EP0095237B1 - Procédé d'hydrogination de combustibles carbonés solides - Google Patents

Procédé d'hydrogination de combustibles carbonés solides Download PDF

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EP0095237B1
EP0095237B1 EP83301913A EP83301913A EP0095237B1 EP 0095237 B1 EP0095237 B1 EP 0095237B1 EP 83301913 A EP83301913 A EP 83301913A EP 83301913 A EP83301913 A EP 83301913A EP 0095237 B1 EP0095237 B1 EP 0095237B1
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C10—PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; PEAT
    • C10G—CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS; PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVE HYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION; RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, OR GASES; REFINING MIXTURES MAINLY CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBONS; REFORMING OF NAPHTHA; MINERAL WAXES
    • C10G1/00—Production of liquid hydrocarbon mixtures from oil-shale, oil-sand, or non-melting solid carbonaceous or similar materials, e.g. wood, coal
    • C10G1/06—Production of liquid hydrocarbon mixtures from oil-shale, oil-sand, or non-melting solid carbonaceous or similar materials, e.g. wood, coal by destructive hydrogenation

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  • the invention relates to the hydrogenation of solid carbonaceous fuels and in particular to a process for the manufacture of hydrocarbon- containing fuel gases and/or hydrocarbon liquids from solid carbonaceous fuels by reaction with hydrogen-containing gas in an entrained flow system.
  • Coals and coal-like substances are not homogeneous. Some part of their constituent matter reacts more readily with hydrogen than does the remainder; consequently hydrogenation generally leaves a residue which requires more severe conditions for further reaction. Nevertheless, rapid reaction of a large part of the carbon in such fuels can be achieved and is facilitated if the fuel is in a finely divided state and is brought quickly to reaction temperature.
  • suspension gasifiers i.e. fluidised and entrained flow systems
  • These gasifiers operate at high temperatures and pressures with gas residence times ranging from a few seconds to fractions of a second.
  • fluidised gasifiers In fluidised gasifiers, recirculation of solids within the bed leads to good thermal stability, allowing reaction to be initiated with relatively little reactants preheat and thus enabling the preheat to be determined solely by overall thermal balance considerations.
  • Superficial velocities typically 0.03-1.5 mls sec- 1 , are low compared with 4.5 mls sec-1 or more in entrained flow systems, however, and this limits the ability of fluidised gasifiers to exploit the rapid reaction rates and achieve high gasifier throughputs.
  • Fluidised gasifiers also impose a limit on the proportion of very small material in the feed size range in order to avoid excessive carry-over of fines.
  • the coal is injected into the reactor at low temperature and then heated by rapid mixing with injected hot hydrogen.
  • Requisite heat is supplied by preheating the gaseous hydrogen to a substantially higher injection temperature than the mixed reactants temperature required to initiate sustained hydrogenation.
  • Substantially more hydrogen is fed to the reactor than is consumed in the hydrogenation reaction.
  • Excess hydrogen is needed to favour methane synthesis and to supply the coal-heating function.
  • Conventional heat exchangers can be used to preheat the hydrogen to about 815°C and the final increment of heat is provided by partial oxidation with a small amount of injected oxygen.
  • Co-current flow of reactants in entrained flow gasifiers is the cause of some disadvantageous features, the elimination of which would substantially improve process efficiency.
  • One such feature an obvious source of inefficiency, is the use of excess preheated hydrogen-containing gas to heat the pulverised coal to initiate reaction. It is proposed that by reducing this excess, would lead to higher preheat temperatures.
  • Another such feature is the injection of oxygen. But the need for oxygen injection arises because the preheat requirements generally exceed what is possible with conventional indirect heaters. Thus it is most probable that minimising the hydrogen provision would increase oxygen consumption, increasing the capital costs and fuel requirements of the oxygen production unit associated with the gasifier. Furthermore, partial combustion with oxygen leads to the formation of significant amounts of carbon oxides and, hence, a reduced degree of conversion of carbon to methane.
  • the object of the invention is to avoid the disadvantages which result from co-current flow of the reactants in entrained flow gasifiers.
  • the invention provides a continuous process for the hydrogenation of carbonaceous fuels wherein said fuel and a gas comprising hydrogen are continuously introduced into a thermally insulated reaction chamber so constructed as to define an endless path along which reactants and reaction products can circulate within the chamber and said fuel and said gas comprising hydrogen are admixed and introduced in the form of at least one jet through orifice means into the reaction chamber to cause a substantial amount of an admixture of reactants and reaction products to circulate continuously around the said endless path characterised in that said fuel is solid particulate carbonaceous material transported in a stream of a hydrogen containing gas whose temperature is not greater than 200°C and wherein a portion of the reaction products is continuously withdrawn from the chamber, sufficient remaining in the chamber to permit adequate recirculation to support reaction of the fuel particles and produce a reaction product whose temperature is not less than 700°C.
  • reaction products' may include products of incomplete reaction and unreacted reactants.
  • operating temperatures in the reaction chamber may be maintained, without oxygen injection by employing only moderate preheat temperatures.
  • the temperature of said mixture of fuel and gas comprising hydrogen can be lower than that required to initiate and sustain reaction in an conventional entrained flow gasifier.
  • Incoming reactants are then raised to a high enough temperature for reaction to begin as they become mixed with hotter recycled products.
  • Hydrogen-containing gas suitable for use in the process may be provided by known methods, for example, by reacting hydrocarbons or carbonaceous materials with steam or with steam and oxygen to give mixtures of hydrogen and oxides of carbon. Known methods may then be used, if desired, to increase the hydrogen content of such mixtures. It is envisaged that incompletely reacted particles of solid fuel from the process of the invention itself may be so reacted to provide hydrogenating gas.
  • the proportion of hydrogen to be supplied in relation to the solid fuel will depend on the composition of the solid fuel, the composition of the hydrogenating gas, the nature of the products desired and the extent to which the solid fuel reacts but will generally lie within the range of weight ratios from 0.1:1 to 1:1.
  • the hydrogen/coal ratio should lie within the range from 0.2:1 to 0.5:1.
  • the stream of hydrogen-containing gas, transporting the particles of solid fuel into the reaction chamber may but need not be gently preheated up to a maximum temperature of 200°C. Above this temperature the effect of heat on the particles of solid fuel is such as to make their transportation increasingly difficult and eventually impossible.
  • limitations on the preheat temperature of the gas comprising hydrogen arise solely from the design criteria which govern the construction of fired heaters for operation at high pressure. It is a feature of the invention that the required preheat temperatures of the gas comprising hydrogen are comfortably within the capabilities of heaters which can be constructed using known, present day technology. That is to say, in general, that the preheat temperature need not exceed about 800°C and can be substantially lower. In the manufacture of SNG from coal, it is preferred that the gas comprising hydrogen should be preheated to a temperature within the range from 600 to 800°C.
  • the circulation of gas within the reaction chamber is caused by the transfer of momentum from the rapidly moving stream or streams of reactants entering the reaction chamber to the products already in the reaction chamber.
  • the magnitude of the circulatory effect may be specified in terms of the recirculation ratio, that is to say, the ratio of the volume of gas circulating within the reaction chamber to the volume of gas withdrawn from the reaction chamber during one complete period of the circulatory motion.
  • recirculation ratios in the region of 2:1, suffice to enable temperatures, of the mixed reactants and products to be obtained which are well above the temperature at which the exothermic reaction is initiated.
  • the use of higher recirculation ratios will lead to greater temperature uniformity within the reaction chamber and, consequently, will influence the nature of the reaction products. Whether it is desirable to use higher recirculation ratios will largely depend on what products the process is required to produce. In the manufacture of SNG from coal it is preferred that the recirculation ratio should lie within the range from 2:1 to 10:1.
  • the process of the invention in the production of both gaseous and liquid products, is not pressure sensitive, although it is preferred that the process be carried out at pressures in excess of 5 bars.
  • reaction temperature is preferably between 800°C and 1000°C with a residence time ranging between 0.01 to 5 seconds depending upon both the reaction temperature and the nature of the carbonaceous fuel.
  • a typical residence time would be about 0.1 second.
  • the reaction chamber advantageously comprises a generally cylindrical thermally insulated vessel having mounted coaxially within it a hollow cylindrical member, optionally taking the form of a venturi, which is shorter than the internal length of the vessel and which divides the interior of the reaction chamber into an inner region within the cylindrical member and an outer region of annular cross-section, the two regions being in communication with each other beyond the ends of the hollow cylindrical member to form the aforesaid endless path, and orifice means arranged to introduce the reactants at or close to one end of the vessel and axially towards the other end of the vessel.
  • the rapidly moving stream of reactants entering the reaction chamber passes along the inner region of the chamber, carrying reaction products already in the chamber along with it, and the moving body of gas and entrained particles then returns along the outer region of the chamber to the vicinity of the orifice means where it receives fresh impetus from the stream of reactants leaving the orifice means and starts a further cycle of the circulatory movement.

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  1. Procédé continu pour l'hydrogénation de combustibles carbonés, dans lequel ledit combustible et un gaz comprenant de l'hydrogène sont introduits en continu dans une chambre de réaction isolée thermiquement, construite de façon à définir un circuit fermé le long duquel des corps réactionnels et des produits de réaction peuvent circuler à l'intérieur de la chambre et ledit combustible et ledit gaz comprenant de l'hydrogène sont mélangés et introduits sous la forme d'au moins un jet par des moyens à orifices dans la chambre de réaction afin de provoquer la circulation continue, le long dudit circuit fermé, d'une quantité importante d'un mélange de corps réactionnels et de produits de réaction, caractérisé en ce que ledit combustible est une matière carbonée en particules solides transportée dans un courant d'un gaz contenant de l'hydrogène dont la température n'est pas supérieure à 200°C, et dans lequel une partie des produits de réaction est retirée en continu de la chambre, une quantité suffisante restant dans la chambre pour permettre une recirculation convenable pour supporter la réaction des particules de combustible et donner un produit de réaction dont la température n'est pas inférieure à 700°C.
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