1. An oxygen transport membrane based power generation system comprising:
an oxygen transport membrane based combined reforming subsystem configured to produce a hydrogen-rich, high pressure synthesis gas stream from a hydrocarbon containing feed stream and steam; and
an oxygen transport membrane based power cycle subsystem comprising an oxygen transport membrane based boiler reactor configured to produce steam, electric power, and a carbon dioxide containing effluent by combusting the hydrogen-rich, high pressure synthesis gas stream at a pressure at least two times that of ambient pressure in the oxygen transport membrane based boiler reactor.
2. The oxygen transport membrane based power generation system of claim 1 additionally comprising a first expansion stage for the generation of electric power, wherein said expansion stage is configured to expand the hydrogen-rich, high pressure synthesis gas stream to an intermediate pressure prior to introducing said intermediate pressure, hydrogen-rich synthesis gas into the oxygen transport membrane based boiler reactor to combust said intermediate pressure, hydrogen-rich synthesis gas to generate or heat steam from a boiler feed stream passing through thermally coupled adjacent steam tubes within the oxygen transport membrane based boiler reactor.
3. The oxygen transport membrane based power generation system of claim 1 additionally comprising a second expansion stage for the generation of electric power, wherein said expansion stage comprises a gas turbo expander configured to expand the carbon dioxide containing effluent exiting the oxygen transport membrane based boiler reactor.
4. The oxygen transport membrane based power generation system of claim 1 wherein said boiler reactor is configured to combust the high pressure, hydrogen-rich synthesis gas by reaction with oxygen permeating across the oxygen transport membrane elements within the oxygen transport membrane boiler reactor to form an effluent having a heating value less than 100 Btuscf.
5. The oxygen transport membrane power generation system of claim 1 wherein said boiler reactor is configured to combust the high pressure, hydrogen-rich synthesis gas by reactions with oxygen permeating across the oxygen transport membrane elements within the oxygen transport membrane boiler reactor to form an effluent containing less than about 10% hydrogen.
6. The oxygen transport membrane power generation system of claim 1 further comprising a coal gasification subsystem configured to produce a coal-derived, high pressure synthesis gas stream from a source of coal, steam and oxygen produced from cryogenic distillation of air.
7. The oxygen transport membrane power generation system of claim 6 configured to heat the coal-derived, high pressure synthesis gas stream in the oxygen transport membrane based synthesis gas subsystem prior to introduction in the oxygen transport membrane boiler reactor, or first heat and chemically react methane and other hydrocarbons present in the coal-derived, high pressure synthesis gas in the oxygen transport membrane based synthesis gas subsystem prior to introduction in the oxygen transport membrane boiler reactor.
8. The oxygen transport membrane power generation system of claim 1 or claim 6 configured to provide a synthesis feed stream to a catalytic liquid fuel or chemical production subsystem wherein the synthesis gas feed stream is derived from coal-derived, high pressure synthesis gas stream produced in the coal gasification subsystem or hydrogen-rich, high pressure synthesis gas stream produced in the oxygen transport membrane based synthesis gas subsystem, or combinations thereof.
9. A hydrid oxygen transport membrane based power generation system comprising:
a coal gasification subsystem configured to produce a coal-derived, high pressure synthesis gas stream from a source of coal, steam and oxygen produced from cryogenic distillation of air;
an oxygen transport membrane based reforming subsystem configured to produce a reformed hydrogen-rich, high pressure synthesis gas stream from a hydrocarbon containing feed stream and steam;
an oxygen transport membrane based power cycle subsystem comprising an oxygen transport membrane based boiler reactor configured to produce steam, electric power, and a carbon dioxide containing effluent by combusting a first synthesis gas feed stream at a pressure at least two times that of ambient pressure in the oxygen transport membrane based boiler reactor;
wherein said first synthesis gas feed stream comprises the coal-derived, high pressure synthesis gas stream, or the reformed hydrogen-rich high pressure synthesis gas stream or a combination of both the coal-derived, high pressure synthesis gas stream and the reformed hydrogen-rich high pressure synthesis gas stream.
10. The hybrid system of claim 9 configured to provide a second synthesis gas feed stream to produce a fuel product or liquid product or hydrogen wherein the second synthesis gas stream comprises a portion of the coal-derived, high pressure synthesis gas stream, or a portion of the reformed hydrogen-rich, high pressure synthesis gas stream or a combinations of both the coal-derived, high pressure synthesis gas stream and the reformed hydrogen-rich high pressure synthesis gas stream.
11. A carbon capture enabled oxygen transport membrane based power generation system comprising:
an oxygen transport membrane based synthesis gas subsystem configured to treat a methane containing feed stream to form a hydrogen-rich effluent stream wherein the oxygen transport membrane based synthesis gas subsystem further comprises
an oxygen transport membrane reforming reactor configured to react the methane containing feed stream with oxygen provided across the membrane from an oxygen containing feed stream and steam to form the hydrogen-rich effluent stream;
a gas conditioning subsystem configured to treat the hydrogen-rich effluent stream to produce a hydrogen or a hydrogen-rich fuel gas and a carbon dioxide rich effluent stream; and
an integrated power generation subsystem comprising an air-blown gas turbine configured to be fueled by the hydrogen-rich fuel gas to generate electricity and a gas turbine exhaust stream at elevated temperature; a heat recovery steam generator configured to raise steam by recovering heat from the gas turbine exhaust stream; and a steam turbine configured to generate electricity utilizing steam generated in the heat recovery steam generator.
12. The carbon capture enabled oxygen transport membrane based power generation system of claim 11, wherein said oxygen transport membrane based synthesis gas subsystem is configured to convert greater than about 90% of the methane in the feed stream to reaction products comprising hydrogen, carbon-monoxide, carbon-dioxide, and steam.
13. The carbon capture enabled oxygen transport membrane based power generation system of claim 10 wherein the oxygen transport membrane synthesis gas subsystem is configured to convert greater than 95% of methane in the methane containing feed stream to the reaction products comprising hydrogen, carbon-monoxide, carbon-dioxide, and steam.
14. The carbon capture enabled oxygen transport membrane based power generation system of claim 11 wherein said oxygen transport membrane based synthesis gas subsystem comprises an oxygen transport membrane based reactor comprising (i) a plurality of tubular ceramic oxygen transport membranes configured to transport oxygen ions from an oxygen containing stream present at the outside surface of the tubular ceramic oxygen transport membranes to the interior surface or permeate side of the tubular ceramic oxygen transport membranes; and (ii) a plurality of catalyst containing reformer tubes disposed adjacent or juxtaposed relationship with the ceramic oxygen transport membrane tubes and configured to produce synthesis gas from the methane containing feed stream in the presence of a reforming catalyst and heat produced from the tubular ceramic oxygen transport membranes, wherein at least one of said tubular oxygen transport membranes is configured to further reform any hydrocarbon gas in the reformed synthesis gas stream and produce a synthesis gas product stream.
15. The carbon capture enabled oxygen transport membrane based power generation system of claim 14 wherein said at least one tubular oxygen transport membrane configured to further reform any hydrocarbon gas in the reformed synthesis gas stream contains one or more reforming catalysts.
16. The carbon capture enabled oxygen transport membrane based power generation system of claim 11 further comprising a coal gasification subsystem configured to produce a coal-derived synthesis gas stream from a source of coal, steam and a first oxygen stream, wherein the first oxygen stream is provided from a source that separates oxygen from air at cryogenic temperature, and wherein the coal-derived synthesis gas stream input into the oxygen transport membrane based synthesis gas subsystem contains at least 5.0 volume % hydrocarbons and the hydrogen-rich effluent stream contains less than about 2.0 volume % hydrocarbons.
17. The carbon capture enabled oxygen transport membrane based power generation system of claim 11 wherein a nitrogen rich stream is introduced to the hydrogen or hydrogen-rich fuel gas exiting the gas conditioning subsystem as a diluent, prior to introducing said fuel gas to the gas turbine.
18. The carbon capture enabled oxygen transport membrane based power generation system of claim 11 wherein said oxygen transport membrane based synthesis gas subsystem comprises at least one duct burner, wherein a portion of the hydrogen or hydrogen-rich fuel gas exiting the gas conditioning subsystem is fed to said at least one duct burner for combustion to produce supplemental heat in order to preheat the oxygen containing feed stream.
19. The carbon capture enabled oxygen transport membrane based power generation system of claim 16 wherein said oxygen transport membrane based synthesis gas subsystem is configured to convert greater than about 90% of the methane in the coal-derived synthesis gas to reaction products comprising hydrogen, carbon-monoxide, carbon-dioxide, and steam.
20. The carbon capture enabled oxygen transport membrane based power generation system of any one of claim 12, 13 or 19 wherein said oxygen transport membrane based synthesis gas subsystem is configured to enable greater than about 90% of the carbon in said feed stream to be captured in a gas conditioning system.
21. The carbon capture enabled oxygen transport membrane based power generation system of claim 11 wherein said carbon dioxide rich effluent stream is directed to a carbon dioxide purification subsystem configured to purify said carbon dioxide rich effluent stream and produce a purified carbon dioxide rich stream suitable for storage, sequestration, processing andor direct use.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A system for presenting and distributing information related to a medication of a patient comprising a terminal device communicating with a wireless communication system, and a medicament device including a medicament containing means arranged to hold a medicament; a dispensing mechanism arranged for dispensing medicament from the medicament containing means; means for obtaining information related to the medication of the patient; and a communication device for wireless communication to enable transmission of data related to said information from the medicament device to a terminal device, wherein said terminal device comprises means for receiving said data from said communication device and means for providing the user with a notification based on said information, and which device is arranged to present information related to the medication of the patient to a user.
2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal device is arranged to present information obtained from the medicament device by said means for obtaining information related to the medication and transferred to the terminal device from the medicament device via the communication device.
3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the means for providing the user with a notification is selected from the group consisting of means for providing audible signals, visualizing means, vibration means, and light means.
4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the communication device is arranged for two-way transfer of data between the terminal device and the medicament device and the terminal device comprises means for transmitting data from the terminal device to the communication device.
5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal device is connected to a network computer system via said wireless communication system, thereby enabling a transfer of information related to the medication of the patient between the network computer system and the terminal device.
6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the means for obtaining information related to the dispensing is arranged to monitor the dispensing of medicament and is connected to the communication device to transfer data related to dispensing events.
7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the medicament device comprises a memory for storage of data related to the medication.
8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal device is a cellular phone.
9. The system according to claim 1, wherein the data is communicable between the communication device and the terminal device in encrypted form.
10. The system according to claim 1, wherein the communication device employs radiofrequency or optical signals.
11. The system according to claim 1, wherein the communication device communicates with the terminal device using spread spectrum radiofrequency signals.
12. The system according to claim 1, wherein the medicament device is arranged to transfer data related to the medication of a patient to at least two terminal devices.
13. The system according to claim 1, wherein said means for receiving data is arranged to receive information from at least two communication devices.
14. A method of presenting information related to a medication of a patient in a system comprising a terminal device communicating with a wireless communication system, and a medicament device including a medicament containing means arranged to hold a medicament; a dispensing mechanism arranged for dispensing medicament from the medicament containing means; means for obtaining information related to the medication of the patient; and a communication device for wireless communication to enable transfer of data related to said information from the medicament device to a terminal device, the method comprising the step of utilizing the terminal device to present information related to the medication of the patient to a user; and notifying the user of an event related to the medication using the terminal device.
15. The method according to claim 14, further comprising the steps of obtaining information from the medicament device by said means for obtaining information related to the medication; and transmitting said data to the terminal device from the medicament device via the communication device.
16. The method according to claim 14, wherein the step of notifying the user comprises the step of notifying the user by means of means for notifying selected from the group consisting of means for providing audible signals, visualizing means, vibration means, and light means.
17. The method according to claim 14, wherein the step of notifying the user comprises the step of notifying the user by means of an SMS message, an MMS message, or the like.
18. The method according to claim 14, wherein the communication device is arranged for two-way transfer of data between the terminal device and the medicament device, the method further comprising the step of transmitting data from the terminal device to the communication device.
19. The method according to claim 14, wherein the terminal device is connected to a network computer system via said wireless communication system, the method further comprising the step of transmitting information related to the medication of the patient to the network computer system from the terminal device or from the network computer system to the terminal device.
20. The method according to claim 14, wherein means for obtaining information related to the dispensing is arranged to monitor the dispensing of medicament and is connected to the communication device to transfer data related to the dispensing, the method further comprising the steps of monitoring the dispensing of medicament; and transmitting information related to the dispensing from the terminal device to the communication device.
21. The method according to claim 14, further comprising the step of storing data related to the medication.
22. The method according to claim 14, wherein the data is communicable between the communication device and the terminal device in encrypted form.
23. The method according to claim 14, wherein the communication device employs radiofrequency or optical signals.
24. The method according to claim 14, wherein the communication device communicates with the terminal device using spread spectrum radiofrequency signals.
25. The method according to claim 14, wherein the communication device communicates with at least two terminal devices.
26. The method according to claim 14, wherein the terminal device communicates with a least two communication devices.
27. Use of a terminal device in a system for the delivery of medicament to present information related to the medication of a patient, which system comprises a medicament device including a medicament containing means arranged to hold a medicament; a dispensing mechanism arranged for dispensing medicament from the medicament containing means; means for obtaining information related to the medication of the patient; and a communication device for wireless communication to enable transfer of data from the medicament device to the terminal device, to present information related to the medication of the patient to a user.
28. Computer readable medium comprising instructions for bringing a programmable device to perform the method according to claim 14.