1. A system comprising:
a source of digital media recordings;
wherein said source of digital media recordings is accessible via a communications network and stores and makes available a plurality of digital media recordings;
a mobile communications device associated with a user, wherein said mobile communications device has an operating system and is for wireless communication and comprises\u2014
a processor,
a display,
a memory, and
an input;
a computing device associated with the user;
an account associated with the user of said mobile communications device and said computing device, wherein said account is accessible to the user using said mobile communications device and is accessible to the user using said computing device, and wherein said account comprises a directory of a plurality of digital media recordings that have been obtained by the user;
wherein said source of digital media recordings processes a request, received from said mobile communications device, to obtain a digital media recording, wherein said request to obtain said digital media recording is input via said mobile communications device by the user of said mobile communications device;
wherein said system causes said requested digital media recording to be transmitted to said mobile communications device;
wherein said requested digital media recording has a corresponding digital file stored in said system;
wherein said system identifies said requested digital media recording that is transmitted to said mobile communications device in said directory of obtained digital media recordings in said account of the user;
wherein said source of digital media recordings receives a selection input by the user using said computing device to transmit to said computing device of the user said digital media recording that was obtained by the user using said mobile communications device and was identified by said system in said account of the user in the directory of digital media recordings obtained by the user; and
wherein, based on said selection to transmit said obtained digital media recording to the computing device of the user, said system accesses said file corresponding to said obtained digital media recording for initially transmitting said obtained digital media recording to said computing device of the user.
2. The system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said system further enables the user to select whether to play in said computing device the obtained digital media recording, that is accessible via said account of the user, as said digital media recording is received in said computing device from said source of digital media recordings, or to download said obtained digital media recording for storage in said computing device of the user.
3. The system as set forth in claim 1, said system further comprising streaming digital radio functionality, wherein said streaming digital radio functionality enables streaming digital music recordings to said mobile communications device, wherein said streaming digital radio functionality further comprises streaming advertisements to said mobile communications device.
4. The system as set forth in claim 1, said system further comprising streaming digital radio functionality, said system further comprising enabling a digital music recording that is streaming to said mobile communications device by way of said streaming digital radio functionality to be purchased from said source of digital media recordings, identified in said account of the user, and accessed via the account of the user by said computing device of the user.
5. The system as set forth in claim 1, said system further comprising a media subscription service that enables the user of the mobile communications device to receive digital media recordings from said source of digital media recordings so long as a periodic subscription fee is paid by the user.
6. The system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said directory of a plurality of digital media recordings that have been obtained by the user comprises a directory of digital media recordings that have been obtained by the user from said source of digital media recordings.
7. The system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said obtained digital media recording comprises a digital music recording.
8. The system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said obtained digital media recording comprises a video recording.
9. The system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said source of digital media recordings stores and makes available for purchase a plurality of digital media recordings and wherein said obtained digital media recording comprises a digital media recording that is purchased by the user from said source.
10. The system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said system receives an electronic request initiated by the user from the user’s computing device to access said account of the user and said system enables access to said account of the user by said computing device of the user.
11. The system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said selection input by the user using said computing device to transmit to said computing device of the user said digital media recording that was obtained by the user using said mobile communications device and was identified by said system in said account of the user in the directory of digital media recordings obtained by the user is received by said source of digital media recordings via said account of the user.
12. The system as set forth in claim 1, said system further comprising a downloadable media player application that is compatible with said operating system of said mobile communications device, wherein said system receives a request from said mobile communications device to download said downloadable media player application, wherein said system causes said requested downloadable media player application to be transmitted to said mobile communications device, wherein said mobile communications device wirelessly receives said media player application, and wherein said received media player application is operable to play said obtained digital media recording.
13. The system as set forth in claim 1, said system further comprising a television that is enabled to receive digital media recordings from said source of digital media recordings.
14. The system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said system enables the user to mix, via said account associated with the user, a number of the plurality of digital media recordings that have been obtained by the user.
15. A method comprising:
providing a source of digital media recordings that is accessible via a communications network and stores and makes available a plurality of digital media recordings;
providing an account to a user having a mobile communications device and a computing device, wherein said account is located remotely from the mobile communications device of the user and the computing device of the user and is accessible to the user using said mobile communications device and is accessible to the user using said computing device, wherein said account comprises a directory of a plurality of digital media recordings that have been obtained by the user from said source of digital media recordings, wherein said mobile communications device has an operating system and wherein said mobile communications device is for wireless communication and comprises a processor, a display, a memory, and an input;
receiving, from the mobile communications device of the user, a request for a digital media recording, wherein said request for said digital media recording is input via said mobile communications device by the user of said mobile communications device and is processed, wherein said requested digital media recording has a corresponding digital file stored in said system;
causing said requested digital media recording to be transmitted to said mobile communications device;
identifying said requested digital media recording in said directory of obtained digital media recordings in said account of the user;
receiving a selection input by the user using the computing device to transmit to the computing device of the user said digital media recording that was requested and obtained by the user using the mobile communications device and was identified by said system in said account of the user in the directory of digital media recordings obtained by the user; and
based on said selection to transmit said obtained digital media recording to the computing device of the user, accessing said file corresponding to said requested digital media recording and causing said requested digital media recording to be initially transmitted to the computing device of the user.
16. The method as set forth in claim 15, said method further comprising providing streaming digital radio functionality for streaming digital music recordings to said mobile communications device.
17. The method as set forth in claim 16, wherein said providing streaming digital radio functionality further comprises streaming advertisements to said mobile communications device.
18. The method as set forth in claim 16, said method further comprising enabling the purchase from said source of digital media recordings of a streaming digital music recording that is streaming via said digital radio functionality to said mobile communications device, further enabling the identification of a purchased streaming digital music recording in said account of the user, and further enabling access to a purchased streaming digital music recording via the account of the user by the computing device of the user.
19. The method as set forth in claim 15, said method further comprising:
receiving an electronic request initiated by the user from the computing device of the user to access said account of the user;
enabling access to said account of the user by the computing device of the user.
20. The method as set forth in claim 15, said method further comprising providing a downloadable media player application that is compatible with said operating system of said mobile communications device, wherein said system processes a request to download said media player application to said mobile communications device, wherein said media player application is operable to play said obtained digital media recording.
21. The method as set forth in claim 15, wherein said operating system of said mobile communications device comprises a first mobile operating system, said method further comprising:
providing a first downloadable digital media player that is compatible with said first mobile operating system;
providing a second downloadable digital media player that is compatible with a second mobile operating system;
receiving a request from a mobile computer having said second mobile operating system; and
in response to said request received from said mobile computer, and using information indicative of the second mobile operating system of the mobile computer, selecting said second downloadable digital media player and causing said second downloadable digital media player to be transmitted to said mobile computer.
22. The method as set forth in claim 15, said method further comprising enabling digital media files of the user to be stored in said account that is provided to the user.
23. The method as set forth in claim 15, said method further comprising providing the mobile communications device.
24. The method as set forth in claim 23, said method further comprising providing the computing device.
25. The method as set forth in claim 15, said method further comprising:
providing a choice to the user to have the requested digital media recording downloaded to the mobile communications device or identified in said account of the user; and
receiving a selection regarding said choice by the user using the mobile communications device.
26. The method as set forth in claim 15, wherein said account is provided to the user prior to said request to obtain said requested digital media recordings, said method further comprising:
providing a choice to the user to have the requested digital media recording downloaded to the mobile communications device or identified in said account of the user; and
determining whether to download the requested digital media recording to the mobile communications device or identify said requested digital media recording in said account of the user based upon a specification regarding said choice made by the user via said previously established account of the user.
27. The method as set forth in claim 15, said method further comprising enabling the user to mix, via said account associated with the user, a number of the plurality of digital media recordings that have been obtained by the user.
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 multi-product plant for the production of ammonia and Fischer-Tropsch hydrocarbons, the plant comprising:
an air separation unit comprising an inlet for air and outlets for oxygen and nitrogen;
a synthesis gas generator comprising inlets whereby oxygen from the air separation unit, carbonaceous raw material, and water are introduced to the synthesis gas generator, and an outlet for synthesis gas, the synthesis gas generator being adapted to convert the oxygen, carbonaceous raw material, and water under synthesis gas forming operating conditions into synthesis gas;
a cooling unit for cooling the synthesis gas, the cooling unit comprising outlets for water and cooled synthesis gas;
a means for separating the cooled synthesis gas into a first portion of synthesis gas and a second portion of synthesis gas;
a Fischer-Tropsch reactor, the Fischer-Tropsch reactor comprising an inlet for the first portion of synthesis gas, an outlet for tail gases comprising unreacted carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and gaseous hydrocarbons and an outlet for liquid hydrocarbons; the Fischer-Tropsch reactor adapted to form primarily aliphatic hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide from the first portion of synthesis gas;
a compressor comprising an inlet for the second portion of the synthesis gas and the Fischer-Tropsch tail gas and an outlet for a compressed gas mixture;
one or more shift reactors comprising inlets for the compressed gas mixture and steam and an outlet for shifted gases comprising hydrogen and carbon dioxide; the one or more shift reactors adapted to convert a portion of the carbon monoxide and water to hydrogen and carbon dioxide;
a hydrogen membrane separator comprising an inlet for the shifted gases and outlets for a hydrogen-rich gas stream and a hydrogen-lean gas stream;
a gas turbine combustor of a combined cycle plant, the gas turbine combustor comprising an inlet for the hydrogen-lean gas stream, adapted for burning the hydrogen-lean gases to drive a generator mechanically coupled to the gas turbine thereby producing electricity;
a compressor comprising an inlet for the hydrogen-rich gas stream and an outlet for elevated pressure hydrogen-rich gas;
a pressure swing adsorption unit comprising an inlet for the elevated pressure hydrogen-rich gas and an outlet for high purity hydrogen; and
a reactor comprising inlets for a portion of the high purity hydrogen and nitrogen from the air separation unit and adapted to produce ammonia from the high purity hydrogen and the nitrogen.
2. The multi-product plant of claim 1 further comprising at least one cleaning unit adapted to remove from the synthesis gas at least one selected from the group consisting of sulfur compounds, carbon dioxide, and char; the at least one cleaning unit comprising an inlet for synthesis gas and an outlet for cleaned synthesis gas, the at least one cleaning unit positioned upstream or downstream of the cooling unit for cooling the synthesis gas, and upstream of the Fischer-Tropsch reactor.
3. The multi-product plant of claim 2 wherein the at least one cleaning unit comprises an acid gas removal unit, the acid gas removal unit further comprising an outlet for a stream comprising hydrogen sulfide.
4. The multi-product plant of claim 3 wherein the acid gas removal unit further comprises an outlet for carbon dioxide.
5. The multi-product plant of claim 1 further comprising a product upgrade unit, the product upgrade unit comprising an inlet for at least a portion of the liquid hydrocarbons from the Fischer-Tropsch reactor and an inlet for a portion of the high purity hydrogen from the pressure swing absorption unit, the product upgrade unit adapted for upgrading the liquid hydrocarbons by hydrotreating.
6. An integrated system for the economical production of ammonia via steam methane reforming of a gas mixture comprising Fischer-Tropsch tail gases, and for the production of liquid hydrocarbons via Fischer-Tropsch reaction; the system comprising:
an air separation unit comprising an inlet for air and outlets for oxygen and nitrogen;
a synthesis gas generator comprising inlets whereby oxygen from the air separation unit, carbonaceous raw material, and water are introduced to the synthesis gas generator, and an outlet for synthesis gas, the synthesis gas generator being adapted to convert the oxygen, carbonaceous raw material, and water under synthesis gas forming operating conditions into synthesis gas;
a cooling unit for cooling the synthesis gas, the cooling unit comprising outlets for water and cooled synthesis gas;
a means for separating the cooled synthesis gas into a first portion of synthesis gas and a second portion of synthesis gas;
a Fischer-Tropsch reactor, the Fischer-Tropsch reactor adapted to form primarily aliphatic hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide from the first portion of the synthesis gas, the Fischer-Tropsch reactor comprising an outlet for tail gases comprising unreacted carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and gaseous hydrocarbons and an outlet for Fischer-Tropsch liquid hydrocarbons;
a compressor comprising an inlet for the Fischer-Tropsch tail gas and an outlet for a compressed tail gas;
a steam methane reformer comprising inlets for the compressed gas and steam, and an outlet for a reformer effluent comprising hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide, the steam methane reformer adapted to produce the reformer effluent from the inlet gases;
one or more shift reactors comprising an inlet for a gas mixture comprising the second portion of the synthesis gas and the reformer effluent and an outlet for shift reactor effluent comprising hydrogen and carbon dioxide, the one or more shift reactors adapted for converting a portion of the carbon monoxide and water in the inlet gas mixture to hydrogen and carbon dioxide;
an absorption system comprising an inlet for shift reactor effluent, an outlet for carbon dioxide, and an outlet for a concentrated hydrogen stream comprising trace amounts of CO and CO2;
a methanator comprising an inlet for the concentrated hydrogen stream comprising trace amounts of CO and CO2 and an outlet for methanator effluent; the methanator adapted for converting the CO and CO2 to methane;
an ammonia synthesis reactor comprising an inlet for the methanator effluent, an inlet for a nitrogen stream comprising nitrogen from the air separation unit, an outlet for purge gases comprising hydrogen and an outlet for ammonia; the ammonia synthesis reactor adapted for producing ammonia;
a hydrogen membrane separator comprising an inlet for the purge gases comprising hydrogen, an outlet for a hydrogen rich gas stream, and an outlet for a hydrogen-lean gas stream;
a heat recovery steam generator comprising an inlet for at least a portion of the hydrogen-lean gases; the heat recovery steam generator mechanically coupled to a steam turbine adapted for the production of electricity;
a compressor comprising an inlet for the hydrogen-rich gases and an outlet for a compressed hydrogen-rich gas stream;
a pressure swing adsorption unit comprising an inlet for the compressed hydrogen-rich gas stream and an outlet for high purity hydrogen; and
a reactor comprising an inlet for high-purity hydrogen, an inlet for the Fischer-Tropsch liquid hydrocarbons, and an outlet for upgraded liquid hydrocarbons, the reactor adapted for upgrading the Fischer-Tropsch liquid hydrocarbons by hydrotreating.
7. The integrated system of claim 6, further comprising an adiabatic pre-reformer upstream of the steam methane reformer and downstream of the compressor comprising an inlet for the second portion of the synthesis gas and the Fischer-Tropsch tail gas and an outlet for a compressed tail gas.
8. The integrated system of claim 6 further comprising at least one cleaning unit adapted to remove from the synthesis gas at least one selected from the group consisting of sulfur compounds, carbon dioxide, and char; the at least one cleaning unit comprising an inlet for synthesis gas and an outlet for cleaned synthesis gas, the at least one cleaning unit positioned upstream or downstream of the cooling unit for cooling the synthesis gas and upstream of the Fischer-Tropsch reactor.
9. The integrated system of claim 8 wherein the at least one cleaning unit comprises an acid gas removal unit, the acid gas removal unit further comprising an outlet for a stream comprising hydrogen sulfide.
10. The integrated system of claim 6, wherein the steam methane reformer, the one or more shift reactors, the absorption system, the methanator, and the ammonia synthesis reactor form an ammonia loop of an existing ammonia production plant.