Detailed description of the invention
Be further explained in detail the present invention by description below with reference to the accompanying drawings, the corresponding or equivalent parts wherein shown in accompanying drawing or the identical reference numerals of feature represent.
Generally speaking, the reaction of the volatile matter discharged by RESEARCH OF PYROCARBON material, such as bituminous coal plays an important role in pyrolysis product is produced.Due to carbonaceous material experience and the gas of high reaction activity, the reaction be exceedingly fast of such as high-temperature plasma gas, and such reaction requires to be terminated instantaneously, to such an extent as to cannot describe with common process or calculate above-mentioned pyrolysis and reaction.Broadly, pyrolysis product distribution depends on the type of carbonaceous material and the operating condition of employing, if reaction and/or the time of staying only have several milliseconds, the sufficient time just can not be had to reach thermodynamic equilibrium.
For solid carbonaceous material, the heat transfer of carbonaceous material and pyrolysis, homogeneous phase gas-solid reaction and homogeneous gas phase all can affect speed, the i.e. productive rate that pyrolysis product is formed.In fact, main purpose of the present invention also comprises makes some specific cleavage products, maximize yield as acetylene, therefore understands and determine that the characteristic of above-mentioned pyrolysis and reaction, mechanism and operating condition have been one of keys of the present invention.
Countless test confirms: the pyrolysis temperature of carbonaceous material, particularly solid carbonaceous material is preferably 650 DEG C ~ 1250 DEG C, such as 680-1100 DEG C, be more preferably 700 DEG C ~ 930 DEG C, be particularly preferably 750 DEG C ~ 900 DEG C, such as 850 DEG C, and the gas-phase reaction temperature of the volatile matter obtained by carbonaceous material is preferably 1500 DEG C ~ 2900 DEG C, is more preferably 1500 DEG C ~ 2500 DEG C, being particularly preferably 1500 DEG C ~ 2000 DEG C, such as, is 1750 DEG C or 1850 DEG C.
Said temperature determine carbonaceous material experience pyrolysis and discharge volatile matter preferable temperature and subsequently volatile matter carry out the preferable temperature of gas-phase reaction.In the present invention, formed in the region producing plasma and/or electric arc between the hollow cathode of carbonaceous material pyrolysis in described preheating section and anode and just start, and estimate that the volatile matter exceeding maximum growing amount 60% is formed in the reaction tube of above-mentioned preheating section, the gas-phase reaction of above-mentioned volatile matter is then main to be occurred in the reaction tube of hybrid reaction section.
Desirable fast as far as possible and transform as far as possible completely in order to obtain, the above-mentioned gas-phase reaction time of described volatile matter is preferably less than 4 milliseconds, such as 2 milliseconds, more preferably less than 1 millisecond, is particularly preferably less than 0.4 millisecond, such as, is less than 0.3 or 0.2 millisecond.Such reaction time can ensure the high yield obtaining pyrolysis product.
Generally speaking, the feasible method improving the productive rate of pyrolysis product, particularly acetylene has following several:
First, elementary volatile matter and at high-temperature plasma gas, as plasma hydrogen and/or comprise the high but reaction height be exceedingly fast between the plasma composition that the time-to-live is short of reactivity in the inert gas of helium and control some specific cleavage product, productive rate as acetylene.Therefore, if RESEARCH OF PYROCARBON material and discharge high concentration or a large amount of volatile matters extremely rapidly, the productive rate of pyrolysis product will be higher, this ultra-fine grain diameter by choose reasonable carbonaceous material distributes, or consider that the oxygen in volatile matter can be converted into carbon monoxide and consume acetylene, adopt the low-grade but carbonaceous material that oxygen content is low to realize.
Secondly, the optimum operation condition of RESEARCH OF PYROCARBON material is selected, to obtain the volatile matter of maximum quantity.Therefore, suitable pyrolysis time, pressure and/or temperature make described volatile matter growing amount reach maximum key.
3rd, above-mentioned volatile matter is contacted with the plasma composition of as far as possible many high reaction activities, so does and can increase reaction surface and improve reaction conversion ratio.
4th, the reaction temperature of volatile matter and high reaction activity plasma composition is another key factor affecting pyrolysis product productive rate, generally speaking, the productive rate of pyrolysis product improves with the temperature of above-mentioned gas-phase reaction and increases, but too high reaction temperature can cause being formed can the cigarette ash-Jiao of quantitation and hydrogen.
Those of ordinary skill in the art can obviously find out from above analysis: the pyrolysis of carbonaceous material and the gas-phase reaction of elementary volatile matter and high reaction activity plasma composition are all the most important processes forming pyrolysis product.But, the optimal processing parameter of pyrolysis or operating condition are usually different from the optimal processing parameter of above-mentioned gas-phase reaction or operating condition, if as the structural design of existing plasma reactor, i.e. the contacting and mixing of carbonaceous material and plasma flow, carbonaceous material pyrolysis, occur in the same space or region with volatile matter gas-phase reaction, not only because the region that carbonaceous material contacts with plasma flow and mix causes hot transfer efficiency to decline away from high-temperature region, and the technological parameter of pyrolysis and gas-phase reaction or operating condition also cannot reach well balance and optimization.If there is the high-temperature region of multiple formation high reaction activity plasma gas or electric arc in reaction tube simultaneously, the quantity that the volatile matter produced by carbonaceous material will be caused to carry out Jiao that secondary response is formed increases, these Jiao are attached on the wall of reactor, will have a strong impact on the work of reactor.Contradiction how between the thermal efficiency of concerted reaction device, product yield and the coking of eliminative reaction wall surface is a very difficult problem.
For above-mentioned technical barrier, the present inventor is proposed by countless exploration and experiment and has been invented a kind of multistage plasma reactor system of brand new, the multistage plasma reactor system invented makes above-mentioned pyrolysis and gas-phase reaction occur in different spaces or region dexterously, make the technological parameter of pyrolysis and gas-phase reaction or operating condition reach optimum simultaneously, a high-temperature region forming high reaction activity plasma gas or electric arc is only set simultaneously in the reaction tube of preheating section for preheating carbonaceous material and carrier gas pan feeding, thus avoid that reaction temperature in reactor is too high causes a large amount of coking in reactor wall surface, and ensure that the thermal efficiency that reactor assembly is higher.
Exemplarily property example, as shown in Figure 1, in multistage plasma reactor system of the present invention, the plasma formed between the hollow cathode 21 of preheating section and anode 31 and/or electric arc forming region are arranged in the reaction tube of described preheating section, carbonaceous material the reaction tube of above-mentioned preheating section and carrier gas pan feeding is entered in described plasma and/or electric arc forming region or contact fully with the plasma gas produced near it and mix herein from described hollow cathode 21 hollow channel, and carbonaceous material described in preheating and carrier gas pan feeding, cause the pyrolytic reaction of carbonaceous material.
Equally, as shown in Figure 1, in multistage plasma reactor system of the present invention, the cathode bar 22 of hybrid reaction section, 23 and anode 32, the plasma formed between 33 and/or electric arc forming region are positioned at outside the reaction tube of described hybrid reaction section, multiply working gas enters multiply plasma gas that described plasma and/or electric arc forming region produce in the reaction tube center of above-mentioned hybrid reaction section or near it, head-on collision occurs and enter carbonaceous material in the reaction tube of above-mentioned hybrid reaction section and carrier gas pan feeding and its volatiles produced with the reaction tube by above-mentioned preheating section carry out counter current contact and strongly mix through its entrance, the carbonaceous material of further heating preheating and carrier gas pan feeding, and impel described carbonaceous material generation pyrolysis, cracking and volatile matter gas-phase reaction.
The structural design of above-mentioned multistage plasma reactor system makes in the plasma of formed plasma flow between above-mentioned preheating section hollow cathode and anode and/or electric arc forming region, particularly in the highest temperature region of the contiguous arc column of described forming region or near to contact fully with carrier gas pan feeding with carbonaceous material and mix, pyrolysis is caused fast and while efficient heat transfer in realization, and discharge volatile matter, along with the lasting of heat transfer and carbonaceous material enter in the reaction tube of described hybrid reaction section, the further concurrent heating of the multiply plasma produced outward through the reaction tube of hybrid reaction section and strong convection current mixing, carbonaceous material and the volatile matter temperature formed promote further, and cause the gas-phase reaction of a large amount of volatile matter, thus produce various pyrolysis product, like this, the technological parameter of pyrolysis and gas-phase reaction and operating condition can be controlled independently of one another or be selected, also make them be optimised simultaneously and become possibility.
As shown in Figure 1, in preheating section, the forming region of plasma and/or electric arc and/or the position of highest temperature zone are by adjusting described hollow cathode 21, the position of anode 31, size and/or structural parameters and changing, such adjustment can guarantee carbonaceous material and carrier gas pan feeding 1 and/or volatiles and the preheated zone that plasma flow carries out fully contacting and efficiently mix be positioned at the highest temperature region of described plasma and/or electric arc forming region or its near, thus realize conducting heat fast and efficiently.Such as, the minimum distance between the surface of hollow cathode 21 and anode 31 is generally 1-400 millimeter, is preferably 1-15 millimeter, such as 10 millimeters.
In order to prevent hollow cathode 21, cathode bar 22,23 and/or anode 31,32,33 overheated, at least part of region of described hollow cathode 21 and cathode bar 22,23 outer surface and anode 31,32,33 is cooled medium circulation cooling, has cooling medium entrance 3,5,8 and 13 and cooling medium outlet 4,6,9 and 14 near it.
In above-mentioned multistage plasma reactor system, pyrolysis temperature is generally 650 DEG C ~ 1250 DEG C, gas-phase reaction temperature is then 1500 DEG C ~ 2900 DEG C, so pyrolysis temperature is significantly less than gas-phase reaction temperature, for promoting that the warm operation gas of pyrolysis is at the high-temperature plasma gas becoming hydrogen, nitrogen, methane and/or inert gas after plasma and/or electric arc forming region, through with the mixing and heat transfer of carbonaceous material and carrier pan feeding, carbonaceous material is preheated to 650 DEG C ~ 1250 DEG C.
In order to prevent from being obtained by gas-phase reaction pyrolysis product, as acetylene decomposition or cigarette ash-Jiao and the hydrogen that secondary response finally forms low value occurs, the pyrolysis product generated in the end a described hybrid reaction section reaction tube bottom must moment by Quench.Generally speaking, pyrolysis product after its formation preferred within 4 milliseconds, such as 2 millisecond by Quench to 650 DEG C, preferably 600 DEG C, particularly preferably less than 527 DEG C.Described shock chilling medium can preferably include aqueous water, water vapour, propane, aromatic compound, inert gas, the carbonaceous material of any type and/or their mixture.
The pressure of described reactor assembly can be negative pressure-malleation, such as 70 ~ 200KPa, preferably 100 ~ 150KPa, more preferably 110 ~ 140KPa.The length of reaction tube and pan feeding flow typically depend on the number of the time of staying of pan feeding in preheating section and hybrid reaction section, reaction time and hybrid reaction section.More typically, the temporal summation of the pyrolysis occurred in described reactor assembly, gas-phase reaction and Quench is preferably less than 50 milliseconds.
In order to obtain the excellent transmission efficiency of ultra-fine grain or finely disseminated carbonaceous material and/or realize fully mixing or close contact of carbonaceous material and plasma flow; usual needs are for transmitting the carrier gas of particles of carbonaceous material or fine powder, and carrier gas can be selected from hydrogen, methane, nitrogen, gaseous carbon material, inert gas and/or their mixture.The exemplary embodiment of inert gas is argon gas and/or helium.
In order to prevent reactor wall surface from obvious coking occurring, in preheating section, the cross-sectional area of reaction tube is greater than the cross-sectional area of hollow cathode, and the cross-sectional area of preferred reaction pipe is 1 ~ 3 times of the cross-sectional area of hollow cathode.Such design prevents pan feeding or thermal decomposition product directly wash away the inner surface of above-mentioned reaction tube and are formed or build up burnt thereon.
Equally, in order to distribution or dispersed carbon material and carrier gas pan feeding, working gas (plasma gas), pyrolysis product and/or shock chilling medium equably in described reactor assembly inner space, preferably: the quantity of the entrance of carbonaceous material and carrier gas pan feeding, working gas (plasma gas), pyrolysis product and/or shock chilling medium can be multiple, and it is even more preferred that above-mentioned entrance in the horizontal direction can by symmetrical and relatively arrange.
The carbonaceous material used in plasma reactor system of the present invention can be solid-state, liquid and/or gaseous material, and be preferably solid carbonaceous material, such as, it is selected from coal, coal tar, coal directly-liquefied residue, heavy oil residue, Jiao, petroleum coke, oil-sand, shale oil, carbonaceous industrial waste or tailing, living beings, synthetic plastic, synthetic polymer, damaged tire, Municipal solid rubbish, pitch and/or their mixture.
In multistage plasma reactor system of the present invention, the input power of described hollow cathode 21, cathode bar 22,23 and anode 31,32,33 can be 1kW ~ 20MW, such as, be 5kW ~ 10MW, to form the electric arc producing plasma flow.The details relevant to plasma generator can be taken from or with reference to existing document, such as US4358629, CN1562922A or CN 101742808A, in order to save space, and being described in detail in this and saving about plasma generator.
Just start because carbonaceous material pyrolysis to enter at carbonaceous material in the plasma and/or electric arc forming region or the high-temperature region near it formed between above-mentioned preheating section hollow cathode 21 and preheating section anode 31, and in the reaction tube entering hybrid reaction section after still in continuation, so carbonaceous material pyrolysis time is usually high than the reactivity contained by the main elementary volatile matter that occurs in the reaction tube of hybrid reaction section and high-temperature plasma air-flow but the time that the is gas-phase reaction of the plasma composition that the time-to-live is short is long.
The novel structure of multistage plasma reactor system of the present invention has the following advantages and feature:
(1) in preheating section, due to carbonaceous material and carrier gas pan feeding and high-temperature plasma air flow contacts and the region that mixes close in preheating section reaction tube plasma and/or electric arc forming region highest temperature region or near, temperature and its of carbonaceous material are greatly improved in preheating section by the speed heated, while realizing quick and efficient heat transfer, carbonaceous material can discharge more volatile matters at short notice, this is conducive to forming more pyrolysis product in hybrid reaction section, simultaneously, the design that plasma and/or electric arc forming region and highest temperature zone thereof are arranged in preheating section reaction tube is also very beneficial for improving the thermal efficiency of reactor.
(2) be mainly preheated in preheating section due to carbonaceous material and pyrolysis occurs, the elementary volatile matter that its temperature is still not enough to pyrolysis is produced and reactivity high but carry out obvious gas-phase reaction between the plasma composition that the time-to-live is short, so, although it is higher to be arranged in the plasma of preheating section reaction tube and/or electric arc forming region and highest temperature zone temperature thereof, can not impels and reactor wall formed or builds up a large amount of Jiao.
(3) carbonaceous material pyrolysis just starts in preheating section reaction tube, and be continued until that it enters after in the reaction tube of hybrid reaction section, therefore, carbonaceous material contacts in preheating section reaction tube with high-temperature plasma air-flow, the time of mixing and pyrolysis is different with region from the time that elementary volatile matter gas-phase reaction mainly occurs in hybrid reaction section with region, this will make pyrolysis and gas-phase reaction occur in different spaces or region, thus the technological parameter of pyrolysis and gas-phase reaction or operating condition may be regulated and controled independently of one another, and reach optimum simultaneously, this becomes the conversion ratio of pyrolysis product by greatly improving carbonaceous material.
(4) in hybrid reaction section, multiply working gas is converted into multiply high-temperature plasma gas, these multiply high-temperature plasma gases carry amount of heat and enter after in the reaction tube of hybrid reaction section, in the reaction tube center of hybrid reaction section or near it, head-on collision occurs and enter carbonaceous material in the reaction tube of hybrid reaction section and carrier gas pan feeding and its volatiles produced with the reaction tube by preheating section carry out counter current contact and strongly mix, and rapid reaction temperature being brought up to impels carbonaceous material generation pyrolysis and cracking, the particularly temperature of the elementary volatile matter generation gas-phase reaction of pyrolysis generation, thus carbonaceous material is achieved and efficient between carrier gas pan feeding and high-temperature plasma air-flow, conduct heat fast and uniformly.This will greatly improve productive rate and the yield of pyrolysis product, particularly acetylene.
(5) although reaction temperature is higher in the reaction tube of hybrid reaction section, but it is different from preheating section, in hybrid reaction section, due to by the plasma produced between cathode bar and anode and/or electric arc forming region and highest temperature zone thereof not in the reaction tube of hybrid reaction section, and in the chamber formed by anode, the multiply high-temperature plasma air-flow produced carries amount of heat and leaves after multiple such chamber enters the reaction tube of hybrid reaction section, just carry out contacting and mixing with the volatiles of carbonaceous material and generation thereof, so both ensure that in the reaction tube of hybrid reaction section that there is sufficiently high reaction temperature, the excess calories of high-temperature plasma torch is prevented again to concentrate in the reaction tube of hybrid reaction section, the concentrations of Thermal release is caused to there will not be in reaction tube, thus avoid serious energy waste and near reactor wall, occur a large amount of coking and too high Temperature Distribution.
(6) in multistage plasma reactor system of the present invention, preheating section and the diverse structural design of hybrid reaction section make multistage plasma reactor system of the present invention solve the reactor assembly thermal efficiency, contradiction between cleavage reaction product yield and the coking of eliminative reaction wall surface well.
Multistage plasma reactor system of the present invention can be used to produce the pyrolysis product from various carbonaceous material, and typical method is as described below:
A) through the hollow channel of described hollow cathode, carbonaceous material is incorporated in preheating section reaction tube by means of carrier gas, is formed between the hollow cathode of preheating section and anode and be positioned at the generation plasma of preheating section reaction tube and/or the region of electric arc;
B) through the working gas entrance between hollow cathode or anode, working gas is incorporated in the region of above-mentioned generation plasma and/or electric arc, working gas is in plasma when passing through the electric arc forming region between hollow cathode and anode subsequently, and above-mentioned generation plasma and/or electric arc region or its highest temperature region or fully contact with carrier gas pan feeding with the carbonaceous material entered from hollow cathode hollow channel in above-mentioned preheating section reaction tube near it and mix, and cause pyrolytic reaction and/or a small amount of gas-phase reaction;
C) mixture of carbonaceous material and carrier gas pan feeding and/or volatiles and plasma flow enters in the reaction tube of hybrid reaction section subsequently, multiply working gas enters by the plasma produced between the cathode bar of hybrid reaction section and anode and/or electric arc forming region through its entrance, and be in plasma when passing through above-mentioned electric arc forming region, the multiply plasma gas produced carries amount of heat and enters after in the reaction tube of hybrid reaction section, in the reaction tube center of hybrid reaction section or near it, head-on collision occurs and enter carbonaceous material in the reaction tube of hybrid reaction section and carrier gas pan feeding and its volatiles produced with the reaction tube by preheating section carry out counter current contact and strongly mix, and rapid reaction temperature being brought up to impels carbonaceous material generation pyrolysis and cracking, the particularly temperature of the elementary volatile matter generation gas-phase reaction of pyrolysis generation, thus impel, in the reaction tube of hybrid reaction section, carbonaceous material cracking reaction occurs, particularly volatile matter gas-phase reaction, thus produce cracking and/or thermal decomposition product,
D) through described shock chilling medium entrance, shock chilling medium is incorporated into the bottom of last hybrid reaction section reaction tube, so that Quench or freeze described cracking and/or thermal decomposition product;
E) through Quench product and gas vent by cracking and/or thermal decomposition product, gas, and/or the carbonaceous material residue of pyrolysis discharges described reactor or reaction tube.
Generally speaking, the pyrolysis product of carbonaceous material is mixture, and it comprises acetylene, carbon monoxide, methane, ethene, hydrogen and Jiao etc., if want to obtain some specific cleavage product, as acetylene, just need the mixture being separated described pyrolysis product, to obtain substantially pure pyrolysis product.Such as, bibliography US4367363 discloses the separation method isolating pure acetylene from above-mentioned cleavage product mixtures.In order to save space, be described in detail in this save about what be separated.
In order to obtain the optimum efficiency of carbonaceous material pyrolysis and cracking, except the structural design of plasma reactor system, also should further consider or select the physics and chemistry character of pan feeding, to make the productive rate of pyrolysis product reach maximum.Generally speaking, the average grain diameter of carbonaceous material is preferably 10 ~ 300 microns, and carbonaceous material temperature before entering described reactor assembly is preferably 20 ~ 300 DEG C.The volume ratio of carbonaceous material and carrier gas is generally 10/90 ~ 90/10, is preferably 20/80 ~ 80/20, is more preferably 30/70 ~ 70/30, is particularly preferably 40/60 ~ 60/40, such as 50/50.
Finally, also should be clear: carbonaceous material and/or volatiles are preferably greater than 10 by the speed heated
4k/ second, and in order to the flexibility that operates with under various circumstances to the different demands of operation, described hollow cathode, cathode bar, anode and/or their position, size and/or structural parameters are adjustable.
Embodiment
Embodiment 1
Schematic diagram is that the reactor assembly of the multistage plasma pyrolysis carbonaceous material of the present invention of Fig. 1 is used to coal tar is converted into acetylene and other chemicals.Using the coal tar that produces in a kind of pyrolysis of coal process as carbonaceous material pan feeding, its character is as shown in table 1.
Table 1
In the invention described above multistage plasma reactor system, the hollow cathode 21 of preheating section and the input power of plasma torch thereof are 5kW, four cathode bars 22 and 23 of hybrid reaction section and the input power of plasma torch thereof are all 5kW, to form the arc region producing plasma and four arc region forming generation plasma in hybrid reaction section at preheating section.
As shown in Figure 1, the coal tar pan feeding 1 of 300K is introduced in described preheating section reaction tube under the conveying in argon carrier of the hollow channel of hollow cathode 21, volume ratio is that the argon hydrogen mixture working gas of 4:6 is introduced in through its entrance 2 in the arc region formed by hollow cathode 21 and anode 31 in preheating section reaction tube and is in plasma, wherein, coal tar pan feeding and plasmarized working gas close on arc column region 41 in preheating section arc region is rapidly mixed, thus rapidly by the preheating of coal tar pan feeding, and its temperature is risen to the temperature starting to carry out pyrolytic reaction.
Afterwards, coal tar pan feeding 1, the volatile matter that argon carrier and pyrolysis produce enters in the reaction tube of hybrid reaction section downwards, the argon hydrogen mixture working gas that four bursts of volume ratios are similarly 4:6 is introduced in four arc region that hybrid reaction section formed by cathode bar 22 and 23 and anode 32 and 33 through its entrance 7 and 12 and is in plasma, consequent four strands of high-temperature plasma air-flows enter the reaction tube center that is positioned at hybrid reaction section or near zone 42 clashes, and the coal tar pan feeding entered with the reaction tube by preheating section in the reaction tube of hybrid reaction section, carrier gas and volatiles carry out counter current contact and strong mixing, and rapid reaction temperature being brought up to impels coal tar that pyrolysis and cracking occur further, the temperature of the elementary volatile matter generation gas-phase reaction particularly making pyrolysis produce, thus form a large amount of cleavage reaction product, such as acetylene.
Cleavage reaction product, such as acetylene are entered the shock chilling medium Quench of the reaction tube bottom of hybrid reaction section or are freezed through its entrance 17, the outlet 18 finally by Quench product and gas is discharged reactor.
The invention described above multistage plasma reactor system runs under following operating condition: system pressure is 110kPa, the gross output of electrode is 25kW, coal tar flow 9kg/h, argon carrier flow is 125g/h, argon hydrogen mixture working gas flow 500g/h in preheating section, in hybrid reaction section, per share argon hydrogen mixture working gas flow is 200g/h.Coal tar is entered in the reaction tube of hybrid reaction section by after the plasma flow preheating of argon hydrogen mixture in the reaction tube of preheating section, and wherein, be about 3000K at the regional temperature near arc column, the hot-cast socket factor is more than 90%.
Coal tar, carrier gas and/or volatiles carry out fast with high-temperature plasma air-flow in the reaction tube of preheating section and hybrid reaction section, after efficient and Homogeneous phase mixing and heat transfer, produce a large amount of cleavage reaction products.Aqueous water is injected into the reaction tube bottom of hybrid reaction section as shock chilling medium through the shock chilling medium entrance 17 be positioned near pyrolysis product outlet 18, so as moment Quench or freeze formed cleavage reaction product stream, shock chilling medium-liquid velocity is 40kg/h.The total residence time of coal tar in reactor assembly is about 30 milliseconds.The energy efficiency of described reactor is about 80% through measuring and calculating, that is, input power 80% by reacting product stream and for the water that cools plasma reactor wall absorb, the heat loss wherein caused by reaction tube is about 4kW.
Comparative example 1
Schematic diagram is that the reactor assembly with three sections of plasma pyrolysis carbonaceous materials of hollow cathode of Fig. 2 is used to coal tar is converted into acetylene and other chemicals.Adopt with the identical coal tar used in embodiment 1 as carbonaceous material pan feeding.
The input power of the plasma torch of above-mentioned three sections of plasma reactor system first paragraph hollow cathodes and anodic formation is 5kW, the input power of the plasma torch of second segment and the 3rd section of hollow cathode and anodic formation is all 10kW, to form the electric arc producing plasma.As shown in Figure 2, described reactor assembly primarily of hollow cathode 11,14 and 214, anode 5,205 and 305, working gas entrance 4,204 and 304, be used as the reaction tube 14 of second segment hollow cathode and be used as reaction tube 214 and the 3rd section of reaction tube 314, the entrance of shock chilling medium 8 and the outlet composition of the cold product 10 of Quench of the 3rd section of hollow cathode, wherein, hollow cathode 11,14 and 214 outer surface and described anode 5, nearest horizontal range d between 205 and the inner surface of 305
1it is 12 millimeters; Hollow cathode 11,14 and 214 outer surface lower end and described anode 5, minimum distance d between 205 and the inner surface of 305
2be respectively 8 millimeters; The sidewall 13,213 and 313 of described anode 5,205 and 305 and the inner surface of diapire 9,209 and 309 form 135 ° of angles; First paragraph hollow cathode 11 inner diameter is 8 millimeters.Wall thickness is 1 millimeter; Reaction tube 14,214 and 314 inner diameter is 14 millimeters, and wall thickness is 2 millimeters; Length is 30 millimeters.The wall of described reaction tube 14,214 and 314 is made up of copper near top, and other regions are made up of steel, utilizes the water of the anchor ring gap high speed circulation between described wall and its protection overcoat to cool the wall of described reaction tube 14,214 and 314 simultaneously.Physical isolation is held with an insulating element 15,215 respectively between reaction tube 14,214 and anode 5,205.
Using coal tar used in the embodiment 1 carbonaceous material pan feeding as this comparative example 1, the coal tar of 300K is through hollow cathode 11, 14 with 214 hollow channel be introduced in described first paragraph together with argon carrier, in the chamber of second segment and the 3rd section, volume ratio is the argon hydrogen mixture working gas 4 of 4:6, 204 and 304 are also introduced in above-mentioned three chambers through its entrance, and be in plasma, in above-mentioned three chambers, coal tar and/or volatiles and plasmarized working gas are rapidly mixed in the region closing on arc column and are heated rapidly, and cause pyrolysis and the cracking reaction of coal tar, the particularly gas-phase reaction of volatiles.
Above-mentioned three sections of plasma reactor systems with hollow cathode are run: system pressure is 110kPa under following operating condition, the power output of first paragraph hollow cathode 11 and anode 5 is 5kW, the power output of second segment and the 3rd section of hollow cathode 14,214 and second segment and the 3rd section of anode 205,305 is all 10kW, coal tar flow 9kg/h, argon carrier flow is 125g/h, and the volume ratio being divided into the working gas 4,204 and 304 of impartial three parts is argon hydrogen mixture every part of flow of 4:6 is 430g/h.3000K is about at the regional temperature near arc column after argon hydrogen mixture is in plasma as working gas 4,204 and 304, coal tar and argon carrier pan feeding and/or volatiles enter above-mentioned three chambers from the hollow channel of three hollow cathodes 11,14 and 214, wherein, the hot-cast socket factor reaches about 86%, and high-temperature plasma air-flow enters in three reaction tubes 14,214 and 314 after efficiently mixing with coal tar and carrier gas pan feeding and/or volatiles.Water is injected in last reaction tube 314 through two shock chilling medium entrances 8 near pyrolysis product outlet 10, so as moment Quench or freeze formed reacting product stream.The total residence time of coal tar in reactor assembly is about 30 milliseconds.The energy efficiency of described reactor assembly is about 82%, that is, input power 82% by reacting product stream and for the water that cools plasma reactor wall absorb, the heat loss wherein caused by reaction tube is about 1.0kW.
Comparative example 2
Schematic diagram is that the reactor assembly of the descending plasma pyrolysis carbonaceous material of single hop closed-entry of Fig. 3 is used to coal tar is converted into acetylene and other chemicals.Adopt with the identical coal tar used in embodiment 1 as carbonaceous material pan feeding.
In the descending plasma reactor system of above-mentioned single hop closed-entry, producing the input power entering the plasma torch of the high-temperature plasma gas in reactor by its entrance 2 is 25kW, the argon hydrogen mixture of the working gas producing above-mentioned high-temperature plasma gas to be volume ratio be 4:6.
As shown in Figure 3, coal tar and argon carrier pan feeding 1 enter in reactor through the closed-entry passage of reactor head, wherein, coal tar and argon carrier pan feeding carry out rapid mixing and heat transfer in the reactor with the high-temperature plasma gas entered in reactor through its entrance 2, thus rapidly coal tar is heated, and its temperature is risen to cause Coal Tars reaction and cracking reaction temperature, particularly impel volatiles to carry out the temperature of gas-phase reaction, thus produce a large amount of cleavage reaction product, such as acetylene.
Cleavage reaction product, such as acetylene are entered the shock chilling medium Quench of reactor lower part through its entrance 3 or are freezed, and the outlet 4 finally by Quench product and gas is discharged reactor.
The descending plasma reactor system of above-mentioned single hop closed-entry runs under following operating condition: system pressure is 110kPa, the gross output of electrode is 25kW, coal tar flow 9kg/h, argon carrier flow is 125g/h, and the argon hydrogen mixture working gas flow for generation of above-mentioned high-temperature plasma gas is 1300g/h.Wherein, be about 3000K at the regional work gas temperature near arc column, the hot-cast socket factor is about 75%.
Coal tar, carrier gas and/or volatiles carry out rapid mixing with high-temperature plasma air-flow and after conducting heat, produce a large amount of cleavage reaction products in the descending plasma reactor of above-mentioned single hop closed-entry.Aqueous water is injected into reactor lower part as shock chilling medium through the shock chilling medium entrance 3 be positioned near pyrolysis product outlet 4, so as moment Quench or freeze formed cleavage reaction product stream 5, shock chilling medium-liquid velocity is 40kg/h.Coal tar total residence time is in the reactor about 30 milliseconds.The energy efficiency of described reactor is about 70% through measuring and calculating, that is, input power 70% by reacting product stream and for the water that cools plasma reactor wall absorb, the heat loss wherein caused by reaction tube is about 5kW.
The performance row of above-mentioned three dissimilar reactor assemblies in the following Table 2.
Table 2
Embodiment |
Embodiment 1 |
Comparative example 1 |
Comparative example 2 |
Reactor assembly type |
The present invention |
Three sections |
Single hop, reducing |
Acetylene yield, g/1kg coal tar |
413 |
453 |
193 |
Coking rate |
181 |
418 |
163 |
Energy efficiency, % |
80 |
82 |
70 |
SER,kWh/kg-C
2H
2 |
8.1 |
7.4 |
17.2 |
Methane production, g/kg coal tar |
165 |
56 |
76.9 |
Carbon monoxide productive rate, g/kg coal tar |
232 |
46 |
86.3 |
Carbon to gaseous product conversion ratio, % |
76.46 |
58.25 |
31.68 |
C in product stream
2H
2Volume ratio,
|
38.21 |
55.89 |
28.17 |
Volume % |
|
|
|
Coal tar conversion ratio, % |
97 |
98 |
56 |
The heat flow loss of reactor wall, kW |
4 |
1 |
5 |
In above-mentioned table 2, the electric power that SER refers to transmit with electrode is benchmark always than can demand (grossSpecific Energy Requirement); Carbon to gaseous product conversion ratio refers to the content ratio of carbon in carbon and coal tar in gaseous product; Energy efficiency refer to compared with input power by product stream and cooling water the relative populations of heat absorbed.
Experimental data from table 2: the reactor assembly (embodiment 1) of multistage plasma pyrolysis carbonaceous material of the present invention is compared with the reactor assembly (comparative example 2) of the existing reactor assembly (comparative example 1) and the descending plasma pyrolysis carbonaceous material of existing single hop closed-entry with three sections of plasma pyrolysis carbonaceous materials of hollow cathode, in the reactor assembly thermal efficiency (energy efficiency), good equilibrium is reached between cleavage reaction product (acetylene) yield and eliminative reaction wall surface coking (coking rate), overcome acetylene yield and energy efficiency in comparative example 1 completely high, but coking is serious and in comparative example 2 coking rate low, but the defect that acetylene yield and energy efficiency are not high.
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Although show and described several embodiment of the present invention, the present invention has not been restricted to described embodiment.On the contrary, those of ordinary skill in the art should recognize can carry out any accommodation and improvement to these embodiments when not departing from principle of the present invention and spirit, and protection scope of the present invention determined by appended claim and equivalent thereof.