A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING AN AMMONIA SYNTHESIS GAS FROM A METHANE-CONTAINING FEEDSTOCK GAS'

摘要

The present invention as described in Figure 2 is an improved process for the production of ammonia synthesis gas by steam reforming a desulfurized high-hydrogen content feedstock gas 122 by admixing steam 124 therewith and partially reforming the resulting gas mixture in a tubular heat exchanger 130 containing primary reforming catalyst while maintaining said gaseous mixture in indirect heat exchange with a secondary reformer effluent gas 134; recovering a partially reformed gas product 136 from the tubular heat exhanger and secondarily reforming this gas in a secondary reformer 140 in the presence of air, which is introduced to the secondary reformer in an amount sufficient to provide a hydrogen: nitrogen molar ratio of about 3:1 in the ammonia synthesis gas; and treating the reformed gas 134 in a shift conversion zone (160 - 200) to convert CO catalytically with steam to CO2 and hydrogen to form a gas which can be treated for removing CO and CO2 by absorption and methanation to produce the ammonia synthesis gas.