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WO2020002188A1
WO2020002188A1 PCT/EP2019/066591 EP2019066591W WO2020002188A1 WO 2020002188 A1 WO2020002188 A1 WO 2020002188A1 EP 2019066591 W EP2019066591 W EP 2019066591W WO 2020002188 A1 WO2020002188 A1 WO 2020002188A1
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  • Embodiments of the invention generally relate to a cata lytic reactor with catalytic reactor tubes and more specif ically to a catalytic reactor comprising metal radiation surfaces provided in a combustion chamber of the catalytic reactor, which improve the heat transfer and/or even the heat transfer profile from the combustion reaction to the catalytic reactor tubes and the catalyst elements during operation of the catalytic reactor.
  • a limiting fac- tor is the heat transfer between the process fluid flowing through the catalyst bed and the burner flame (s) arranged adjacent to the outside of container of the catalyst bed to provide heat to the chemical process.
  • the catalyst is contained in catalytic reactor tubes with pro- cess fluid flowing within the catalytic reactor tubes through the catalyst bed.
  • the catalytic reactor tubes are then heated on the outside to transfer heat to the cata lyst.
  • An increase of the heat transfer from the heat source, often a burner flame, to the catalytic reactor tubes will thus increase the efficiency and yield of the chemical process in each catalytic reactor tube and in the catalytic reactor as a whole.
  • the efficiency will be increased if the local heat from a burner flame is evened out to provide well distributed heat transfer to the catalytic reactor tubes.
  • the catalytic reac tor comprises a plurality of catalytic reactor tubes.
  • an increase in the efficiency of each catalytic reactor tube in the cata lytic reactor has a direct influence in lowering the cost, material consumption and energy consumption for producing a given amount of chemical products in the catalytic reactor.
  • EP1604706 discloses a flame arresting article comprising a body of expanded net formed by longitudinally stretching slitted sheets of metal foil, said metal foil having a thickness in the range of 0.020 to 0.1 mm and having dis continuous slits (11) in parallel lines which are spaced apart 2 50 5 mm.
  • the metal foil is an alloy of magnesium and at least one metal selected from the group consisting of aluminium, copper, zirconium, zinc, strontium, Rn (elec tron) , silicon, titanium, iron, manganese, and chromium, there being at least 0.05 percent magnesium by weight.
  • the invention also relates to the associated method of arrest ing flames.
  • US5408984 describes a gas burner which employs a two stage flame stabilizer. At low input rates, a fully aerated flame is stabilized at the surface of a porous material. At higher input rates, the flame blows off and is held by flame stabilization tabs.
  • Such structures of this type generally, operate over a very wide range of input rates and employ a highly aerated flame which reduces the flame temperature, slows NOx production, and increases the over all reaction rate by shortening the flame while reducing carbon monoxide (CO) caused by flame impingement.
  • CO carbon monoxide
  • tubes shall be construed as enclosures of any cross sectional shape, only characterized by being longer than the cross sectional distance.
  • tubes are cylindrical, but they may also have non-circular cross sectional shapes and varying cross sectional shape over the tube length.
  • Embodiments of the invention generally relate to a cata lytic reactor comprising a combustion reaction chamber which comprises a plurality of catalytic reactor tubes.
  • the catalytic reactor tubes are at least partly filled with catalyst elements to provide for a chemical reaction to take place in the catalytic reactor tubes when process fluid streams through them.
  • the catalytic re actor also comprises at least one burner enabled to produce a combustion reaction, providing heat to the catalytic re actor tubes for the chemical reaction to take place.
  • one or more metal radiation surfaces are arranged between the catalytic reac- tor tubes.
  • the metal radiation surfaces have several ad vantages. They absorb heat energy from the combustion reac tion of the burner (s) and emit this as radiation with a higher effect than a gaseous species (gas radiation) . They may act as flame attachment surfaces, controlling the burner flames, thus helping preventing flame attachment to reformer tubes which may cause hot spots which damage the catalytic reactor tubes. Furthermore, the metal radiation surfaces will conduct the heat from the burner (s), thereby distributing the heat radiation to a larger area, evening the temperature of the reformer tubes.
  • the metal radia tion surfaces have a length of at least half the length of the catalytic reactor tubes to provide sufficient area for the mentioned advantages.
  • the metal radiation surfaces are arranged with at least a part of their surface in a distance from the burner suffi ciently small to enable the mentioned heat absorption from the combustion reaction. This distance may vary according to the specific setup of the application, it is adapted to the heat output from the burner (s), to the distance between the burner (s) and the catalytic reactor tubes, the distance between the reactor tubes and in case of a plurality of burners, to the distance between the burners.
  • the metal radiation surfaces are arranged so near the burner (s) that the burner flame will make a flame at tachment to the radiation surfaces, i.e. the direction and location of the burner flame (s) are guided by the metal ra diation surfaces.
  • the metal radi ation surfaces are actually arranged within the flame of at least one of the burners.
  • the metal radiation surfaces improve the heat transfer from the burner (s) to the catalytic reac tor tubes and even out the heat transfer profile from the combustion reaction to the catalytic reactor tubes (and thereby to the catalyst elements within the catalytic reac tor tubes) during operation of the catalytic reactor.
  • the metal radiation surfaces are made of a woven metal. In a further embodi ment, they are made of a metal gauze or metal plates. In a specific embodiment of the invention the metal radiation surfaces are made of a Kanthal metal gauze.
  • the metal threads of the woven metal or metal gauze may have a cross sectional diameter of 50 ym to 1 mm, preferably between 50 ym and 100 ym.
  • the metal radia tion surfaces have a length of 80% to 100% of the length of the catalytic reactor tubes, to further improve the heat transfer and even the heat transfer profile as mentioned.
  • the metal radiation sur faces are arranged as curtains in the combustion reaction chamber, attached in the chamber at their top and bottom. This embodiment is particularly efficient when the
  • the burner (s) are top mounted or bottom mounted in the combus tion reaction chamber.
  • the metal radiation surfaces may be made of or coated with a catalytic active material. This can increase oxidation of unburned fuel especially carbon monoxide.
  • this approach is applicable to a HiCOT reformer furnace as it will allow use of HiCOT burners to be used on box reform ers. This will enable to make a reformer furnace with lower NOx formation as the average combustion temperature in the furnace will be lowered.
  • one or more metal radia tion surfaces are arranged within one, more or all the cat alytic reactor tubes.
  • the metal radiation surfaces are shaped to fit and be in physical contact with the inner surface of the catalytic reactor tubes in at least a part of the inner circumference of the one or more catalytic re actor tubes.
  • the metal radiation surfaces are ar ranged within the catalytic reactor tubes, around the cata- lyst elements, between the catalyst elements and the cata lytic reactor tubes inner surface.
  • the weight and pressure of the catalyst elements contributes to the physical con tact between the inner surface of the catalytic reactor tubes and the metal radiation surfaces.
  • the process fluid flowing within the catalytic reactor tubes, through the catalyst bed, receives heat from the catalytic reactor tube wall inner surface, by means of heat or cooling applied to the outer surface of the catalytic reactor tube wall.
  • the metal radiation surfaces break up the boundary flow region of the process fluid near the inner surface of the cata lytic reactor tubes and increases the surface area, which increases the internal heat transfer from the inner surface of the catalytic reactor tubes to the process fluid flowing within the catalytic reactor tubes.
  • Catalytic reactor comprising a combustion reaction cham ber which comprises a plurality of catalytic reactor tubes and at least one burner for producing at least one combus tion reaction, said catalytic reactor tubes are at least partly filled with catalyst elements, characterised in that the combustion reaction chamber further comprises one or more metal radiation surfaces, said metal radiation sur faces are
  • the metal radiation surfaces improve the heat transfer and/or even out the heat transfer profile from the combustion reaction to the catalytic reactor tubes and the catalyst elements during operation of the catalytic reac tor .
  • Catalytic reactor according to feature 1 wherein said metal radiation surfaces are woven metal radiation sur faces .
  • Catalytic reactor according to any of the preceding fea tures wherein said metal radiation surfaces have a length of 80% to 100% of the length of the catalytic reactor tubes .
  • Catalytic reactor according to any of the preceding fea tures, wherein said metal radiation surfaces are arranged so near at least one of said burners that a flame of the burner will make flame attachment to the radiation sur faces .
  • Catalytic reactor according to any of the preceding fea tures, wherein said metal radiation surfaces are arranged within a flame of at least one of said burners.
  • Catalytic reactor according to any of the preceding fea tures, wherein said metal radiation surfaces are arranged as curtains and attached at their top and bottom within said combustion reaction chamber.
  • Catalytic reactor according to any of the preceding fea tures wherein the metal radiation surfaces are coated with a catalytic active material.
  • Catalytic reactor according to any of the preceding features, wherein said catalytic reactor is a steam re former, a methanol reactor, a formaldehyde reactor or an ethylene cracker.
  • said catalytic reactor is a steam re former, a methanol reactor, a formaldehyde reactor or an ethylene cracker.
  • a metal wire gauze (or metal sheets) is placed in the fur nace box in between tube rows so the direction of the top or bottom burners will be directed along the gauze (prefer- ably divided in two sides by the gauze) .
  • the gauze is de signed to cover the whole area or there will be made holes, depending on the desired radiation for the specific verti cal position. This way the radiation from a solid surface can be varied to obtain a desired radiation profile for the reformer tube having a significant part of the heat re leased to the gauze conducted to other parts.
  • the gauze is also attached to the lower part in the furnace in order to control the horizontal position to the centre between the reformer tubes.
  • the gauze will be attached by wires con- nected to anchors both made of high temperature materials placed in the top of the furnace box either in the roof or on the sides close to the top.
  • the capacity is boosted by obtaining a more even temperature profile along the reformer tubes, which has a significant impact on re former tube life time.
  • the combustion flames are stabilized by attaching these to an internal surface preventing the risk of flame attachment to the tubes minimizing operation risks.
  • peak temperature in the combustion flame also is be reduced, also the NOx formation in the furnace is low ered.

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The invention relates to a catalytic reactor comprising a combustion reaction chamber with catalytic reactor tubes filled with catalyst elements and metal radiation surfaces arranged in the chamber to improve heat transfer.

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Title : Catalytic reactor comprising metal radiation sur faces
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
Embodiments of the invention generally relate to a cata lytic reactor with catalytic reactor tubes and more specif ically to a catalytic reactor comprising metal radiation surfaces provided in a combustion chamber of the catalytic reactor, which improve the heat transfer and/or even the heat transfer profile from the combustion reaction to the catalytic reactor tubes and the catalyst elements during operation of the catalytic reactor.
BACKGROUND
In catalytic reactors the chemical process often requires heating or cooling of the catalyst bed for the chemical process to run or at least to run feasible. A limiting fac- tor is the heat transfer between the process fluid flowing through the catalyst bed and the burner flame (s) arranged adjacent to the outside of container of the catalyst bed to provide heat to the chemical process. In many cases, the catalyst is contained in catalytic reactor tubes with pro- cess fluid flowing within the catalytic reactor tubes through the catalyst bed. The catalytic reactor tubes are then heated on the outside to transfer heat to the cata lyst. An increase of the heat transfer from the heat source, often a burner flame, to the catalytic reactor tubes will thus increase the efficiency and yield of the chemical process in each catalytic reactor tube and in the catalytic reactor as a whole. Furthermore, the efficiency will be increased if the local heat from a burner flame is evened out to provide well distributed heat transfer to the catalytic reactor tubes. In most cases, the catalytic reac tor comprises a plurality of catalytic reactor tubes. As catalytic reactors have a considerable cost, an increase in the efficiency of each catalytic reactor tube in the cata lytic reactor has a direct influence in lowering the cost, material consumption and energy consumption for producing a given amount of chemical products in the catalytic reactor.
Known art offers little solution to this problem, as can be seen in the following references, where:
EP1604706 discloses a flame arresting article comprising a body of expanded net formed by longitudinally stretching slitted sheets of metal foil, said metal foil having a thickness in the range of 0.020 to 0.1 mm and having dis continuous slits (11) in parallel lines which are spaced apart 2 50 5 mm. The metal foil is an alloy of magnesium and at least one metal selected from the group consisting of aluminium, copper, zirconium, zinc, strontium, Rn (elec tron) , silicon, titanium, iron, manganese, and chromium, there being at least 0.05 percent magnesium by weight. The invention also relates to the associated method of arrest ing flames.
US5408984 describes a gas burner which employs a two stage flame stabilizer. At low input rates, a fully aerated flame is stabilized at the surface of a porous material. At higher input rates, the flame blows off and is held by flame stabilization tabs. Such structures of this type, generally, operate over a very wide range of input rates and employ a highly aerated flame which reduces the flame temperature, slows NOx production, and increases the over all reaction rate by shortening the flame while reducing carbon monoxide (CO) caused by flame impingement.
None of the above known art references offer a solution to the mentioned problem as described in the following.
In the following, tubes shall be construed as enclosures of any cross sectional shape, only characterized by being longer than the cross sectional distance. Typically, tubes are cylindrical, but they may also have non-circular cross sectional shapes and varying cross sectional shape over the tube length.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Embodiments of the invention generally relate to a cata lytic reactor comprising a combustion reaction chamber which comprises a plurality of catalytic reactor tubes. The catalytic reactor tubes are at least partly filled with catalyst elements to provide for a chemical reaction to take place in the catalytic reactor tubes when process fluid streams through them. To provide the necessary heat for the chemical reaction to take place, the catalytic re actor also comprises at least one burner enabled to produce a combustion reaction, providing heat to the catalytic re actor tubes for the chemical reaction to take place.
Within the combustion reaction chamber, one or more metal radiation surfaces are arranged between the catalytic reac- tor tubes. The metal radiation surfaces have several ad vantages. They absorb heat energy from the combustion reac tion of the burner (s) and emit this as radiation with a higher effect than a gaseous species (gas radiation) . They may act as flame attachment surfaces, controlling the burner flames, thus helping preventing flame attachment to reformer tubes which may cause hot spots which damage the catalytic reactor tubes. Furthermore, the metal radiation surfaces will conduct the heat from the burner (s), thereby distributing the heat radiation to a larger area, evening the temperature of the reformer tubes. This may open for a production increase (higher through-put on the process side) as the radiation input to the tubes could be modified eliminating the high temperature areas normally seen caused by the radiation from the burner flames. The metal radia tion surfaces have a length of at least half the length of the catalytic reactor tubes to provide sufficient area for the mentioned advantages.
The metal radiation surfaces are arranged with at least a part of their surface in a distance from the burner suffi ciently small to enable the mentioned heat absorption from the combustion reaction. This distance may vary according to the specific setup of the application, it is adapted to the heat output from the burner (s), to the distance between the burner (s) and the catalytic reactor tubes, the distance between the reactor tubes and in case of a plurality of burners, to the distance between the burners. In a one em bodiment, the metal radiation surfaces are arranged so near the burner (s) that the burner flame will make a flame at tachment to the radiation surfaces, i.e. the direction and location of the burner flame (s) are guided by the metal ra diation surfaces. In a specific embodiment, the metal radi ation surfaces are actually arranged within the flame of at least one of the burners.
As already described, the metal radiation surfaces improve the heat transfer from the burner (s) to the catalytic reac tor tubes and even out the heat transfer profile from the combustion reaction to the catalytic reactor tubes (and thereby to the catalyst elements within the catalytic reac tor tubes) during operation of the catalytic reactor.
In one embodiment of the invention, the metal radiation surfaces are made of a woven metal. In a further embodi ment, they are made of a metal gauze or metal plates. In a specific embodiment of the invention the metal radiation surfaces are made of a Kanthal metal gauze. The metal threads of the woven metal or metal gauze may have a cross sectional diameter of 50 ym to 1 mm, preferably between 50 ym and 100 ym.
In a further embodiment of the invention, the metal radia tion surfaces have a length of 80% to 100% of the length of the catalytic reactor tubes, to further improve the heat transfer and even the heat transfer profile as mentioned.
In an embodiment of the invention, the metal radiation sur faces are arranged as curtains in the combustion reaction chamber, attached in the chamber at their top and bottom. This embodiment is particularly efficient when the
burner (s) are top mounted or bottom mounted in the combus tion reaction chamber. To further improve the efficiency of the process and make the combustion process more environmental friendly, the metal radiation surfaces may be made of or coated with a catalytic active material. This can increase oxidation of unburned fuel especially carbon monoxide. For example, this approach is applicable to a HiCOT reformer furnace as it will allow use of HiCOT burners to be used on box reform ers. This will enable to make a reformer furnace with lower NOx formation as the average combustion temperature in the furnace will be lowered.
In an embodiment of the invention, one or more metal radia tion surfaces are arranged within one, more or all the cat alytic reactor tubes. The metal radiation surfaces are shaped to fit and be in physical contact with the inner surface of the catalytic reactor tubes in at least a part of the inner circumference of the one or more catalytic re actor tubes. Thus, the metal radiation surfaces are ar ranged within the catalytic reactor tubes, around the cata- lyst elements, between the catalyst elements and the cata lytic reactor tubes inner surface. The weight and pressure of the catalyst elements contributes to the physical con tact between the inner surface of the catalytic reactor tubes and the metal radiation surfaces. The process fluid flowing within the catalytic reactor tubes, through the catalyst bed, receives heat from the catalytic reactor tube wall inner surface, by means of heat or cooling applied to the outer surface of the catalytic reactor tube wall. The metal radiation surfaces break up the boundary flow region of the process fluid near the inner surface of the cata lytic reactor tubes and increases the surface area, which increases the internal heat transfer from the inner surface of the catalytic reactor tubes to the process fluid flowing within the catalytic reactor tubes.
Features
1. Catalytic reactor comprising a combustion reaction cham ber which comprises a plurality of catalytic reactor tubes and at least one burner for producing at least one combus tion reaction, said catalytic reactor tubes are at least partly filled with catalyst elements, characterised in that the combustion reaction chamber further comprises one or more metal radiation surfaces, said metal radiation sur faces are
• arranged between the catalytic reactor tubes
• having a length of at least half the length of the
catalytic reactor tubes
• arranged with at least a part of the metal radiation surface in a distance from the burner small enough to enable heat absorption from the combustion reaction to the metal radiation surface,
whereby the metal radiation surfaces improve the heat transfer and/or even out the heat transfer profile from the combustion reaction to the catalytic reactor tubes and the catalyst elements during operation of the catalytic reac tor .
2. Catalytic reactor according to feature 1, wherein said metal radiation surfaces are woven metal radiation sur faces .
3. Catalytic reactor according to any of the preceding fea tures, wherein said metal radiation surfaces are made of metal gauze.
4. Catalytic reactor according to any of the preceding fea tures, wherein said metal radiation surfaces have a length of 80% to 100% of the length of the catalytic reactor tubes .
5. Catalytic reactor according to any of the preceding fea tures, wherein said metal radiation surfaces are arranged so near at least one of said burners that a flame of the burner will make flame attachment to the radiation sur faces .
6. Catalytic reactor according to any of the preceding fea tures, wherein said metal radiation surfaces are arranged within a flame of at least one of said burners.
7. Catalytic reactor according to any of the preceding fea tures, wherein said metal radiation surfaces are arranged as curtains and attached at their top and bottom within said combustion reaction chamber.
8. Catalytic reactor according to any of the preceding fea tures, wherein the metal radiation surfaces comprise a cat alytic active coating.
9. Catalytic reactor according to any of the preceding fea tures, wherein the metal radiation surfaces are coated with a catalytic active material.
10. Catalytic reactor according to any of the preceding features, wherein said catalytic reactor is a steam re former, a methanol reactor, a formaldehyde reactor or an ethylene cracker. Example 1
A metal wire gauze (or metal sheets) is placed in the fur nace box in between tube rows so the direction of the top or bottom burners will be directed along the gauze (prefer- ably divided in two sides by the gauze) . The gauze is de signed to cover the whole area or there will be made holes, depending on the desired radiation for the specific verti cal position. This way the radiation from a solid surface can be varied to obtain a desired radiation profile for the reformer tube having a significant part of the heat re leased to the gauze conducted to other parts. The gauze is also attached to the lower part in the furnace in order to control the horizontal position to the centre between the reformer tubes. The gauze will be attached by wires con- nected to anchors both made of high temperature materials placed in the top of the furnace box either in the roof or on the sides close to the top.
Example 2
In a revamp for a top-fired reformer, the capacity is boosted by obtaining a more even temperature profile along the reformer tubes, which has a significant impact on re former tube life time. The combustion flames are stabilized by attaching these to an internal surface preventing the risk of flame attachment to the tubes minimizing operation risks. As peak temperature in the combustion flame also is be reduced, also the NOx formation in the furnace is low ered. Overall a significant increase in the produced syn thesis gas / hydrogen from the reformer is obtained.

Claims

1. Catalytic reactor comprising a combustion reaction cham ber which comprises a plurality of catalytic reactor tubes and at least one burner for producing at least one combus tion reaction, said catalytic reactor tubes are at least partly filled with catalyst elements, characterised in that the combustion reaction chamber further comprises one or more metal radiation surfaces, said metal radiation sur faces are
• arranged between the catalytic reactor tubes
• having a length of at least half the length of the
catalytic reactor tubes
• arranged with at least a part of the metal radiation surface in a distance from the burner small enough to enable heat absorption from the combustion reaction to the metal radiation surface,
whereby the metal radiation surfaces improve the heat transfer and/or even out the heat transfer profile from the combustion reaction to the catalytic reactor tubes and the catalyst elements during operation of the catalytic reac tor .
2. Catalytic reactor according to claim 1, wherein said metal radiation surfaces are woven metal radiation sur faces .
3. Catalytic reactor according to any of the preceding claims, wherein said metal radiation surfaces are made of metal gauze.
4. Catalytic reactor according to any of the preceding claims, wherein said metal radiation surfaces have a length of 80% to 100% of the length of the catalytic reactor tubes .
5. Catalytic reactor according to any of the preceding claims, wherein said metal radiation surfaces are arranged so near at least one of said burners that a flame of the burner will make flame attachment to the radiation sur faces .
6. Catalytic reactor according to any of the preceding claims, wherein said metal radiation surfaces are arranged within a flame of at least one of said burners.
7. Catalytic reactor according to any of the preceding claims, wherein said metal radiation surfaces are arranged as curtains and attached at their top and bottom within said combustion reaction chamber.
8. Catalytic reactor according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the metal radiation surfaces comprise a catalytic active coating.
9. Catalytic reactor according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the metal radiation surfaces are coated with a catalytic active material.
10. Catalytic reactor according to any of the preceding claims, wherein said catalytic reactor is a steam reformer, a methanol reactor, a formaldehyde reactor or an ethylene cracker .
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