Blue Hydrogen

ProMax 6.0 is a great choice for simulating the various Blue Hydrogen production options which often include Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS).

Relevant reacting systems below can be modeled using ProMax:

• Steam Methane Reforming with Flue Gas CO₂ Capture
• Autothermal Reforming
• Pre-reforming
• Tri-reforming
• Partial Oxidation
• Water Gas Shift
• Gibbs Reactor with active component selection and option of User-Defined Linear Constraints on product component compositions
• Equilibrium Reactor with Approach Temperature Constraints
• Plug Flow with Kinetic Rate configuration including Adsorption Terms.

ProMax is the leading simulator for pre- or post-combustion capture process to remove CO₂ from gas streams:

• Over 40 years of perfecting
• Rigorous Electrolytic Thermodynamics with Ionic Stream and Stage Phase analyses
• Generic Amines and Proprietary Sweetening Solvents from Huntsman, Dow, and Evonik
• Mixed Amines
• Physical Sweetening Solvents such as Methanol, Coastal AGR, and Propylene Carbonate
• Potassium Carbonate
• Ideal Stage or Heat & Mass-Transfer Based Distillation Columns (Trayed, Random, or Structured Packing)
• Regenerator Water Purge for High Temperature Feed Gases
• Loading and Lean/Rich Approach Calculations
• Absorber Temperature Profiles

ProMax developers have mastered the complex phase equilibria between CO₂ and H₂O mixtures at near critical and supercritical conditions. This becomes very important when evaluating captured CO₂ compression, dehydration, transport, and downhole injection. To do these accurately requires accurate prediction of:

• Acid gas water content
• Acid gas density
• Glycol Dehydration thermodynamics
• Solids formation temperatures (Hydrates, Water Ice, and Dry Ice)
• Pipelines

Other simulation tools to improve users’ experience when evaluating these processes are:

• Excel Integration and Scenario Tool for performing multiple case studies
• Project and Flowsheet-Level Recovery Calculator
• Analyses for Calculating Special Properties of Streams and Stage Phases (Combustion, Phase Envelope, Solids Formation, Line Sizing, etc)
• Multiple Flowsheets likely having different thermodynamic packages integrated into a single simulation project
• Equipment rating and sizing utilities (Distillation Column, Heat Exchanger, Separator, Valve, Pipeline, Pump, Compressor, Expander)
• Excellent Units Conversion, Property Display, and Flowsheet Annotation features