is provided ( 48 , 46 , 63 ), wherein said fuel cell power plant ( 64 ) is a phosphoric acid fuel cell power plant.