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Blue hydrogen Process Flowsheets & Simulations

Explore 2 validated, solved Blue hydrogen simulation flowsheets in MaximaLabs — real components: methane, water, co, co2, h2, mdea. Open any one directly in your browser.

Solved via: PENG-ROBINSON.

FEED
Reformer
Cool1
WGS
Cool2
Knockout
Water OUT
Co2cap
Captured CO2
BLUE H2
Blue-H2 / CCS plant, Teesside, United Kingdom

Blue hydrogen: SMR + water-gas-shift + CO2 capture

A low-carbon (blue) hydrogen train: steam-methane reforming converts natural gas + steam to syngas (CH₄ + H₂O <=> CO + 3H2) at 1123 K, a water-gas-shift reactor converts the CO with more steam to extra H₂ + CO₂ (CO + H₂O <=> CO₂ + H₂), the gas is cooled, the process water knocked out, and 96% of the CO₂ is captured as a pure stream for sequestration/EOR (the CCS that makes the hydrogen 'blue'). Both reactors are solved to real chemical equilibrium (partial-pressure basis) rather than a fixed conversion.

10 unit ops • PENG-ROBINSON

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FEED
Reformer
Cool1
WGS
Cool2
Knockout
Water OUT
LEAN
liq
gas
gas
rich
ABS
BLUE H2
RICH Amine
Blue-H2 / CCS plant, Teesside, United Kingdom

Blue hydrogen with rigorous amine capture (multi-thermo)

The blue-hydrogen train done properly: steam-methane reforming and water-gas-shift run on a cubic gas EoS (Peng-Robinson), while the CO₂ capture runs on the rigorous electrolyte amine package (MDEA/piperazine 'enrtl-mdea-pz') — two thermo methods in one flowsheet, via per-node thermo_overrides. This is what legacy tools do with a property-method 'section' and what the plain 'blue-hydrogen-smr-ccs' showcase couldn't (one package per flowsheet forced a component-separator stand-in for the capture). Here the shifted syngas is contacted with a lean MDEA/PZ solvent in an absorber that removes the CO₂ by real reactive equilibrium (H₂/CO/CH₄ pass through as insoluble gases), delivering ~94% H₂ with the CO₂ driven to trace and a rich amine at a realistic ~0.7 mol CO₂/mol amine loading.

11 unit ops • PENG-ROBINSON

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