Reformers

SFPC has developed an incremental kinetic model of the reforming process for a variety of feed stocks. Our computer program accurately predicts the relative rates of the competing reactions so the firebox performance and optimum heat input profiles can be predicted with unique precision.

Energy Efficient Designs

Waste heat recovery from flue gas and process gas is an important aspect of SFPC's overall reformer design. Our technology encompasses a complete range of heat recovery concepts and equipment choices. In each case, SFPC will select the type of heat recovery system that best suits the needs of our customers. This may take the form of combustion air preheat systems and / or process gas and waste heat boilers. SFPC is prepared to offer complete overall systems responsibility, based on our customer's requirements, including all interconnecting piping and refractory-line headers.

Global Experience in Steam Reforming

Many processes throughout the petrochemical industry are based on the use of hydrogen produced by the reforming process, where a hydrocarbon-steam mixture is converted into a hydrogen rich gas in the presence of a catalyst at elevated temperatures and pressures. The recent increases in the demand for hydrogen as a synthesis gas in the production of low cost bulk chemicals for the specialty chemical and pharmaceutical industries, and the need to meet clean fuel requirements, have increased the demand for hydrogen production.

SFPC reformer designs are in operation throughout the world on virtually all types of feed stocks, from natural gas through naphtha, and offer conversion to hydrogen; mixtures of hydrogen and carbon monoxide synthesis gas for methanol or oxo-chemical production; mixtures of hydrogen and nitrogen for ammonia production; and production of natural gas substitutes.

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