Safe-Parking of a Hydrogen Production Unit

This work considers the problem of handling the failure of purification equipment in a hydrogen production process. In this process, natural gas and superheated steam are fed to a heated chemical reactor termed a reformer to produce hydrogen. The effluent gas is further processed and finally purified in a pressure swing adsorber (PSA). The off-gas out of the PSA is used to provide heat to the reformer. The failure of the PSA results in the loss …