Organic liquid integrated energy system capable of efficiently recovering heat
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of organic liquid hydrogen storage, and particularly relates to an organic liquid integrated energy system.
Background
The hydrogen energy is used as a new energy mode with bright prospect, and the existing energy storage technology such as a lithium ion battery is replaced by the advantages of high energy density, cleanness, no pollution and the like.
The large-scale utilization of hydrogen energy presents more challenges, and the current major hydrogen storage methods have various disadvantages. The high-pressure gaseous hydrogen storage is widely applied and has low cost, but hydrogen charging and discharging need a high-pressure environment and potential safety hazards exist; the metal hydride has safe and stable hydrogen storage and lower pressure, but the metal hydride has large mass, and the hydrogen charging and discharging process is limited by the heat and mass transfer capacity, so the metal hydride is not suitable for being applied in the field of mobile traffic; the low-temperature liquid hydrogen storage has higher energy density and is a hot technology in the field of aerospace, but the technology has high cost and complex technology and is difficult to store hydrogen for a long time.
The organic liquid hydrogen storage technology has high energy density, is safe and stable, is convenient for large-scale long-distance transportation, and is the key point of hydrogen energy development in the future. The organic liquid hydrogen storage material represented by ethyl carbazole needs a system to provide considerable heat in the hydrogen discharge process, and for many application scenarios, the selection of a heat source is the key to the application of the organic hydrogen storage technology. At present, the common technology adopts electric heating for heat supply, the electric energy of a heater is obtained from a fuel cell, but the power generation efficiency of the fuel cell is only 40% -55%, a large amount of waste heat is wasted, electricity is converted into heat, and the energy efficiency of the system is further reduced. Application number 201910537030.9 discloses a dehydrogenation device based on hydrogen catalytic combustion heating, adopts the mode of hydrogen burning to the dehydrogenation reactor heat supply, and efficiency improves to some extent than the electric heating scheme, but has wasted partly heat quality among the combustion process, and the system efficiency has certain promotion space.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide an organic liquid integrated energy system for efficient heat recovery, which mainly solves the problem that equipment lacking an external heat source is difficult to store and supply energy by applying an organic liquid hydrogen storage technology.
In order to solve the technical problems, the technical defects to be overcome by the invention are as follows: how to select a heat source for the organic hydrogen storage material in the hydrogen discharging process.
The invention adopts the following technical scheme:
an organic liquid integrated energy system comprises a storage unit, a heat exchange unit, a dehydrogenation reaction unit, a gas-liquid separation unit, a power generation unit and a heat pump unit which are sequentially connected from front to back;
the storage unit is used for storing hydrogen-rich organic liquid and hydrogen-poor organic liquid;
hydrogen-rich organic liquid provided by the storage unit enters the dehydrogenation reaction unit after being preheated in the heat exchange unit;
the hydrogen-rich liquid in the dehydrogenation reaction unit generates endothermic dehydrogenation reaction, and the heat required by the dehydrogenation reaction is provided by the heat pump unit;
reaction products in the dehydrogenation reaction unit enter the gas-liquid separation unit, the gas-liquid separation unit separates the reaction products into hydrogen and organic liquid poor in hydrogen, and the organic liquid poor in hydrogen is sequentially introduced into the heat exchange unit and the organic liquid poor in hydrogen storage tank in the storage unit; said hydrogen is pumped into said power generation unit;
the power generation unit mainly comprises a proton exchange membrane fuel cell, air and hydrogen react in the power generation unit to generate power, one part of generated electric energy is input into the heat pump unit, and the other part of generated electric energy is output to the outside.
The beneficial technical effects directly brought by the technical scheme are as follows:
by arranging the heat pump unit, waste heat generated in the power generation unit is collected, and the collected heat can be used in dehydrogenation reaction of the dehydrogenation reaction unit without additionally heating the dehydrogenation reaction unit.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the heat pump unit includes an absorption heat pump unit and a vapor compression heat pump unit, and the absorption heat pump unit and the vapor compression heat pump unit convert waste heat generated by the power generation unit into a heat source with sufficient heat and supply the heat source to the dehydrogenation reaction unit.
As another preferable aspect of the present invention, the storage unit includes a hydrogen-rich organic liquid storage tank and a hydrogen-poor organic liquid storage tank; the heat exchange unit adopts a shell-and-tube heat exchanger with heat load of 23.55 MJ/h.
Preferably, the dehydrogenation reaction unit is a porous medium fixed bed reactor, works at the temperature of 160-170 ℃, and adopts Pd/Al2O3Porous medium catalyst filled with inert substance Al2O3The space velocity of the reactor is 1.1h-1The flow rate of organic liquid in the dehydrogenation process is 750mol/h, and the flow rate of hydrogen is 100Nm3/h。
Further preferably, the generating efficiency of the generating unit is 50%, the electric energy is output at 532MJ/h, and the waste heat is generated at 320 MJ/h.
Preferably, the heat pump unit mainly controls the working range through the electric energy provided by the power generation unit; under the rated working condition, the heat pump unit needs 64MJ/h of electricity, and the power generation unit supplies 12% of electric energy to the heat pump unit, so that the heat pump unit provides a heat source with heat load of 230MJ/h at about 180 ℃.
Preferably, the absorption heat pump unit is a lithium bromide/water second-class single-effect absorption heat pump, wherein the working temperature of an absorber is 120-150 ℃, the heat load is 177MJ/h, the working temperatures of an evaporator and a generator are 70-90 ℃, the working temperature of a condenser is 160-190 ℃, and the COP is 1.2-1.4.
Preferably, the vapor compression heat pump unit adopts a high-temperature refrigerant R11, wherein the working temperature of an evaporator is 110-130 ℃, the working temperature of a condenser is 170-190 ℃, the COP is 1.28, and a heat source with 230MJ/h heat load is provided.
The organic liquid is N-ethyl carbazole organic hydrogen storage liquid, the hydrogen-rich organic liquid is dodecahydro ethyl carbazole, and the flow rate of the hydrogen-rich organic liquid is 750 mol/h.
The invention also aims to provide application of the organic liquid integrated energy system in an energy storage power station.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial technical effects:
the invention utilizes waste heat generated in the fuel cell through the two-stage heat pump unit, does not need an external heat source to supply a hydrogen discharge process, improves the overall energy efficiency, has obvious efficiency improvement compared with the modes of electric heating or hydrogen catalytic combustion and the like, improves the power generation effect by more than 15 to 23 percent compared with the hydrogen catalytic combustion scheme, and is a novel technical scheme with wide application range and higher energy storage efficiency.
The system disclosed by the invention does not need external heat supply, is high in energy storage density, safe and environment-friendly, and is suitable for energy storage power stations and other application scenes pursuing energy efficiency.
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The invention is further described below with reference to the accompanying drawings:
FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an efficient heat recovery organic liquid integrated energy system according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a working condition cycle pressure-enthalpy diagram of the compression heat pump according to the present invention;
in the figure: 1. the device comprises a storage unit, 2, a heat exchange unit, 3, a dehydrogenation reaction unit, 4, a gas-liquid separation unit, 5, a power generation unit, 6, a heat pump unit, 7, a vapor compression type heat pump unit, 8, an absorption type heat pump unit, 9, a hydrogen-rich organic liquid storage tank, 10 and a hydrogen-poor organic liquid storage tank.
a-b is a compression process
b-c are condensation processes
c-d is a throttling process
d-a is the evaporation process.
Detailed Description
The invention provides an organic liquid integrated energy system for efficient heat recovery, and in order to make the advantages and technical scheme of the invention clearer and clearer, the invention is described in detail with reference to specific embodiments.
As shown in fig. 1, the invention provides an organic liquid integrated energy system for efficient heat recovery, which comprises a storage unit 1, a heat exchange unit 2, a dehydrogenation unit 3, a gas-liquid separation unit 4, a power generation unit 5 and a heat pump unit 6 which are sequentially connected from the storage unit to the heat exchange unit 2.
Wherein the storage unit 1 comprises a hydrogen-rich organic liquid storage tank 9 and a hydrogen-poor organic liquid storage tank 10, wherein a specific hydrogen-rich organic hydrogen storage liquid is stored in the hydrogen-rich organic liquid storage tank 9, and a hydrogen-poor organic hydrogen storage liquid is stored in the hydrogen-poor organic liquid storage tank 10;
the hydrogen-rich organic liquid storage tank 9 and the hydrogen-poor organic liquid storage tank 10 are respectively connected with the heat exchange unit 2, specifically, the heat exchange unit 2 is composed of a plate-fin heat exchanger and a corresponding pump valve, the specific structure of the plate-fin heat exchanger refers to the prior art, and detailed description is omitted here.
Pumping the hydrogen-rich organic liquid out of the hydrogen-rich organic liquid storage tank 9, preheating the hydrogen-rich organic liquid by the heat exchange unit 2, entering the dehydrogenation reaction unit 3, entering a gas-liquid mixture obtained by the dehydrogenation reaction unit 3 into the gas-liquid separation unit 4, separating the hydrogen-rich organic liquid by the gas-liquid separation unit 4, cooling the obtained hydrogen-poor organic liquid by the heat exchange unit 2, entering the hydrogen-poor organic liquid storage tank 10 for storage, and waiting for later-stage circulation treatment; the hydrogen obtained after separation by the gas-liquid separation unit 4 enters a power generation unit.
The general structure of the dehydrogenation reaction unit 3 is as follows: the device comprises a dehydrogenation reactor, a heat exchanger, a corresponding pump valve and an electric control device, wherein the specific structure of each device refers to the prior art, the hydrogen-rich organic liquid in the dehydrogenation reaction unit 3 is subjected to endothermic dehydrogenation reaction, the heat required by heat absorption is obtained from the heat pump unit 6, the obtained heat is supplied to the dehydrogenation process, and the reaction product reaches the gas-liquid separation unit 4;
reaction products in the gas-liquid separation unit 4 are separated into hydrogen and hydrogen-poor organic liquid, the hydrogen-poor liquid returns to the hydrogen-poor organic liquid storage tank 10 through the heat exchange unit, and the hydrogen is pumped into the power generation unit 5;
the power generation unit 5 mainly comprises a proton exchange membrane fuel cell and comprises a corresponding heat exchanger, a pipe fitting and an electric control device, air and hydrogen react in the power generation unit 5 to generate electricity, a part of generated electric energy is input into the heat pump unit 6 to support the normal work of the vapor compression type heat pump 7, and most of the electric energy is output to the outside to supply other electric appliances for work; the heat pump unit 6 mainly comprises an absorption heat pump unit 8 and a vapor compression heat pump unit 7, and waste heat obtained from the power generation unit 6 is converted into a high-quality and sufficient-heat source through two stages of heat pumps in sequence and finally supplied to the dehydrogenation reaction unit 3.
According to the organic liquid integrated energy system for efficient heat recovery, the organic liquid is N-ethylcarbazole organic hydrogen storage liquid, the hydrogen-rich liquid is dodecahydroethylcarbazole, and the flow rate of the hydrogen-rich organic liquid is 750 mol/h.
In the organic liquid integrated energy system for efficient heat recovery, the dehydrogenation reaction unit 3 is a porous medium fixed bed reactor, works at the temperature of 160-170 ℃, and adopts Pd/Al2O3Porous medium catalyst filled with inert substance Al2O3The space velocity of the reactor is 1.1h-1The flow rate of organic liquid in the dehydrogenation process is 750mol/h, and the flow rate of hydrogen is 100Nm3/h。
In the organic liquid integrated energy system for efficient heat recovery, the heat exchange unit 2 adopts a shell-and-tube heat exchanger with heat load 23.55 MJ/h.
According to the organic liquid integrated energy system for efficient heat recovery, the power generation unit 5 adopts a proton exchange membrane hydrogen fuel cell, the power generation efficiency is 50%, the electric energy is output at 532MJ/h, and the waste heat is generated at 320 MJ/h.
In the organic liquid integrated energy system for efficient heat recovery, the heat pump unit 6 mainly controls the working range through the electric energy provided by the power generation unit 5; under a rated working condition, the heat pump unit 6 needs 64MJ/h of electricity, and the power generation unit supplies 12% of electric energy to the heat pump unit 6, so that the heat pump unit provides a heat source with heat load of 230MJ/h at about 180 ℃;
in the organic liquid integrated energy system for efficient heat recovery, the absorption heat pump 8 in the heat pump unit 6 is a lithium bromide/water second-type single-effect absorption heat pump, wherein the working range of the absorber is about 130 ℃, the heat load is 177MJ/h, the working ranges of the evaporator and the generator are about 80 ℃, the working range of the condenser is about 25 ℃, and the COP is 0.56; a vapor compression heat pump 7 in a heat pump unit 6 adopts a high-temperature refrigerant R11, wherein the working range of an evaporator is about 120 ℃, the working range of a condenser is about 180 ℃, the COP is 1.28, a heat source with 230MJ/h heat load is provided, and the temperature-enthalpy diagram of the system is shown in figure 2;
according to the organic liquid integrated energy system for efficient heat recovery, the chemical energy of the product hydrogen obtained by dehydrogenation is 1079MJ/h, the integral power generation power of a power supply system is 470MJ/h, the power generation efficiency is 44%, and the power generation efficiency is improved by 23% compared with that of a catalytic combustion system.
The operation of the above system of the present invention is explained below.
The method specifically comprises the following steps:
firstly, pumping out hydrogen-rich organic liquid from a hydrogen-rich organic liquid storage tank, pretreating the hydrogen-rich organic liquid by a heat exchange unit, then entering a dehydrogenation reaction unit, and carrying out dehydrogenation reaction under the action of a catalyst in the dehydrogenation reaction unit to obtain a gas-liquid mixture;
secondly, the obtained gas-liquid mixture enters a gas-liquid separation unit, the gas-liquid separation unit is used for separating, the separated hydrogen-poor liquid is cooled by a heat exchange unit and enters a hydrogen-poor organic liquid storage tank for storage, and the later cycle treatment is waited;
pumping the hydrogen obtained by the gas-liquid separation unit into a power generation unit, reacting air and the hydrogen in the power generation unit to generate power, inputting a part of generated electric energy into a heat pump unit to support the operation of a vapor compression heat pump, and outputting most of the generated electric energy to the outside to supply other electric appliances for operation; waste heat obtained from the power generation unit is converted into a high-quality and sufficient-heat source through two stages of heat pumps in sequence and is finally supplied to the dehydrogenation reaction unit.
Parts which are not described in the invention can be realized by adopting or referring to the prior art.
Although terms such as the storage unit 1, the heat exchange unit 2, the dehydrogenation reaction unit 3, the gas-liquid separation unit 4, etc. are used more frequently herein, the possibility of using other terms is not excluded, and these terms are used only for the purpose of more conveniently describing and explaining the essence of the present invention; they are to be construed as being without limitation to any additional limitations that may be imposed by the spirit of the present invention.
It is further understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the spirit of the invention. Various modifications or additions may be made to the described embodiments or alternatives may be employed by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit or ambit of the invention as defined in the appended claims.