WO2014065778A1 - Procédé pour réduire les émissions de dioxyde de carbone d'un gaz de cheminée - Google Patents
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- the field of the invention is capture of C0 2 from plant emissions or waste gases.
- this invention relates to the capture of C0 2 from flue gases, especially those produced in chemical or petrochemical plants, power plants, and refineries.
- Flue gases are waste gases typically produced as exhaust from turbines, furnaces, boilers, ovens, steam generators, and similar installations, and are often produced in large quantities by power plants and chemical, petrochemical, and refinery installations.
- the composition of flue gas is dependent on the fuel source, however, it will usually comprise nitrogen and unconsumed oxygen from the combustion air, carbon dioxide (C0 2 ), carbon monoxide (CO), trace components like argon, and water vapor. It may further contain volatile organic carbon compounds, nitrogen oxides, and sulfur oxides. Release of many of these compounds (C0 2 in particular) to the atmosphere has become a matter of public concern and is increasingly regulated through the implementation of fines, carbon taxes, and carbon credits.
- the inventive subject matter provides apparatus, systems, and methods in which one may economically and effectively reduce C0 2 emissions from flue gases from multiple sources by combination of the flue gases and utilization of heat from the combined flue gas stream to deliver power to a C0 2 capture unit.
- One embodiment of the inventive concept is a method of reducing C0 2 emissions from flue gases by collecting hot flue gas streams from one or more flue gas sources.
- Typical flue gas sources include a reformer furnace, a gas turbine, a water heater, a steam generator, a boiler, and a (liquefied) natural gas heater.
- flue gases from two or more flue gas sources may be collected and combined to form a combined hot flue gas stream.
- Such a hot flue gas stream may have a temperature of about 50° C to 250° C, and may contain C0 2 at concentration of from about 10% and 20%.
- Heat may recovered from all or part of such a hot flue gas stream, resulting the generation of a cooled flue gas stream that is suitable for C0 2 capture. All or part of this recovered heat may be used to drive a heat engine, which can serve to generate power.
- Suitable heat engines include a Rankine cycle engine, an organic Rankine cycle engine, a regenerative cycle engine, a Carnot cycle engine, a Stirling cycle engine, and a
- thermoelectric converter Some or all of this power may be utilized in the recovery of C0 2 from the cooled flue gas stream.
- C0 2 may be recovered from a cooled flue gas stream using an amine-based solvent. This process may generate a C0 2 stream, at least some of which can be sequestered to reduce C0 2 emissions or in any commercial application.
- Another embodiment of the inventive concept is a flue gas treatment unit for capturing C0 2 from flue gas.
- the treatment unit includes a duct or functionally similar structure that connects a plurality of flue gas sources and a C0 2 capture unit, permitting transport of flue gas to the C0 2 capture unit.
- Sources of flue gas include a reformer furnace, a gas turbine, a water heater, a steam generator, a boiler, and a (liquefied) natural gas heater.
- Different types of flue gas sources may be connected to such a duct.
- a heat recovery unit is placed in thermal communication with the duct (for example, by a heat exchanger) between the plurality of flue gas sources and the C0 2 capture unit, where it may be used to extract heat. This heat may be transferred to a heat engine, which may be operatively coupled to the heat recovery unit. This heat engine may then be used to supply power to the C0 2 capture unit.
- Suitable heat engines include a Rankine cycle engine, an organic Rankine cycle engine, a regenerative cycle engine, a Carnot cycle engine, a Stirling cycle engine, and a thermoelectric converter.
- the heat engine may include a boiler that is in thermal communication with the heat recovery unit.
- the heat engine may include a turbine that is in fluid communication with such a boiler, and that is coupled to a generator or compressor. Such a generator or compressor may, in turn, be in electrical communication with the C0 2 capture unit.
- Figure 1 is a schematic of one exemplary embodiment of the inventive concept.
- a plurality of sources provide flue gas that is directed to a common duct. Heat is extracted from the flue gas, and is utilized in a heat engine that provides power used to recover C0 2 from the cooled flue gas.
- FIG. 2 is a schematic of another exemplary embodiment of the inventive concept.
- Different sources provide flue gas that is directed to a common duct. Heat is extracted from the flue gas, and is utilized in a heat engine that provides power used to recover C0 2 from the cooled flue gas.
- the disclosed techniques provide many advantageous technical effects including providing energy efficient recovery of C0 2 from flue gas, permitting C0 2 to be sequestered and thereby preventing it from being released into the atmosphere.
- the invention advantageously supplies more power for this operation as the amount of flue gas to be processed increases, providing a synergistic effect. Such power recovery is particularly desirable where multiple flue gas streams from relatively moderate sources are combined and where C0 2 and/or heat recovery from the individual streams would not be economically or technically attractive.
- inventive subject matter provides many example embodiments of the inventive subject matter. Although each embodiment represents a single combination of inventive elements, the inventive subject matter is considered to include all possible combinations of the disclosed elements. Thus if one embodiment comprises elements A, B, and C, and a second embodiment comprises elements B and D, then the inventive subject matter is also considered to include other remaining combinations of A, B, C, or D, even if not explicitly disclosed.
- the inventive subject matter provides apparatus, systems, and methods in which one may economically and effectively reduce C0 2 emissions from flue gases (and especially from a flue gas stream that is formed from a plurality of smaller streams of distinct flue gas sources within a plant) by converting heat derived from the flue gas stream to power or energy that is utilized by a C0 2 capture unit coupled to the flue gas stream.
- One or more sources of flue gas 100, 110 supply streams of hot flue gas to a collecting duct 120 to form a combined hot flue gas stream 125.
- Such hot flue gas streams which may (for example) result from combustion processes utilized in the coal, gas, and/or petroleum industries (such as, for example, from a reformer furnace, a gas turbine, a water heater, a steam generator, a boiler, and/or a (liquefied) natural gas heater) are generally available at elevated temperatures and low to moderate pressures.
- the (combined) hot flue gas stream may have a temperature ranging from about 40° C to about 450° C and/or pressure ranging from about -100 mbarg to about +300 mbarg. In a preferred embodiment of the inventive concept the (combined) hot flue gas stream has a temperature ranging from about 50° C to about 250° C and/or a pressure ranging from about -50 mbarg to about +200 mbarg. In some embodiments of the inventive concept the C0 2 content of such flue gas can range from about 1% to about 60%. In other embodiments of the inventive concept the C0 2 content of such flue gas can range from about 5% to about 50%.
- the C0 2 content of such flue gas can range from about 10% to about 20%.
- all ranges set forth herein should be interpreted as being inclusive of their endpoints, and open-ended ranges should be interpreted to include commercially practical values.
- all lists of values should be considered as inclusive of intermediate values unless the context indicates the contrary.
- sources of flue gas may operate at different pressures and flow rates, and that embodiments of the inventive concept may incorporate suitable control devices to permit safe and effective blending of these.
- a control device may be incorporated into a flue gas source that prevents transfer of flue gas to the duct 120 when the pressure of the flue gas is below a specified value. Such a condition may occur when a flue gas source 100, 110 is offline or is in a specific portion of a power cycle.
- a control device may include a monitoring device that characterizes the flue gas.
- Characteristics of the flue gas that may be monitored for control purposes may include (but are not limited to) pressure, temperature, C0 2 content, and/or a combination of these. This combining of flue gas streams from multiple sources advantageously permits the generation of sufficient volume of hot flue gas to make heat energy recovery from this material commercially viable.
- heat may be recovered from the combined hot flue gas 125 by a heat recovery unit 130.
- the heat recovery unit is in thermal communication with the duct 120.
- a heat recovery unit 130 may, for example, include a heat exchanger that is in thermal contact with the duct 120.
- Suitable heat exchangers include, but are not limited to, a counterflow heat exchanger (of vertical, horizontal, or cellular design), a heat pipe, a liquid-coupled heat exchanger or run-around coil, a rotary enthalpy wheel, or a
- Removal of heat from combined hot flue gas 125 generates a stream of cooled flue gas 135 that may be directed to a C0 2 capture unit 140 that is in fluid communication with the duct 120.
- the reduced temperature of the cooled flue gas 135 is advantageous to many C0 2 capture processes.
- the temperature of the cooled flue gas 135 may be about 10° C lower than that of the hot flue gas 125.
- the temperature of the cooled flue gas 135 may be about 20° C lower than that of the hot flue gas 125.
- the temperature of the cooled flue gas 135 may be about 30° C or more lower than that of the hot flue gas 125.
- the C0 2 capture unit 140 may employ any suitable C0 2 capture technology. Suitable technologies include, but are not limited to, extraction with (e.g., amine-containing) solvents, membrane separation, cryogenic treatment, pressure swing adsorption, or any reasonable combination of these. In a preferred embodiment of the inventive concept the C0 2 capture unit utilizes an
- the C0 2 capture unit 140 may, in turn, produce a stream of C0 2 -depleted flue gas 180 and a stream of C0 2 190 recovered from the cooled flue gas 135.
- the recovered C0 2 190 is sequestered in order to prevent its release into the atmosphere.
- Suitable C0 2 sequestration techniques include, but are not limited to, subterranean injection into depleted fossil fuel reserves, injection into basalt, and/or reaction with metal oxides (such as magnesium of calcium oxide) to form carbonate minerals. Such carbonate minerals may advantageously be utilized as building materials.
- C0 2 recovered by this process may be utilized as a carbon source for the cultivation of algae and/or in the synthesis of hydrocarbons and oxygen-containing organic compounds (such as methanol) or as growth enhancer in greenhouses.
- Such C0 2 capture methods require energy or power to operate.
- all or part of this energy or power may be supplied by a heat engine 160 that utilizes at least a portion of the heat 150 supplied by a heat recovery unit 130 and derived from a hot flue gas stream 125 to generate power 170 that is transmitted to a CO 2 capture unit 140.
- C0 2 may be compressed following release from an amine-containing solvent using energy derived from heat recovered from the hot flue gas stream 125.
- Suitable heat engines include, but are not limited to a Rankine cycle engine, an organic Rankine cycle engine, a regenerative cycle engine, a Carnot cycle engine, a Stirling cycle engine, a thermoelectric device, or a combination of these.
- the heat engine 160 may drive a generator that supplies electric power (or in the case of a thermoelectric device, generates) to the C0 2 capture unit 140. In such an embodiment a portion of the electric power thus generated may be utilized to run other plant operations, such as lighting or climate control.
- the heat engine 160 may directly or indirectly (for example, by supplying current to an electric motor) drive a compressor that supplies pressure to the C0 2 capture unit 140.
- the heat engine 160 may supply mechanical work to the C0 2 capture unit 140, for example driving one or more pumps or compressors.
- two or more heat engines 160 may utilize heat from a heat recovery unit 130, and may in turn supply different forms of power to the C0 2 capture unit 140.
- the heat engine 160 may also supply power to other parts of a plant or installation. Most preferably, however, heat from the heat recovery unit may be used in the process of regeneration of the solvent and/or in the generation of electrical or mechanical energy to reduce C0 2 compression requirements.
- FIG. 2 schematically illustrates another embodiment of the inventive concept.
- flue gases are collected from two or more sources 200, 205, 210, and 215.
- sources may be of different types; for example, source 200 and source 205 may both produce suitable flue gases but by different means.
- Suitable sources include, but are not limited to devices utilized for combustion processes utilized in the coal, gas, and/or petroleum industries such as, for example, a reformer furnace, a gas turbine, a water heater, a steam generator, a boiler, and/or a (liquefied) natural gas heater.
- Flue gas sources are collected in a duct 220.
- flue gas may be collected in a secondary duct 225 that joins another duct 220.
- the combined flue gases collected from these sources may have a temperature ranging from about 40° C to about 450° C and/or pressure ranging from about -100 mbarg to about +300 mbarg.
- the hot flue gas stream has a temperature ranging from about 50° C to about 250° C and/or a pressure ranging from about -50 mbarg to about +200 mbarg.
- the C0 2 content of such flue gas can range from about 1% to about 60%. In other embodiments of the inventive concept the C0 2 content of such flue gas can range from about 5% to about 50%. In a preferred embodiment of the inventive concept the C0 2 content of such flue gas can range from about 10% to about 20%.
- a control device may be incorporated into a flue gas source 200, 205, 210, and/or 215 that prevents transfer of flue gas to a duct 220, 225 when the pressure of the flue gas is below a specified value.
- a control device may be used to control the flow of pooled gases between ducts (not shown).
- a control device may include a monitoring device that measures one or more characteristics of the flue gas. Characteristics of the flue gas that may be monitored for control purposes may include (but are not limited to) pressure, temperature, C0 2 content, and/or a combination of these. This combining of flue gas streams from multiple and diverse sources advantageously permits the generation of sufficient volume of hot flue gas to make heat energy recovery from this material commercially viable.
- the duct 220 may be in fluid communication with a C0 2 capture unit 235.
- heat is extracted from the flue gas by a heat recovery unit 230, that may be placed in thermal contact with the duct 220 prior to its connection to the C0 2 capture unit 235. Removal of heat from the pooled flue gases reduces its temperature, which is advantageous to many C0 2 removal processes.
- the temperature of the flue gas may be reduced by about 10° C following passage through the heat recovery unit 230. In another embodiment of the inventive concept the temperature of the flue gas may reduced by about 20° C following passage through the heat recovery unit 230.
- the temperature of the flue gas may be reduced by about 30° C or more following passage through the heat recovery unit 230.
- the C0 2 capture unit 235 may employ any suitable C0 2 capture technology. Suitable technologies include, but are not limited to, extraction with amine-containing solvents, cryogenic treatment, pressure swing adsorption, or a combination of these.
- CO 2 may be compressed following release from an amine-containing solvent using energy derived from heat recovered from the flue gases contained in the duct 220.
- the CO 2 capture unit 235 utilizes an ECONAMINE FG+TM process (Fluor Corporation, Irving, Texas USA, 75039).
- the CO 2 capture unit 235 may, in turn, produce a stream of C0 2 -depleted flue gas 290 and a stream of C0 2 295 .
- a stream of CO 2 295 may be sequestered or otherwise utilized to reduce release of CO 2 emissions to the atmosphere.
- the heat that is recovered from the flue gases in the duct 220 by the heat recovery unit 230 may advantageously be utilized as a source of energy or work in the C0 2 capture unit 235. As noted above, this advantageously provides more energy that may be utilized for CO 2 capture as the volume flue gases to be processed increases, providing a synergistic effect.
- the heat recovery unit 230 is in thermal communication with the duct 220.
- Such a heat recovery unit 230 may, for example, include a heat exchanger that is in thermal contact with the duct 220.
- Suitable heat exchangers include, but are not limited to, a counterflow heat exchanger (of vertical, horizontal, or cellular design), a heat pipe, a liquid-coupled heat exchanger or run-around coil, a rotary enthalpy wheel, or a combination of these. Removal of heat from flue gas in the duct 220 generates a stream of cooled flue gas that may be directed to a CO 2 capture unit 235 that is in fluid communication with the duct 220. Such heat 240 removed from the flue gas in the duct 220 may be transformed into power, energy, and/or work by a heat engine 245.
- Suitable heat engines include, but are not limited to a Rankine cycle engine, an organic Rankine cycle engine, a regenerative cycle engine, a Carnot cycle engine, a Stirling cycle engine, a thermoelectric device, or a combination of these.
- an exemplary heat engine 245 is shown with a boiler 250 that utilizes heat recovered by the heat recovery unit 230 to heat a working fluid, thereby causing it to expand.
- the resulting increase in pressure is transmitted via a high pressure line 265 to a turbine 255, causing it to spin.
- a turbine 255 may be utilized to drive a generator, compressor, mechanical linkage, or other device (not shown) to produce transmissible energy, power, or work 285, which may be used to drive processes utilized in the C0 2 capture unit 235.
- the fluid may be transferred via a low pressure line 270 to a condenser 260.
- the condensed fluid may then be returned to the boiler 250 via a condensate line 280.
- heat 240 from the heat recovery unit may be distributed to two or more heat engines.
- the heat engines may supply energy, power, or work in different forms.
- a portion of the heat 240 recovered by the heat recovery unit 230 may be utilized without conversion to energy, power, or work.
- a portion of the heat recovered from flue gases in the duct 220 may be transferred to the C0 2 capture unit 235 as heat, where it may be used to heat a reboiler (not shown) used to release C0 2 captured from the flue gas by an amine-containing solvent.
- a portion of the heat 240 recovered by the thermal recovery unit 230 may be utilized to pre-heat fuel and/or oxygen sources for one or more of the flue gas sources 200, 205, 210, and 215.
- heat recovered from fluidic waste streams containing undesirable compounds other than C0 2 may be used to provide power for capture of such undesirable compounds from the waste fluidic stream.
- undesirable compounds include, but are not limited to CO, ammonia, nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, volatile organic carbon compounds, and chlorofluorocarbons.
- one or more capture units configured to perform capture processes for different compounds (or families of compounds) may be placed in fluid communication with a duct that is, in turn, in communication with one or more sources of a stream of flue gas containing such compounds.
- Heat recovered from such a flue gas stream utilizing a heat recovery system may be used by a heat engine to provide energy, power, or work that may, in turn, be utilized to drive one or more of these capture units.
- a heat recovery unit may be placed downstream from one or more capture units.
- one or more heat recovery units may be positioned between capture units, allowing temperature of the fluid stream to be modulated as appropriate for individual capture units.
- water upon cooling of the combined hot flue gas, water may be condensed and recovered in significant quantities, which may be employed as boiler feed water, make-up water (e.g., for amine solvent), or other purpose within the plant.
- Coupled to is intended to include both direct coupling (in which two elements that are coupled to each other contact each other) and indirect coupling (in which at least one additional element is located between the two elements). Therefore, the terms “coupled to” and “coupled with” are used synonymously.
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Abstract
L'invention concerne des installations, des dispositifs, et des procédés qui réduisent économiquement et efficacement les émissions de dioxyde de carbone (CO2) de gaz de cheminée en transformant la chaleur dérivée d'une ou plusieurs sources de gaz de cheminée pour entraîner un moteur thermique, qui produit de la puissance, de l'énergie, et/ou un travail qui sont utilisés par une unité de capture de CO2 couplée au courant de gaz de cheminée. Le CO2 capturés du courant de gaz de cheminée peut être séquestré et/ou utilisé à des fins commerciales.
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