HYDROGEN GENERATION

摘要

A hydrogen production apparatus for generating hydrogen comprises a first input (85) for mixing a stream of liquid water (17) with a stream of feed gas (21) to produce a feed gas-water mixture stream (19) and a heating mechanism (66) for heating the feed gas-water mixture stream (19) to a temperature sufficient to evaporate the water in the feed gas-water mixture stream (19) to steam to produce a humidified feed-gas stream (84). A second input (68) is provided for mixing the humidified feed-gas stream (84) with a hydrocarbon fuel (11) to produce a reformer reactant mixture of fuel, oxidant, and steam (69). A steam-methane reforming component (70) reacts the hydrocarbon fuel and the steam in the reformer reactant mixture (69) and produce a hydrogen enriched reformer product gas (72).