Creative idea: Reusing the flue gas from catalytic cracking regenerators (containing CO) in water-gas shift reaction?
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Just having some fun ideas – I’d like to discuss this with the forum members: The flue gas from the regenerator in catalytic cracking (where coking on the catalyst is burned off using air) contains a certain amount of CO. Is it possible to use water-gas shift reaction (CO + H2O = CO2 + H2) to produce hydrogen from this gas? How should the technical and economic aspects be considered in such a design? The flue gas from current catalytic cracking regenerators should be fed into a carbon monoxide boiler to burn and recover energy. I’ve already written to all the forum members here~ This question was posted in the “Catalytic Cracking, Coking, and Reforming” section, but it didn’t receive much attention, so I plan to post it again in the Process section. If the moderator thinks the content is repetitive, please delete the previous post. Thank you, moderator~
It’s a matter of comparing investment and returns; obviously, it’s necessary to know what level of processing capacity is required for the project to be feasible
What are the gas composition, operating temperature, and operating pressure? How generous is the capacity?
Difficulty of achieving process conditions, analysis of economic benefits