FULL TEMPERATURE RANGE SIMULATED ROTATED MOVING PRESSING SWING ADSORPTION (FTRSRMPSA) ENHANCED REACTION HYDROGEN GENERATION PROCESS FROM SHIFTED GAS
20250083955 ยท 2025-03-13
Inventors
- Lanhai Wang (Jiaxing, CN)
- Yaling Zhong (Jiaxing, CN)
- Yun Chen (Jiaxing, CN)
- Jincai Tang (Jiaxing, CN)
- Yuming Zhong (Jiaxing, CN)
- Yueming Cai (Jiaxing, CN)
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International classification
Abstract
Disclosed is a full temperature range simulated rotated moving pressure swing adsorption (FTrSRMPSA) enhanced reaction hydrogen generation process from a shifted gas. Multiple axial flow fixed bed adsorption reactors placed on a multi-channel rotary valve and ring-shaped rotary tray, and blended and loaded with medium and low-temperature shift catalysts and adsorbents are connected through a pipeline, and rotating directions and rotating speeds of the rotary valve and ring-shaped rotary tray are regulated. Therefore, gases complete mass and heat transfer of respective conversion reaction-adsorption and desorption regeneration steps by constantly coming in and going out of inlets and outlets of adsorption reactors to achieve a simulated rotated moving bed pressure swing adsorption enhanced reaction process. Hydrogen (H.sub.2) product gases are directly obtained therefrom, and have the purity and yield of greater than or equal to 99.9-99.99% and 92-95%, respectively. High purity carbon dioxide (CO.sub.2) is co-produced.
Claims
1. A full temperature range simulated rotated moving pressure swing adsorption (FTrSRMPSA) enhanced reaction hydrogen generation process from a shifted gas, wherein the full temperature range simulated rotated moving pressure swing adsorption enhanced reaction process (FTrSRMPSA-ERP) system is formed by n (a natural number in a range of 2n10) adsorption reactors (towers) loaded with a medium-low temperature shift catalyst and a compound adsorbent blended in a certain proportion, having axial flow fixed bed adsorption reactors (towers) with a certain height-diameter ratio and placed on a ring-shaped rotary tray at a rotating speed (.sub.2, in second(s)/r), an m (a natural number in a range of 5m36)-channel rotary valve, placed at a center of the ring-shaped rotary try and rotating at a rotating speed (.sub.1, in second(s)/r), a material pipeline where material gases outside the rotary valve and a system come in and go out, a process pipeline connected from a built-in pipeline of the ring-shaped tray to a position between the adsorption reactors (towers) and the rotary valve, and a driving mechanism correspondingly driving the ring-shaped rotary tray and the rotary valve in rotating directions and regulating rotating speeds (.sub.1 and .sub.2) thereof, a buffer tank, a condenser/or heat exchanger/or superheater/or pressurizer/or vacuum pump, wherein the pipeline connecting inlets and outlets of the adsorption reactors (towers) and an inlet and an outlet of the m-channel rotary valve is connected to the built-in pipeline pre-arranged in the ring-shaped rotary tray to form the process pipeline and has the same number m as that of the channels of the rotary valve; positions of the material gas coming in and going out of the FTrSRMPSA-ERP system are fixed by distributing the rotary channels of the m-channel rotary valve, the material gases thereof comprise a shifted gas as a feed gas (F), an H.sub.2 product gas (H.sub.2PG), a purge gas (P) outside the system, a final repressurization gas (FR) outside the system, and a desorption gas (D) formed by a depressurization gas (D) or/and a vacuumizing gas (V) or/and a purge waste gas (PW) and are correspondingly connected to devices comprising the buffer tank, condenser/or heat exchanger/or superheater/or pressurizer/or vacuum pump; the position where the process gases flow in the process pipeline connected through the built-in pipeline in the ring-shaped rotary tray between the inlet and outlet of the m-channel rotary valve and the inlets and outlets of the adsorption reactors (towers) changes alternately in a mobile manner; the process gases flow in the FTrSRMPSA-ERP system, comprising the feed gas (F), a pathwise pressure release gas (PP), the purge gases (P) inside and outside the system, an equalization drop gas (ED), the desorption gas (D) formed by the depressurization gas (D) or/and the vacuumizing gas (V) or/and the purge waste gas (PW), an equalization rise gas (ER), the final repressurization gas (FR), and the product hydrogen (H.sub.2PG); a cyclic process of specific conversion reaction-adsorption and desorption is as follows: the feed shifted gas (F) outside the FTrSRMPSA-ERP system enters feed gas (F) inlets of the multi-channel rotary valve, and enters a conversion reaction-adsorption (CR-A) step from bottoms of the adsorption reactors (towers) through the process pipeline connected to the feed gas (F) channels and the outlet of the rotary valve, the built-in pipeline of the ring-shaped rotary tray, and corresponding inlets of the one or more axial flow fixed adsorption reactors (towers) in a conversion reaction-adsorption (CR-A) state on the ring-shaped rotary tray; as continuously stepped in a matched manner by regulating the rotating direction and the rotating speed (.sub.1) of the m-channel rotary valve and the rotating direction and the rotating speed (.sub.2) of the ring-shaped rotary tray, non-adsorbed phase gases flowing out from tops of the adsorption reactors (tower) just enter channels of the H.sub.2 product gas (H.sub.2PG) of the m-channel rotary valve through the process pipeline and flow out from the channel of the H.sub.2 product gas (H.sub.2PG) of the rotary valve to form the H.sub.2 product gas (H.sub.2PG) that enters the H.sub.2 product gas buffer tank and is then outputted; after the conversion reaction-adsorption (CR-A) step is completed by the adsorption reactors (towers) in the conversion reaction-adsorption (CR-A) state, as the m-channel rotary valve and the ring-shaped rotary tray rotate continuously to step, and/or the adsorption reactors (towers) after the conversion reaction-adsorption (CR-A) perform a pathwise pressure release (PP) or equalization drop (ED) step on one or more adsorption reactors (towers) in a purge (P) or equalization rise (ER) state through the process pipeline inside the system; the adsorption reactors (towers) after the pathwise pressure release (PP) or equalization drop (ED) step enter a depressurization (D) or/and vacuumizing (V) or/and purge (P) step as the m-channel rotary valves and the ring-shaped rotary tray rotate continuously to step; the desorption gas (D) formed by the depressurization gas (D) or/and vacuumizing gas (V) or/and purge waste gas (PW) flowing out from the adsorption towers flow out through the built-in pipeline or an external pipeline of the ring-shaped rotary tray and depressurization gas (D)/vacuumizing gas (V)/purge waste gas (PW) channel of the rotary valve and the outlet end thereof and flow through the desorption gas (D) buffer tank, and the desorption gas (D) is a CO.sub.2-enriched gas, or the desorption gas directly enters the condenser to remove a water and co-produce high concentration CO.sub.2, or enters a decarburization and H.sub.2 recovery step, or returns to a natural gas/light hydrocarbon steam reforming reaction to a step of preparing the shifted gas or feed gas as carbon-hydrogen ratio adjustment; the adsorption reactor (tower) after the depressurization (D) or/and vacuumizing (V) or/and purge (P) step enters an equalization rise (ER) or waiting area (-) step as the m-channel rotary valve and the ring-shaped rotary ring rotate continuously to step; the process gases flow out from the adsorption reactor (tower) in the ED step and enter the adsorption reactor (tower) in the ER step through the built-in pipeline of the ring-shaped rotary tray and the ED channel of the rotary valve for equalization, so that the adsorption reactor (tower) in the ER or/and waiting area (-) step is finished till the pressure of the adsorption reactor (tower) in the ER step is equal to the pressure in the adsorption reactor (tower) in the ED step, and enters a final repressurization (FR) step as the m-channel rotary valve and the ring-shaped rotary ring rotate continuously to step; the H.sub.2 product gas (H.sub.2PG) or the feed shifted gas (F), as the final repressurization gas (FR), flow through the FR channels of the m-channel rotary valves and the built-in pipeline of the ring-shaped rotary tray to enter the adsorption reactors (towers) for pressure inflation till the pressure in the adsorption reactor (tower) reaches the conversion reaction-adsorption pressure needed by the CR-A step, and a cyclic operation of conversion reaction-adsorption and desorption next round is prepared; each adsorption reactor (tower) performs one or more step and each step and is matched by regulating the rotating direction and the rotating speed (.sub.1) of the m-channel rotary valve and the rotating direction and the rotating speed (.sub.2) of the ring-shaped rotary tray, so that the m channels in the rotating m-channel rotary valve are connected to time scales in the cyclic operation of conversion reaction-adsorption and desorption of the n rotating adsorption reactors (towers) in the ring-shaped rotary tray end to end to form a circle, and integrally form operating cyclicity of the conversion reaction-adsorption and desorption process of the PSA enhanced reaction; all material gases and process gases are uniformly and alternately distributed in m round (slotted) channels in the m-channel rotary valve and the built-in pipeline in the ring-shaped rotary tray and the adsorption reactors (towers) in the system, in the PSA enhanced reaction process of one cyclic period, the steps in the conversion reaction-adsorption and desorption process are simultaneously performed on the adsorption reactors (towers) on the rotating m-channel rotary valve (.sub.1) and the correspondingly rotating adsorption reactors (towers) on the ring-shaped rotary tray (.sub.2) connected, respectively; the positions of the process gases coming in and going out of the adsorption reactors (towers) change constantly by matching the rotating direction and the rotating speed (.sub.1) of the m-channel rotary valve and the rotating direction and the rotating speed (.sub.2) of the ring-shaped rotary tray, so that each adsorption reactor (tower) repeats the conversion reaction-adsorption and desorption step, and equivalently, each fixed bed adsorption reactor (tower) completes respective conversion reaction-adsorption and desorption step while the m-channel rotary valve and the ring-shaped rotary tray rotate, so as to form a simulated rotated moving bed PSA enhanced reaction process; and therefore, the product H.sub.2 product gas (H.sub.2PG) is obtained from the shifted gas, wherein the purity of the gas product is greater than or equal to 99.99%, and the yield thereof is greater than or equal to 92%.
2. The full temperature range simulated rotated moving pressure swing adsorption (FTrSRMPSA) enhanced reaction hydrogen generation process from a shifted gas according to claim 1, wherein the step of regulating and matching the rotating directions of the m-channel rotary valve and the ring-shaped rotary tray and the rotating speeds thereof (.sub.1 and .sub.2) comprises: 1) homodromous synchronizing, wherein the m-channel rotary valve and the ring-shaped rotary tray rotate homodromously in the clockwise or anticlockwise direction and .sub.1=.sub.20; 2) homodromous asynchronizing, wherein the m-channel rotary valve and the ring-shaped rotary tray rotate homodromously in the clockwise or anticlockwise direction and .sub.1>.sub.2 or .sub.1<.sub.2 or .sub.10/.sub.2=0 or .sub.1=0/.sub.20; 3) heterodromous synchronizing, wherein the m-channel rotary valve and the ring-shaped rotary tray rotate heterodromously in the clockwise/anticlockwise direction or anticlockwise/clockwise direction and .sub.1=.sub.2/0; and 4) heterodromous asynchronizing, wherein the m-channel rotary valve and the ring-shaped rotary tray rotate heterodromously in the clockwise/anticlockwise direction or anticlockwise/clockwise direction and .sub.1>.sub.2 or .sub.1<.sub.2 or .sub.10/.sub.2=0 or .sub.1=0/.sub.20, and preferably, in the homodromous rotation in the clockwise or anticlockwise direction in the homodromous synchronizing and homodromous asynchronizing, .sub.10/.sub.2=0 or .sub.1=0/.sub.20.
3. The full temperature range simulated rotated moving pressure swing adsorption (FTrSRMPSA) enhanced reaction hydrogen generation process from a shifted gas according to claim 1, wherein a combination of the closed cyclic operation step of conversion reaction-adsorption and desorption of the FTrSRMPSA-ERP system further comprises: 1-2 time pressure equalization, 1-2 batch purge, 1 time vacuumizing, 1-2 time variable temperature pressure swing adsorption of heating and cooled heat exchanging, 1 time mutual dislocation of pathwise pressure release and equalization drop, and 1 waiting area step; moreover, the number (n) of the adsorption reactors (towers) and the number (m) of the corresponding m-channel rotary valve are increased, the height (radius)-diameter ratio (h/r) of the adsorption towers is decreased, and the rotating speeds of the m-channel rotary valve and the ring-shaped rotary tray are enough high in speed or enough short in rotating period, a separation effect of products H.sub.2 and CO.sub.2 in a shifted gas adsorption enhanced reaction system infinitely approaches a steady mass transfer separation process of the moving bed, the shifted gas reaction balance tends to move toward a complete reaction direction therewith, and the purity of the H.sub.2 product gas (H.sub.2PG) finally obtained is greater than or equal to 99.999%, and the product yield is greater than or equal to 95%.
4. The full temperature range simulated rotated moving pressure swing adsorption (FTrSRMPSA) enhanced reaction hydrogen generation process from a shifted gas according to claim 1, wherein the shifted gas (F) as a raw material is a mixed gas formed by 3060% of H.sub.2 (v), 10-20% CO (v), and 10-20% CO.sub.2 (v) obtained by catalytically reforming or thermally cracking methane or methanol or other hydrocarbons by steam, unreacted water, hydrocarbons and other hydrocarbons or organic matter byproduct impurities, and the temperature of the shifted gas is 90-150 C., the pressure thereof is 0.2-1.0 MPa, and the flow thereof is 100-20000 Nm.sup.3/h.
5. The full temperature range simulated rotated moving pressure swing adsorption (FTrSRMPSA) enhanced reaction hydrogen generation process from a shifted gas according to claim 1, wherein the purge gas (P) is the pathwise pressure release gas (PP) inside the system or the H.sub.2 product gas (H.sub.2PG) outside the system, and is purged in batches through one or more holes in the channels (slots) of the m-channel rotary valve, at most 4 holes are formed, the pathwise pressure release gas (PP) inside the system is preferably taken as the purge gas (P), and the yield of the H.sub.2 product gas (H.sub.2PG) reaches 93% or above.
6. The full temperature range simulated rotated moving pressure swing adsorption (FTrSRMPSA) enhanced reaction hydrogen generation process from a shifted gas according to claim 1, wherein in the depressurization (D) step, desorption is performed in a vacuumizing manner; the additionally arranged vacuum pump is connected to a material flow pipeline of the m-channel rotary valve where the desorption gas flows out or is directly connected to the external pipeline connected to the outlet end of the adsorption tower on the ring-shaped rotary tray, and a control valve is arranged on the external pipeline, and preferably, the vacuum pump is directly connected to the external pipeline connected to the outlet end of the adsorption tower on the ring-shaped rotary tray and the control valve is arranged on the external pipeline.
7. The full temperature range simulated rotated moving pressure swing adsorption (FTrSRMPSA) enhanced reaction hydrogen generation process from a shifted gas according to claim 1, wherein the final repressurization gas (FR) is the feed shifted gas (F) or the H.sub.2 product gas (H.sub.2PG) outside the system, and under a working condition that the purity of the H.sub.2 product gas (H.sub.2PG) is required to be greater than or equal to 99.99%, the H.sub.2 product gas (H.sub.2PG) is preferably used as the final repressurization gas (FR).
8. The full temperature range simulated rotated moving pressure swing adsorption (FTrSRMPSA) enhanced reaction hydrogen generation process from a shifted gas according to claim 1, wherein the n loaded blended catalysts/adsorbents in the FTrSRMPSA-ERP system are formed by stacking ferric medium shift catalysts and lithium-carbon molecular sieves/activated carbon particles in a proportion of 1:(1-1.5) at an interval, or composite catalytic adsorbent particles of ferric active component loading carbon nanotubes (CNTs) or carbon fibers (CNFs)/activated carbon (AC)/aluminum oxide, or cellular and bundled regular composite catalytic adsorbents formed by high polymer organic matters or carbon nanotubes or carbon fibers or formed by loading ferric active components by taking silicate as a base material, and preferably, the catalysts/adsorbents are formed by stacking ferric medium shift catalysts and lithium-carbon molecular sieves/activated carbon particles in a proportion of 1:1.1 at an interval or the bundled and cellular regular composite adsorbents formed by high polymer organic matters or carbon nanotubes or carbon fibers or formed by loading ferric/lithium active components by taking silicate (containing silicon fluoride, ceramics, and glass fibers) as the base material.
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[0027] Apparently, the embodiments described above are merely some, rather than, all of the embodiments of the disclosure. Based on the embodiments recorded in the disclosure, all other embodiments obtained by persons skilled in the art without making creative efforts or structural changes made under enlightenment of the disclosure with same or similar technical solutions of the disclosure shall fall within the protection scope of the disclosure.