| US 7,593,788 B2 | ||
| Automated control strategy for fuel processor reactor shift catalyst regeneration | ||
| Hongqiao Sun, Sugar Land, Tex. (US); Daniel G. Casey, Kingwood, Tex. (US); Vesna R. Mirkovic, Pearland, Tex. (US); Bhaskar Balasubramanian, Houston, Tex. (US); W. Spencer Wheat, Missouri City, Tex. (US); and Curtis L. Krause, Houston, Tex. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Texaco Inc., San Ramon, Calif. (US) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 17, 2004, as Appl. No. 11/16,676. | ||
| Application 11/016676 is a continuation in part of application No. 10/407488, filed on Apr. 04, 2003, granted, now 7,318,970. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0143862 A1, Jun. 30, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. G05B 21/00 (2006.01); C10J 3/46 (2006.01); G01N 35/08 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 700—266 [700/268; 700/272; 700/274; 48/197 R; 436/43; 436/50; 436/55] | 7 Claims |
| 1. A computing system, comprising:
a computing device;
a bus system;
a storage communicating with the computing device over the bus system;
an application residing on the storage that, when invoked, performs a programmed method comprising:
monitoring a saturation level of a reactor shift bed catalyst in a reformer, which comprises a reformer shift bed;
automatically detecting that the reactor shift bed catalyst has entered a saturated sate; and
automatically regenerating the reactor shift bed catalyst in response to automatically detecting the saturated state.
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