PROCESS AND PLANT FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SYNTHESIS GAS AND GENERATION OF PROCESS CONDENSATE

Process and plant for producing a synthesis gas by catalytic steam reforming of a hydrocarbon feedstock in a steam reforming unit, further comprising a first and second shift conversion unit, wherein water is removed from the synthesis gas as a process condensate, wherein boiler feed water is introduced in the process, and wherein said process or plant produces at least two separate steam streams: a pure steam which is generated from at least a portion of said boiler feed water by the cooling of synthesis gas, and a process steam which is generated by evaporating at least a portion of the process condensate in a process condensate boiler (PC-boiler) by using synthesis gas, optionally together with pure steam and/or flue gas from the steam reforming unit. Process steam, and pure steam other than that from the PC boiler, are added to the first shift conversion unit, optionally also to the second second shift conversion unit.