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Low Carbon Hydrogen generator

by steam methane reforming

High-purity blue hydrogen with a very low carbon intensity can be
produced from bio-methane or natural gas via the ASCO Filtri
proven HRR-CO technology
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Francesco Romeo, Business Development Director
Fulvio Menini, CEO
ASCO Filtri S.p.A.

ith the ASCO Filtri proven The PSA purification system receives pressurized
HRR-CO technology, a syngas and produces high-purity hydrogen.
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readily available solution The core of this unit is the Fuel Processor producing
delivering high-purity, clean syngas by innovative and very compact reformer tube
Low Carbon (blue) Hydrogen with lower pressure drop and significantly better heat
W with a very low carbon transfer than other existing technologies.
intensity can be produced from bio-methane or natural Indeed, the reforming reactor is composed of multi-
gas by means of a high recuperative steam methane tubular fixed bed reactor tubes, which are closed at
reforming and a carbon capture system based on their top-end forcing the syngas to return and exit via
Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), a novel class of an inner tube, centrally installed within the outer
crystalline micro-structured materials known to have a tube. Heat exchange occurs counter-currently
super-high porosity, the highest known among between the reacting gas and the return gas, with
adsorbents. the return gas that leaves the bottom of the reactor
at a reduced temperature, prior to heat-up the feed
“The steam methane reformer and
the carbon capture system based on
Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs),
a novel class of crystalline micro-
structured materials known to have a
super-high porosity

The High Recuperative Reformer Hydrogen Generator
is designed to deliver high-purity hydrogen (typically
99.95% by vol.) by methane steam reforming combined
with a PSA purification step. The Hydrogen Generator
package consists of a high-energy efficiency steam
reforming Fuel Processor, a Syngas Gas Compressor,
and a Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) hydrogen
purifier.
The Fuel processor produces syngas by methane
reforming.The Syngas Compressor compresses the
syngas from Fuel Processor before delivering it to the
PSA unit.

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