EP1144302A1 - Cuve de reaction et procede permettant d'eliminer le monoxyde de carbone dans l'hydrogene - Google Patents

Cuve de reaction et procede permettant d'eliminer le monoxyde de carbone dans l'hydrogene

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EP1144302A1
EP1144302A1 EP99956238A EP99956238A EP1144302A1 EP 1144302 A1 EP1144302 A1 EP 1144302A1 EP 99956238 A EP99956238 A EP 99956238A EP 99956238 A EP99956238 A EP 99956238A EP 1144302 A1 EP1144302 A1 EP 1144302A1
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selective oxidation
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Peter Geoffrey Gray
John Frederick Pignon
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  • the present invention concerns an improved reactor, more particularly it concerns a reactor particularly adapted for and suitable for certain selective oxidation reactions.
  • the present invention provides a reactor for catalytic selective oxidation, comprising a reactor vessel with counter current cooling and at least one stage, each stage provided with an inlet for a first feedstock, e.g. CO contaminated hydrogen, an inlet for a second feedstock, e.g. oxygen-containing gas, gas mixing means and a catalytic reaction zone, preferably comprising a selective oxidation catalyst deposited on a substrate having good heat conduction properties.
  • a first feedstock e.g. CO contaminated hydrogen
  • a second feedstock e.g. oxygen-containing gas
  • gas mixing means e.g. oxygen-containing gas
  • the invention also provides a process for the removal of quantities of CO from a hydrogen feedstock by partial oxidation, comprising at least one step of admixing said feedstock with a quantity of oxygen, passing the resulting mixture over a selective oxidation catalyst in a selective oxidation zone and recovering a hydrogen product with reduced content of CO, whilst simultaneously cooling the selective oxidation zone, preferably to maintain the selective oxidation zone at a temperature in the range 100 to 250°C, by counter- current coolant flow.
  • the reactor in its most preferred embodiment, has four stages and this is effective to reduce a reformate having a CO content of 1 to 2% to below lOppm. In other embodiments, there may be 2 to 10 stages.
  • the reactor is suitably in the form of a vessel in which the reaction zones are generally annular in shape, and provided with internal and/or external liquid cooling. Cooling is preferably provided by internal cooling using water, which is suitably under pressure to prevent boiling at the temperatures generated. Other liquid coolants, or forced air cooling may be used if desired. According to specific reactor designs, heat removal may be enhanced by increasing heat exchange surface areas by corrugation or other established means. Heat removal may be altered by altering the flow of coolant and/or altering the quantity of heat removed from the coolant by means of a heat exchanger.
  • Each reaction zone suitably comprises a metallic catalyst support (“monolith”) of generally honeycomb construction, as is in common use in automobile exhaust gas catalysis. These may have 50 to 1200 cells per square in cell density, preferably 200 to 600 cpsi, and may be of a variety of types of stainless steel. In general, the present invention does not result in the reaction stages reaching the higher temperatures generally met with in exhaust gas catalysis (e.g. 500-900°C), but the material should be capable of resisting temperature excursions.
  • An alternative reaction zone design utilises what has become known as "static mixers" which combine a very high degree of gas agitation and mixing, resulting in non- laminar flow, with relatively low pressure drop. Such static mixers may be manufactured from a variety of metals and are commercially available. However, it is presently preferred to use a honeycomb monolith.
  • the reaction zone desirably carries a selective oxidation catalyst comprising a platinum group metal, especially comprising platinum and/or rhodium, carried on a high surface area metal oxide support, such as alumina.
  • a selective oxidation catalyst comprising a platinum group metal, especially comprising platinum and/or rhodium, carried on a high surface area metal oxide support, such as alumina.
  • the metallic catalyst support may be coated by generally known methods with a slurry of oxide support, dried and fired, and then impregnated with the catalytically active components, before a final firing. Such procedures are in themselves known, and do not form part of this invention.
  • An essentially cylindrical metal vessel made by pressing two halves and seam-welding, has a main gas inlet, 2, for reformate gas, and an outlet, 3, for cleaned gas.
  • the vessel has a number of annular reaction zones, 4, each consisting of an annular wound corrugated catalyst support.
  • the vessel further has an internal water jacket, 5, between a spacer and the shell and this is supplied with cooling water by means of a water circuit comprising a circulating pump, 6, and a heat exchanger, 7.
  • the heat exchanger is desirably used to recover heat in an integrated system e.g. in an integrated combined heat and power system.
  • the vessel further is provided with four air inlets, 8, each providing pre-determined (for a steady-state operation) levels of air (that is reaction oxygen; air is generally suitable).
  • controlled amounts of oxygen may be used downstream of each air inlet.
  • Zone 9a is suitably a static mixer, but zones 9b, 9c and 9d are preferably alternating annular mixing vanes, 10, and discs, 11, having gas flow holes, as illustrated in Figs 2 and 3. It should be noted that for simplicity only four vanes and four holes are shown, but more, e.g. six or eight, may be used.
  • vanes and discs may be manufactured by pressing to form a sleeve which may be fitted and brazed or welded onto the jacket 5 with the intention that each gas mixing zone also serves to remove hear from the reaction gases leaving each reaction zone.
  • each reaction zone may incorporate different and/or different loadings, of catalyst.
  • Each metal catalyst support monolith suitably has 300-400 cells per sq.in. and is coated with a washcoat comprising ⁇ 36wt% alumina solids of D50 of approx 5 ⁇ m and D90 of approx 16 ⁇ m, to deposit approx 3g/m 3 . After drying and firing, the coated monolith was impregnated with a platinum salt solution to result in 5% by wt of Pt deposited on the alumina. The resulting coated monolith was again dried and fired before being assembled into the reactor.
  • the reactor of the invention is compact and exhibits relatively low pressure drop. Manufacturing costs are relatively low.
  • the reactor is believed to be suitable for mobile or automobile uses as well as stationery uses. It is presently envisaged that the reactor shell will be lagged to control heat loss and prevent injury.
  • the reactor can be manufactured simply and inexpensively, using pressed and welded parts. It is desirably operated to achieve low pressure drop, and the particular embodiment illustrated is designed for a gas hourly space velocity of approx. 30,000h " ' gas throughput.
  • the reactor as described may be altered in a variety of ways without departing from the central inventive concept.
  • the invention is now illustrated below in a working example of a two-stage reactor, fed with a synthetic reformate gas mixture containing N 2 , H 2 , CO, CO 2 and H O.
  • Each of the two stages consists of a mixing zone with three off-set spiral vanes, followed by air injection accomplished through a number of apertures in an annular ring, producing a swirling, mixing gas.
  • the thus mixed hydrogen and air mixture passes through an annular metal honeycomb support mounted on a central cooling jacket.
  • the cooling jacket is fed counter-current to the flow of hydrogen with a heat transfer fluid, conveniently water under pressure, and the metal honeycomb support is mounted in good heat exchange contact with the cooling jacket.
  • the metal honeycomb carries a selective oxidation catalyst.
  • Gas may be extracted for analysis between the two stages and/or after the second stage.
  • the test two-stage reactor can model a three or four stage reactor.
  • the detailed operating conditions and other experimental detail for one typical run of the above reactor now follow. It was remarkable that the pressure drop across the whole of the est reactor was about the measurement limit of the gauges being used, and was of the order of 1.5-3mbar (150-300Pa), at the two throughputs tested. This indicates that the reactor is very efficient, compact and requires very little energy to operate.
  • Each catalyst support was an annular of internal diameter 3.85in (9.78cm), external diameter 5.85in (14,86cm) and 3.0in(7.62cm) length, made from "Fecralloy" steel and having 500 cells per sq in.
  • Each support had been washcoated with alumina washcoat as used in exhaust gas catalytic convertors, followed by loading with 5% by wt of the alumina of Pt. Conventional manufacturing techniques were used.
  • the synthetic reformate had the compositions: 48%N 2 (dry), 40%H 2 (dry), 10%CO 2 (dry), 0.5-1.5%CO (dry) and 13% H 2 O (of total flow).

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Abstract

L'invention concerne une cuve de réaction (1) à un ou plusieurs étages d'oxydation sélective, avec refroidissement en contre-courant (5, 6, 7), chaque étage ayant une admission pour charge du type hydrogène contaminé par CO (2), une admission pour seconde charge du type oxygène ou air (8) un système de mélange de gaz (9a, 9b) et une zone de réaction catalytique (4), renfermant de préférence un support métallique à catalyseur d'oxydation sélective. Ce type de reformeur compact à chute de pression très basse est approprié à la production d'hydrogène pour une pile à combustible.
EP99956238A 1998-12-01 1999-11-29 Cuve de reaction et procede permettant d'eliminer le monoxyde de carbone dans l'hydrogene Withdrawn EP1144302A1 (fr)

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