INSTALLATION FOR TREATING A
HYDROGEN GAS
STREAM BY STAGED CATALITIC
COMBUSTION E Installation (14) for treating a gas
stream (16) comprising successive stages (26, 28, 30) adapted to burn
hydrogen from the gas
stream, each of the stages (26, 28, 30) comprising: - a source (38, 40, 42) of a gaseous oxidant
stream, - a
catalytic burner (50, 52, 54) adapted to admit an inlet stream (56, 58, 60), the oxidant stream, and to produce a
flue gas stream (62, 64, 66), - an exchanger (68, 70, 72) for cooling the
flue gas stream and obtaining an outlet stream (74, 76, 78). The inlet stream of a first stage comprises the gas stream to be treated, the inlet stream of each of the other stages comprising the outlet stream of the previous stage. In the stages, except the last, the
catalytic burner burns only a fraction of the
hydrogen present in the inlet stream, the outlet stream still comprising
hydrogen.The installation produces at least one
water flow (18) from the outlet flow of at least one of the stages. Figure for abstract: Figure 2.