Affiliation:
1. Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
2. Dipartimento di Energetica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32-20133 Milan, Italy
Abstract
Conversion of coal to carbon-free energy carriers, H2 and electricity, with CO2 capture and storage may have the potential to satisfy at a comparatively low cost much of the energy requirements in a carbon-constrained world. In a set of recent studies, we have assessed the thermodynamic and economic performance of numerous coal-to-H2 plants that employ O2-blown, entrained-flow gasification and sour water-gas shift (WGS) reactors, examining the effects of system pressure, syngas cooling via quench versus heat exchangers, “conventional” H2 separation via pressure swing adsorption versus novel membrane-based approaches, and various gas turbine technologies for generating coproduct electricity. This study focuses on the synergy between H2 separation membrane reactors (HSMRs) and syngas cooling with radiant and convective heat exchangers; such “syngas coolers” invariably boost system efficiency over that obtained with quench-cooled gasification. Conventional H2 separation requires a relatively high steam-to-carbon ratio (S/C) to achieve a high level of H2 production, and thus is well matched to relatively inefficient quench cooling. In contrast, HSMRs shift the WGS equilibrium by continuously extracting reaction product H2, thereby allowing a much lower S/C ratio and consequently a higher degree of heat recovery and (potentially) system efficiency. We first present a parametric analysis illuminating the interaction between the syngas coolers, high temperature WGS reactor, and HSMR. We then compare the performance and cost of six different plant configurations, highlighting (1) the relative merits of the two syngas cooling methods in membrane-based systems, and (2) the comparative performance of conventional versus HSMR-based H2 separation in plants with syngas coolers.
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Energy Engineering and Power Technology,Aerospace Engineering,Fuel Technology,Nuclear Energy and Engineering
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