Johnson Matthey has vast experience in direct reforming of naphtha feedstocks in SMR’s for hydrogen production. The naphtha needs to be vaporized to be processed in the SMR based hydrogen plant. It takes less heat load to reform a mole of naphtha as compared to natural gas, but more COx will be produced, and the carbon formation potential is higher in naphtha which can have an average carbon content of C6 and a tail to C20.
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