Abstract:
A carbonaceous fuel gasification system for all-steam gasification with carbon capture includes a micronized char preparation system comprising a devolatilizer that receives solid carbonaceous fuel, hydrogen, oxygen, and fluidizing steam and produces micronized char, steam, volatiles, hydrogen, and volatiles at outlets. An indirect gasifier includes a vessel comprising a gasification chamber that receives the micronized char, a conveying fluid, and steam. The gasification chamber produces syngas, ash, and steam at one or more outlets. A combustion chamber receives a mixture of hydrogen and oxidant and burns the mixture of hydrogen and oxidant to provide heat for gasification and for heating incoming flows, thereby generating steam and nitrogen. The heat for gasification is transferred from the combustion chamber to the gasification chamber by circulating refractory sand. The system of the present teaching produces nitrogen free high hydrogen syngas for applications such as IGCC with CCS, CTL, and Polygeneration plants.
Abstract:
Various embodiments disclosed relate to cooling shale gas via reaction of methane, light hydrocarbons, or a combination thereof, with water. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of cooling syngas. The method includes contacting the hot syngas with methane or light hydrocarbons. The hot syngas includes water and has a temperature of about 800° C. to about 3000° C. The contacting is effective to endothermically react the methane or light hydrocarbons with the water in the hot syngas to form carbon monoxide and hydrogen and to provide a cooled syngas having a lower temperature than the hot syngas.
Abstract:
A method for producing syngas from preferably vegetal biomass is described. The method provides for the use of a fixed bed gasifier, equipped with two reactors. The biomass is fed to both reactors together with a primary flow rate of air. Advantageously, the method according to the present invention is different from the known art since a secondary flow rate of air is withdrawn from the first reactor at the area where the biomass dries, and fed to the second reactor at the area where the biomass dries, and vice versa, alternately during time. Alternatively, an oscillating air flow is created in each reactor. The achievable result is a greater syngas production, but not exclusively. The syngas quality is improved too, since the biomass has a longer time for completing the gasification reactions.
Abstract:
The present embodiments are directed towards the cooling of a solvent (15, 86, 222, 314) of a gas treatment system (14) using a fluid flow (30, 32) from an air separation unit (12). In one embodiment, a system (10) is provided that includes an air separation unit (12). The air separation unit (12) has an air inlet (22) configured to receive an air flow (18), an oxygen outlet (30) configured to output an oxygen flow (152, 226, 352, 354), a nitrogen outlet (32) configured to output a nitrogen flow (150, 226, 318, 324) and a cooling system (24, 210, 280, 340) configured to cool the air flow (18) to enable separation of the air flow (18) into the oxygen flow (30) and the nitrogen flow (32), wherein the cooling system (24, 210, 280, 340) is configured to cool a first solvent (15, 86, 222, 314) of a first gas treatment system (14).
Abstract:
A method of separating carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from nitrogen (N 2 ) and oxygen (O 2 ) within a turbine engine system (12) includes, in an exemplary embodiment, directing an air stream (30) into an air separation unit (ASU) (28), separating N 2 from the air stream in the ASU to form an oxygen (O 2 ) rich air stream, and directing the O 2 rich air stream to the combustor (24) to mix with a fuel for combustion forming hot combustion gases, containing O 2 and CO 2 , which are used to rotate the turbine (16). The method also includes directing turbine expander exhaust gases to a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) (50) to create steam, directing exhaust from the HRSG to a condenser (56) to separate water from a mixture of O 2 and CO 2 gases, and directing the mixture of O 2 and CO 2 gases to a separation system (69) where the CO 2 is separated from the O 2 gases and removed from the separation system.
Abstract:
A gasification power generation system provided with a carbon dioxide separation and recovery device (200) comprising: a carbon dioxide separation and recovery device (200) having: a shift reactor (5) to convert carbon monoxide contained in fuel gas into carbon dioxide; a carbon dioxide absorption tower (37) to produce fuel gas; and an absorption liquid recycling device (38) to recycle an absorption liquid; and a gasification power generation system having: a gas turbine device driven by burning the fuel gas; an exhaust heat recovery boiler (20) having a drum (30,31) to generate steam; and a steam turbine (23) driven by the steam generated by the drum (30,31); wherein an evaporator (6) to generate steam is disposed downstream of the shift reactor (5), a steam line to supply a steam mixer (4) disposed in a fuel gas line upstream of the shift reactor (5) with the heated steam generated by the evaporator (6) is provided, and the heated steam supplied through the steam line is allowed to flow from the steam mixer (4) into the shift reactor (5) as shift steam together with the fuel gas.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for generating energy, in which an electropositive metal selected from the alkali metals, the alkaline earth metals, aluminium and zinc, as well as mixtures and/or alloys thereof, is atomised and/or sprayed and is combusted with a reaction gas comprising carbon dioxide and/or water, the reacted mixture of reaction gas and electropositive metal being mixed with water and/or an aqueous solution and/or suspension of a salt of said electropositive metal. The invention also relates to a device for carrying out said method.