US20080134666A1 - Systems and Methods Using an Unmixed Fuel Processor - Google Patents

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US20080134666A1
US20080134666A1 US11/609,109 US60910906A US2008134666A1 US 20080134666 A1 US20080134666 A1 US 20080134666A1 US 60910906 A US60910906 A US 60910906A US 2008134666 A1 US2008134666 A1 US 2008134666A1
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  • This application relates generally to unmixed fuel processors, and more particularly, to systems and methods for producing electricity and/or hydrogen using unmixed fuel processors.
  • U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,339,754, 5,509,362, and 5,827,496, disclose a method of burning fuels using a catalyst that is readily reduced when in an oxidized state and readily oxidized when in a reduced state, with the fuel and air being alternatively contacted with the catalyst.
  • the fuel reduces the catalyst and is oxidized to carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and water vapor.
  • CO 2 carbon dioxide
  • the air oxidizes the catalyst and becomes depleted of oxygen. Combustion can thereby be effected without the need of mixing the fuel and air prior to or during the combustion process. If means are provided whereby the CO 2 and water vapor and the oxygen depleted air can be directed in different directions as they leave the combustion process, the mixing of fuel and air can be completely avoided.
  • This particular method of combustion has become known in the art as “unmixed combustion”.
  • a system for using an unmixed fuel processor comprises: an unmixed fuel processor and a power generating unit.
  • the unmixed fuel processor comprises: a gasification reactor, an oxidation reactor and a regeneration reactor.
  • the gasification reactor has a solid hydrocarbon fuel inlet, water inlet, and hydrogen outlet, and comprises a CO 2 sorbent material.
  • the oxidation reactor has an air inlet and effluent outlet, and comprises an oxygen transfer material.
  • the regeneration reactor has a CO 2 stream outlet and is configured to receive spent CO 2 sorbent material from the gasification reactor and to return regenerated CO 2 sorbent material to the gasification reactor, and configured to receive oxidized oxygen transfer material from the oxidation reactor and to return reduced oxygen transfer material to the oxidation reactor.
  • the power generating unit configured to receive an oxygen depleted stream from the oxidation reactor and to produce electricity.
  • a method for using an unmixed fuel processor comprises: gasifying a solid hydrocarbon fuel with water, capturing CO 2 with a CO 2 sorbent material to produce a spent CO 2 sorbent material and a hydrogen stream comprising hydrogen, oxidizing an oxygen transfer material and producing an oxygen depleted stream in an oxidation reactor, regenerating the spent CO 2 sorbent material and the oxidized oxygen transfer material and producing a CO 2 stream, and generating electricity in a power generating unit with the oxygen depleted stream.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of an exemplary embodiment of an unmixed fuel processor (UFP) system.
  • UFP unmixed fuel processor
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an exemplary embodiment of an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) polygeneration plant including CO 2 capture.
  • IGCC integrated gasification combined cycle
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of an exemplary embodiment of an unmixed fuel processor polygen system with CO 2 separation.
  • FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of an exemplary embodiment of unmixed fuel processor polygen system with combustion of the PSA off-gas.
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of an exemplary embodiment of unmixed fuel processor polygen system with use of the H 2 and the CO 2 and/or N 2
  • FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of an exemplary embodiment of unmixed fuel processor polygen system with CO 2 separation for electricity generation at low pressure.
  • Integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) technology is well suited to better meet the needs for power generation from coal more cleanly than other technologies. It is also compatible with carbon sequestration and production of hydrogen fuel. Also, since unmixed fuel processor (UFP) technology offers the potential for reduced cost, increased process efficiency, and/or lower emissions relative to other gasification and combustion systems, a combination of the combined cycle (CC) and UFP technologies could be improve efficiency in an environmentally friendly fashion. This combined technology could be employed in conjunction with fuel cells and/or with additional plants (e.g., urea and/or ammonia generating plants) to produce electricity, urea, and/or ammonia, while also producing a stream that is ripe for CO 2 sequestration.
  • additional plants e.g., urea and/or ammonia generating plants
  • FIG. 1 schematically illustrates an unmixed fuel processor 80 and the flows therein.
  • solid hydrocarbon fuel e.g., coal, biomass, etc.
  • water e.g., steam
  • air are converted into separate streams of hydrogen-rich gas in a gasification reactor 28 , CO 2 -rich gas that can be sent for sequestration in a regeneration reactor 30 , and oxygen-depleted (vitiated) air in the oxidation reactor 32 (at high temperature (e.g., about 1,100° C.
  • the UFP technology captures CO 2 at a high temperature (about 600° C. to about 1,200° C., or, more specifically, about 750° C. to about 1,100° C.) and high pressure (about 1 atmospheres (atm) to about 60 atm, or, more specifically, about 20 atm) using CO 2 sorbent material. Further, as fuel and air are not mixed together and also because of the lower gas turbine inlet temperature (e.g., temperatures of less than or equal to about 1,300° C. compared to about 1,400° C. for other gas turbine systems), the UFP process can produce lower amounts of pollutants such as NOx as compared to a non-UFP process.
  • the lower gas turbine inlet temperature e.g., temperatures of less than or equal to about 1,300° C. compared to about 1,400° C. for other gas turbine systems
  • the UFP technology concept generally uses three circulating fluidized bed reactors containing CO 2 sorbent material and oxygen transfer material (OTM).
  • CO 2 sorbent material e.g., metal oxide and/or metal carbonate systems based on elements such as calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), sodium (Na), lithium (Li), silicon (Si), as well as combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing
  • the OTM is a metal oxide (e.g., an oxide of iron, nickel, copper, manganese, and so forth, as well as combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing), which can be oxidized to form metal oxides (OTM-O).
  • a mixture of the bed materials is present in each reactor, and the bed materials undergo a variety of transformations and reactions as they move from one reactor to another.
  • Each reactor serves a different key purpose: gasification, CO 2 release, or oxidation.
  • the gasification reactor 28 initially gasifies solid hydrocarbon fuel (e.g., coal and/or other fossil fuels containing elements C, H, O, as well as combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing); coal (e.g., pulverized coal) fed to this is partially gasified with water (e.g., superheated steam) to produce H 2 , CO, and CO 2 .
  • solid hydrocarbon fuel e.g., coal and/or other fossil fuels containing elements C, H, O, as well as combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing
  • coal e.g., pulverized coal
  • water e.g., superheated steam
  • Conditions in the gasification reactor e.g., a temperature of about 600° C. to about 900° C., or, more particularly, about 750° C. to about 850° C.; and a pressure of about 1 atm to about 60 atm, or, more particularly, about 15 atm to about 20 atm
  • CO 2 sorbent material
  • the circulation of bed materials provides a continuous supply of fresh CO 2 sorbent material from and transfers spent CO 2 sorbent material to the regeneration reactor 30 .
  • the regeneration reactor 30 is the location of CO 2 release from spent CO 2 sorbent material (sorbent-CO 2 +heat ⁇ sorbent+CO 2 ), thereby regenerating the CO 2 sorbent.
  • Regeneration occurs as the hot bed material (oxygen transfer material, e.g., at a temperature of about 1,100 to about 1,300° C.) transferred from the oxidation reactor 32 heats regeneration reactor 30 , increasing the bed temperature to a sufficient level for CO 2 release; e.g., to a temperature of about 900° C. to about 1,100° C. (e.g., at a pressure of about 1 atm to about 20 atm).
  • the CO 2 release generates a CO 2 -rich product stream suitable for sequestration.
  • the oxidized oxygen transfer material from oxidation reactor 32 is reduced by the sygnas generated from gasification of char as it provides the oxygen needed to oxidize CO to CO 2 and H 2 to H 2 O.
  • the reduced oxygen transfer material is oxidized in oxidation reactor 32 :
  • the oxidation reactor 32 produces high-temperature (temperature of about 1,100° C. to about 1,300° C.), high-pressure (e.g., a pressure of greater than or equal to about 15 atm, or, more particularly, about 15 atm to about 20 atm) oxygen-depleted (vitiated) air for use in a gas turbine expander, as well as generating heat that is transferred to gasification reactor 28 and regeneration reactor 30 , via solid transfer.
  • high-temperature temperature of about 1,100° C. to about 1,300° C.
  • high-pressure e.g., a pressure of greater than or equal to about 15 atm, or, more particularly, about 15 atm to about 20 atm
  • oxygen-depleted (vitiated) air for use in a gas turbine expander, as well as generating heat that is transferred to gasification reactor 28 and regeneration reactor 30 , via solid transfer.
  • the regeneration reactor 30 exchanges bed materials with both gasification reactor 28 and oxidation reactor 32 with no direct gasification reactor-to-oxidation reactor transfer, thereby allowing for the regeneration and recirculation of both the CO 2 sorbent material and the oxygen transfer material.
  • CO 2 sorbent material captures CO 2 in the gasification reactor 28 and releases it in regeneration reactor 30 , while the oxygen transfer material is oxidized in oxidation reactor 32 and reduced in regeneration reactor 30 .
  • Other exemplary UTP units that can be used in the systems disclosed herein is disclosed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______ to Kulkarni et al., Attorney Docket No. 217323-1 (GE3-0180), filed concurrently herewith.
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic view of an exemplary integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) polygeneration plant for electricity production from a solid hydrocarbon fuel (e.g., coal).
  • the plant includes an air separation unit 2 that receives air and separates the oxygen and nitrogen.
  • the oxygen enters a syngas generator 4 along with coal.
  • the syngas is cooled in a heat exchanger 6 prior to entering a water gas shift reactor (shift reactor) 8 where carbon monoxide in the stream is converted to carbon dioxide.
  • shift reactor water gas shift reactor
  • the stream then passes through a gas clean-up unit (e.g., a syngas clean-up unit, an acid gas recovery (AGR) unit, and the like) 10 to remove sulfur, carbon dioxide scrubber 12 to remove carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), and pressure swing absorption (PSA) unit 14 to separate impurities from the hydrogen (H 2 ) stream.
  • the impurities are burned in a combustor 16 along with the nitrogen stream from the air separation unit and compressed air from compressor 18 .
  • the combustion stream enters the power generating unit 100 comprising optional expander(s) 20 (e.g., turbines), heat recovery steam generator(s) (HRSG) 22 , steam turbine(s) 24 and generator(s) 26 .
  • FIG. 3 shows the UFP process, described in FIG. 1 , integrated in a polygen plant that can produce hydrogen and/or electricity along with CO 2 capture.
  • the air separation unit is not required (not shown) as with many polygen plants, CO 2 separation is inherent in the unmixed fuel processor (UFP) 80 comprising reactors 1 (R 1 ), 2 (R 2 ), and 3 (R 3 ), and heat exchange losses are reduced or eliminated due to the use of oxygen depleted air (vitiated stream) in the expander 20 .
  • UFP unmixed fuel processor
  • R 1 reactors 1
  • 2 (R 2 ), and 3 (R 3 ) reactors 1 (R 1 ), 2 (R 2 ), and 3 (R 3 )
  • heat exchange losses are reduced or eliminated due to the use of oxygen depleted air (vitiated stream) in the expander 20 .
  • air is introduced directly to a compressor 40 prior to entering the UFP 80 .
  • the compressor can compress the air to a pressure of about 2 atm to about 60
  • coal is gasified and the CO 2 sorbent material captures CO 2 , facilitating the water gas shift reaction that converts additional CO to CO 2 for adsorption and produces a H 2 rich stream containing greater than or equal to about 60 volume percent (vol %) H 2 in the syngas stream, or, more specifically about 60 vol % to about 90 vol % H 2 in the syngas.
  • the CO 2 sorbent material returns to the CO 2 release reactor 30 , while the gasification reactor effluent (a CO 2 reduced stream) can pass from the gasification reactor 28 , and through a heat recovery steam generator 34 , a shift reactor 8 , a gas clean-up (e.g., an acid gas recovery (AGR)) unit 10 , and pressure swing absorption unit 14 .
  • the shift reactor 8 can reduce the concentration of CO in the CO 2 reduced stream from about 10 vol % to about 30 vol % down to less than or equal to about 1 vol %, while producing more H 2 .
  • the acid gas recovery unit 10 removes impurities such as chlorine, sulfur, and ammonia, from the stream (e.g., from the coal-derived syngas).
  • the pressure swing absorption unit 14 further purifies the stream from shift reactor to produce a pure H 2 stream (e.g., 99.99% pure) that can be employed, for example, for fuel cell based applications.
  • the hydrogen stream exiting the PSA unit 14 can be used as desired (e.g., liquefaction, fuel cells, turbines, and so forth), while the PSA off-gas can be compressed in compressor 18 and returned to the oxidation reactor 32 and/or combusted.
  • all of the PSA off-gas can be recycled to the oxidation reactor 32 , or all of the PSA off-gas can be combusted, or, a portion of the PSA off-gas can be recycled to the oxidation reactor 32 while another portion of the PSA off-gas can be combusted.
  • With the recycle of CO 2 to the regeneration reactor 30 steam flow to the reactor can be reduced and hence operating costs can be reduced.
  • An effluent stream from the oxidation reactor 32 and/or combustor (see FIG. 4 ), can then be used in the power generating unit 100 .
  • the PSA off-gas can be directed to the oxidation reactor 32 and/or a combustor 16 .
  • the combustion stream can be directed to the expander 20 of the power generating unit 100 .
  • Combustion of the PSA off-gas enhances system efficiency due to the introduction of higher temperature gas (about 1,300° C. to about 1,400° C.) to the expander 20 .
  • all or a portion of the hydrogen stream from the PSA unit 14 can be used in various plant(s) 42 . (See FIG. 5 ) Possible plant(s) 42 include urea, ammonia, and so forth, as well as combinations comprising at least one of these plants.
  • the PSA unit has been replaced with a fuel cell 44 .
  • the compressor 40 and expander 20 have been removed, allowing direct fluid communication between the compressor 18 and the oxidation reactor 32 , and between the oxidation reactor 32 and the heat recovery steam generator 22 .
  • the optional removal of the compressor 40 and expander 20 (see FIG. 3 ), enables the low pressure electricity generation. As a result, capital expenditures can be minimized with the low pressure, low temperature production of electricity.
  • Ranges disclosed herein are inclusive and combinable (e.g., ranges of “up to about 25 wt %, or, more specifically, about 5 wt % to about 20 wt %”, is inclusive of the endpoints and all intermediate values of the ranges of “about 5 wt % to about 25 wt %,” etc.).
  • “Combination” is inclusive of blends, mixtures, alloys, reaction products, and the like.
  • the terms “first,” “second,” and the like, herein do not denote any order, quantity, or importance, but rather are used to distinguish one element from another, and the terms “a” and “an” herein do not denote a limitation of quantity, but rather denote the presence of at least one of the referenced item.

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