Appeal No. 2003-0217
Application No. 09/284,076
process plant having a refining unit with at least one reformer.
Further details of this appealed subject matter are recited in
representative claims 10, 11, and 15 reproduced below:
10. A method for operating a process plant
including a refining unit having at least one
reformer, for a heat treatment of gas, and a power
generator comprising:
generating power with a gas turbine;
supplying oxygen-containing exhaust gas from the
gas turbine to a combustion chamber of the reformer
through a channel, the channel consisting essentially
of a conduit without a heater or a fan; and
controlling operation of the gas turbine in order
to supply exhaust gas to the reformer combustion
chamber at an overpressure of approximately 0.5 bar
and at a temperature of approximately 350 to 450
degrees C.
11. A method for operating a process plant
including a refining unit having at least one
reformer, for a heat treatment of gas, and a power
generator comprising:
generating power with a gas turbine;
supplying exhaust gas from the gas turbine to a
combustion chamber of the reformer to serve as
combustion gas, the combustion gas consisting
essentially of the turbine exhaust gas; and
controlling operation of the gas turbine in order
to cause exhaust gas to advance from the gas turbine
to the combustion chamber at an exhaust gas
overpressure of approximately 0.5 bar and at an
exhaust gas temperature of approximately 350 to 450
degrees C, which exhaust gas overpressure corresponds
to the overpressure requirement of the combustion
chamber.
15. Apparatus for a process plant having a
refining unit with at east one reformer, for a heat
treatment of gas, and a power generator comprising:
a gas turbine connected to a power generator;
a combustion chamber of at least one reformer;
and
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