1437results about "Cold treatment separation" patented technology

The present disclosure relates to a carbon dioxide capture apparatus and process combined with biogas upgrading, and there is provided the carbon dioxide capture apparatus combined with biogas upgrading for simultaneously obtaining high purity methane and carbon dioxide, and improving separation efficiency without an additional process by making use of gas streams after a liquefaction process, and recovering cold heat in the process.

A liquefier device which may be a retrofit to an air separation plant or utilized as part of a new design. The flow needed for the liquefier comes from an air separation plant running in a maxim oxygen state, in a stable mode. The three gas flows are low pressure oxygen, low pressure nitrogen, and higher pressure nitrogen. All of the flows are found on the side of the main heat exchanger with a temperature of about 37 degrees Fahrenheit. All of the gases put into the liquefier come out as a subcooled liquid, for storage or return to the air separation plant. This new liquefier does not include a front end electrical compressor, and will take a self-produced liquid nitrogen, pump it up to a runnable 420 PSIG pressure, and with the use of turbines, condensers, flash pots, and multi pass heat exchangers. The liquefier will make liquid from a planned amount of any pure gas oxygen or nitrogen an air separation plant can produce.

A method for providing a nitrogen product, an oxygen product and a hydrogen product, wherein an air separation installation is used which is designed for the low-temperature separation of feed air and which has a rectification column system, the rectification column system comprising an air-fed rectification column and a main heat exchanger. The provision of the nitrogen product comprises, in particular, subjecting feed air to low-temperature rectification using the air-fed rectification column such that a tops gas is obtained, and using part of the tops gas as the nitrogen product. The provision of the oxygen product and the hydrogen product comprises subjecting water to water electrolysis in an electrolyzer, such that a water-containing oxygen stream and a hydrogen stream are obtained, the water-containing oxygen stream or part thereof being subjected, at least in one operating phase, to drying and, in an unmixed state, to liquefaction in the air separation installation.

Systems herein separate an inlet gas stream containing methane, C2 components, C3 components and optionally heavier hydrocarbons into a volatile gas fraction containing methane and a less volatile hydrocarbon fraction containing C2+ components. The system may include piping, valving, and controls configured to flexibly allow the system to operate in a high ethane recovery mode, a high throughput mode, or in some embodiments, a high propane recovery mode.

The invention discloses a liquid air energy storage system based on air separation, which is characterized by comprising an air purification unit, an energy storage unit, an air rectification unit and an LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) cold supply unit, wherein the air purification unit comprises an air filter, an air compressor, a first cooler, an adsorber and a first heater, and the energy storage unit comprises a first liquid separation tank, a liquid air storage tank, a liquid air pump and an air expansion machine. The air rectification unit comprises a rectification tower, a main cold box, a second liquid separation tank, a second subcooler, a first heat exchanger, a liquid nitrogen storage tank, a liquid oxygen storage tank, a second heat exchanger, an argon rectification system and a liquid argon storage tank; and the LNG cold supply unit comprises a first nitrogen supercharger, a second nitrogen supercharger, an LNG cold box and a first subcooler. The system has the functions of air separation and electric energy storage at the same time, and cold energy of the LNG receiving station is fully utilized for air separation and energy storage to participate in construction of a novel power system of a power grid.

Provided are a micro-scale apparatus and method for liquefying natural gas The apparatus comprises a first heat exchanger that cools a natural gas feed stream by heat exchange with a first cooling fluid from a chiller, a compressor configured to compress the cooled natural gas, an air cooler configured to further cool the compressed natural gas, a second heat exchanger configured to further cool the natural gas by heat exchange with a second cooling fluid, a third heat exchanger configured to further cool the cooled natural gas, a joule-thompson (JT) valve configured to cool the flow of cooled natural gas to create LNG, a separator configured to separate a liquified LNG from a vapour phase, and a return flow path connected to the natural gas inlet, wherein the return flow path is optionally configured to pass as cooling medium via the third heat exchanger, wherein optionally the return flow path is configured to transport the vapour phase from the separator via the third heat exchanger for heating by heat exchange a gas flow entering the inlet of the third heat exchanger, and to combine the heated vapour phase with the natural gas feed stream.

Plant and method for producing hydrogen at cryogenic temperature, comprising: an electrolyzer; a hydrogen circuit to be cooled, comprising an upstream end connected to the hydrogen outlet and a downstream end to be connected to a member for collecting cooled and / or liquefied hydrogen, the plant also comprising a set of heat exchanger(s) in heat exchange with the hydrogen circuit to be cooled, the plant comprising at least one cooling device in heat exchange with at least a portion of the set of heat exchanger(s), the plant further comprising an oxygen circuit comprising an upstream end connected to the oxygen outlet and a downstream end, the oxygen circuit comprising a system for expanding the oxygen stream and at least one heat exchange between the expanded oxygen stream and the hydrogen circuit to be cooled, characterized in that the oxygen circuit comprises at least one oxygen compressor arranged upstream of the oxygen stream expansion system, the oxygen stream expansion system comprising an expansion turbine and in that said expansion turbine and said compressor are coupled to the same rotating shaft to transfer expansion work from the pressurized oxygen stream to the compressor in order to compress the oxygen stream upstream of the turbine.

A process for the production of hydrogen is described comprising the steps of: (i) subjecting a gaseous mixture comprising a hydrocarbon and steam to steam reforming in a reforming unit comprising an autothermal reformer to generate a reformed gas mixture; (ii) increasing the hydrogen content of the reformed gas mixture by subjecting it to one or more water-gas shift stages in a water-gas shift unit to provide a hydrogen-enriched reformed gas; (iii) passing the hydrogen-enriched reformed gas and an oxygen-rich gas to an oxidation unit containing an oxidation catalyst that converts carbon monoxide present in the hydrogen-enriched reformed gas to carbon dioxide, to form a carbon dioxide-enriched gas mixture; and (iv) passing the carbon dioxide-enriched gas mixture to a product separation unit to provide a hydrogen gas stream, a carbon dioxide gas stream and a by-product gas stream, wherein at least a portion of the by-product gas stream is compressed and recycled to one or more of the reforming unit, the water-gas-shift unit, the oxidation unit, and the product separation unit.

The invention relates to the technical field of intelligent control, and discloses a combined refrigeration liquefaction intelligent control system which comprises a natural gas combined refrigeration liquefaction process unit, a BOG recycling and isolated network power generation unit and a self-adaptive intelligent control system. The core of the system is that a safe, efficient and economical liquefaction recovery mode aiming at scattered gas well mouths which are short in life cycle, fast in gas quantity attenuation, weak in field infrastructure and simple in operation and maintenance personnel is realized through a combined refrigeration liquefaction process, BOG (Boil Off Gas) recovery and utilization, isolated network power supply and full-system self-adaptive intelligent control mode. And the adaptive intelligent control system evaluates the health condition of the equipment in real time and predicts the dynamic change of the process by constructing a digital twinborn model synchronous with the physical system. Based on the global optimization and self-healing control module, rolling optimization solution is carried out by taking a comprehensive operation cost as a target function, and a control instruction considering both production efficiency and equipment protection is generated.

The invention relates to an installation for liquefying hydrogen, comprising a circuit for hydrogen to be cooled, a set of heat exchanger(s) in heat exchange with the circuit, a cooling system comprising a refrigerator with a cycle of refrigeration of a first cycle gas comprising helium and / or hydrogen, the circuit comprising at least one catalysis section so as to ensure conversion of the ortho-hydrogen into para-hydrogen, the circuit further comprising a first bypass portion bypassing at least one catalysis section, the downstream end of the circuit comprising two parallel branches that are not combined and are supplied respectively with the hydrogen that has passed through the first bypass portion and hydrogen that has passed through the catalysis section so as to provide two distinct hydrogen streams that have different relative proportions of ortho-hydrogen and para-hydrogen.

The invention discloses a compressed carbon dioxide energy storage method and system coupled with a heat supply generator set. The method comprises the steps that S1, an energy storage medium is prepared, and energy is stored; s2, performing energy release; s3, the intelligent control module carries out cooperative regulation and control: collecting each energy flow parameter and each equipment stress parameter, carrying out grid division, and retaining each key solution based on epsilon-dominated solution distribution; constructing an objective function and setting constraint conditions; population updating is carried out on the target function, and a current optimal working condition and adjustment parameters of each device are obtained; and the intelligent control module controls the equipment. According to the invention, CO2 separated and purified from boiler flue gas is used as a cycle working medium, energy conversion core cycle of compression heat storage-expansion energy release is combined with a fused salt heat storage tank and intelligent control, efficient storage, release and poly-generation utilization of energy are realized, the core process comprises three stages of carbon medium preparation, energy storage and energy release, and the energy storage and the energy release are integrated. And poly-generation utilization and intelligent optimization control are realized.

The invention relates to the technical field of air separation, in particular to a pretreatment module of an air separation system, a high-purity air separation system and a control method.The pretreatment module comprises a precooling unit, and the precooling unit is connected with a cold source; the pre-cooling unit enables cooling water to circularly flow in the supercharging unit through a cooling water pipeline, and the supercharging unit comprises a first air compressor, a second air compressor, a high-temperature expansion machine supercharging end, a first supercharger after-cooler, a low-temperature expansion machine supercharging end and a second supercharger after-cooler which are sequentially connected in series through a main pipeline; supercharged and precooled air is expanded and cooled by the expansion unit and then enters the heat exchange unit; through the arrangement of the pre-cooling unit, the inlet and outlet temperatures of the high-temperature expansion machine and the low-temperature expansion machine are effectively controlled, reheated air returns to the air compressor, the expansion gas amount is increased, reheated gas continuously cools the air participating in rectification in the heat exchange unit, and in conclusion, the production energy consumption of a high-purity liquefied gas product is reduced.

The utility model discloses a recovery system for capturing carbon dioxide. The recovery system comprises a carbon capturing unit, a cooling unit, a drying unit, a liquefying unit and a storage unit which are sequentially connected through pipelines, after the carbon capture unit captures carbon dioxide, the carbon dioxide is cooled by the cooling unit and dried by the drying unit, then enters the liquefaction unit to be compressed and liquefied to form liquid carbon dioxide, and then the liquid carbon dioxide is conveyed to the storage unit to be stored. According to the utility model, CO2 after carbon capture can be stored after being cooled, pressurized and liquefied. The system integrates unloading and reliquefaction functions, liquid CO2 in the storage tank can be lighted to a CO2 receiver, and gaseous CO2 in the storage tank is returned to the storage tank for storage after being cooled, pressurized and liquefied. And the system is provided with a plurality of instruments and meters, so that the whole system is more automatic and safer to operate.

The invention discloses a hydrogen liquefaction control method and system based on AI decision making. The method comprises the steps that real-time operation data and parameters of a hydrogen liquefaction device are obtained; based on the real-time operation data and the parameters, a fuzzy clustering algorithm is utilized to identify the current working condition so as to determine the working condition type to which the current working condition belongs; based on the working condition type, a reinforcement learning algorithm is utilized to generate a target control strategy, and the target control strategy comprises at least one control strategy of the yield, the energy consumption and the equipment service life early warning of the hydrogen liquefaction device; and according to the target control strategy, utilizing a particle swarm optimization algorithm to adjust PID parameters of the hydrogen liquefaction device so as to control at least one of yield, energy consumption and equipment life early warning of the hydrogen liquefaction device. The response speed, stability and anti-disturbance capability of the control loop of the hydrogen liquefaction device can be improved, dependence on experience of operators is reduced, performance degradation of the hydrogen liquefaction device is avoided, and efficient operation of the hydrogen liquefaction device is guaranteed.

The invention discloses a system and a method for directly preparing ultra-pure nitrogen through rectification dehydrogenation, and relates to the technical field of ultra-pure nitrogen preparation. The system for directly preparing ultra-pure nitrogen through rectification dehydrogenation comprises a main heat exchanger, the bottom of the main rectifying tower is communicated with the main heat exchanger through a pipeline; the subcooler is communicated with the top of the main rectifying tower through a pipeline; the top of the dehydrogenation high-purity nitrogen tower is communicated with the subcooler through a pipeline, a nitrogen exhaust port is formed in the bottom of the dehydrogenation high-purity nitrogen tower along the height of the dehydrogenation high-purity nitrogen tower, and the nitrogen exhaust port is connected with the main heat exchanger through a pipeline. According to the invention, most of substances including oxygen, argon, methane and the like and having higher boiling points than nitrogen in raw material air are separated from nitrogen through the main rectifying tower, impurities having higher boiling points than nitrogen sink while hydrogen is evaporated through the dehydrogenation high-purity nitrogen tower, and vaporized ultra-pure nitrogen is taken out from the side surface of the dehydrogenation high-purity nitrogen tower, so that the purity of the raw material air is improved. Therefore, the purity of the prepared high-purity nitrogen is improved.

A device and a method for producing hydrogen and byproduct oxygen by using green electricity electrolyzed water are provided. The device comprises an oxygen purifying system, a heat exchange system, an air separation compression and expansion system, an air separation rectification system and a liquid oxygen storage system. The method comprises the following steps: first, purifying oxygen prepared by electrolyzing water by green electricity to remove impurities such as hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and water in the oxygen, then feeding the pure oxygen into the heat exchange system, performing heat exchange liquefaction to obtain liquid oxygen, coupling the liquid oxygen generated by rectification of the air separation rectification system, and obtaining pressurized oxygen through the heat exchange system and the air separation compression and expansion system.

A carbon capture system for an LNG fueled power plant (1) and method for LNG combustion and carbon capture, wherein the method comprises - gasifying the LNG stream by heating to obtain a gasified NG stream - combusting the gasified NG stream to obtain exhaust gas stream- separating water from the cooled exhaust gas stream to obtain a dry exhaust gas stream - adsorbing CO2 from the dry exhaust gas stream to obtain a CO2 depleted exhaust gas stream - desorbing CO2, pressurizing it and cooling it with the cold from the gasification of the LNG - separating CO2 from the desorbing stream.

The disclosure describes processes which include cooling a natural gas product stream to a cryogenic liquid storage temperature by way of refrigeration streams which include a primary refrigeration stream, a secondary refrigeration stream, and a tertiary refrigeration stream in a refrigeration system. After leaving the refrigeration system, the pressure of each refrigeration stream is increased, and upon reaching a sufficient pressure, the refrigeration streams are recycled to flow back into the refrigeration system as a recycle stream. The disclosure further describes systems capable of performing the processes. The processes and systems can include one or more sensors and one or more controls capable of adjusting a flow rate, flow volume, and / or flow ratio among one or more gas streams to maximize cooling efficiency based on monitoring from the one or more sensors. Mobile natural gas liquefaction systems are also described.

In a process in which ammonia is cracked to form a hydrogen gas product and an offgas comprising nitrogen gas, residual hydrogen gas and residual ammonia gas, residual ammonia is recovered from the offgas from the hydrogen recovery process by partial condensation and phase separation, and hydrogen is recovered from the resultant ammonia-lean offgas by partial condensation and phase separation. The recovered ammonia may be recycled the cracking process and the recovered hydrogen may be recycled to the hydrogen recovery process to improve hydrogen recovery from the cracked gas. Overall hydrogen recovery from the ammonia may thereby be increased to over 99%.

A cold energy recovery facility includes a liquid hydrogen tank configured to store liquid hydrogen a first circuit configured to circulate a first working medium, a second circuit configured to circulate a second working medium having a freezing point higher than the first working medium, a first turboexpander provided in the first circuit, the first turboexpander being configured to be driven by the first working medium in a gas state, a second turboexpander provided in the second circuit, the second turboexpander being configured to be driven by the second working medium in a gas state, a first heat exchanger configured to vaporize the liquid hydrogen from the liquid hydrogen tank by heat exchange with the first working medium, a second heat exchanger configured to vaporize the first working medium in a liquid state by heat exchange with the second working medium, and a third heat exchanger configured to vaporize the second working medium in a liquid state by heat exchange with a heat medium, wherein the first circuit and the first turboexpander form a part of a first thermodynamic cycle that uses the liquid hydrogen as a low-temperature heat source in the first heat exchanger, and the second circuit and the second turboexpander form a part of a second thermodynamic cycle that uses the first working medium as a low-temperature heat source in the second heat exchanger.

Provided are an air separation device and an air separation method that have high argon yield without increasing the heat transfer area of a deoxidized argon condenser that generates reflux liquid in an argon tower generating deoxidized argon to be used as a raw material in a high-purity argon tower. Specifically provided is an air separation device comprising: an argon tower (700) that distills argon-containing oxygen drawn from a low-pressure tower (600) and generates deoxidized argon from which oxygen has been removed; a deoxidized argon condenser (400) that generates reflux liquid in the argon tower (700); a high-purity argon tower (800) that distills deoxidized argon and extracts pure argon from which nitrogen has been removed; a high-purity argon condenser (900) that generates reflux liquid for the top portion of the high-purity argon tower (800); a high-purity argon evaporator (910) that generates ascending gas for the bottom portion of the high-purity argon tower (800); a pipeline (622) that sends liquid nitrogen to the high-purity argon condenser (900) as a cooling medium; and a pipeline (42) that sends liquid derived from a high-pressure tower (500) to the high-purity argon evaporator (910) as a heating medium.

The application discloses a modular hydrogen liquefaction system, comprising: one or more parallelly arranged liquefaction modules, a hydrogen inlet of the liquefaction module being connected with a hydrogen source, and a product outlet of the liquefaction module being connected with one or more parallelly arranged liquid hydrogen storage tanks; each of the liquefaction modules is an integrated structure capable of hydrogen cooling, liquefaction, primary and secondary hydrogen conversion and independent start and stop. The application realizes hydrogen liquefaction by connecting a large number of refrigeration units in series and in parallel to form modules at different levels, can effectively utilize the benefit of large-scale production of standard refrigeration units, and reduces equipment cost. By controlling the number of different level modules and refrigeration units to be started, the application can also realize large-range liquid hydrogen production capacity adjustment. In addition, by using a regenerative refrigerator as a standard refrigeration unit, rapid cooling and instant shutdown can be realized, so that the system has the advantages of rapid start and stop. The above advantages make the application particularly suitable for matching with renewable energy to produce green liquid hydrogen.

An installation comprising an LNG production facility, and a renewable electricity facility for producing renewable electricity, the LNG production facility comprising:a plurality of units,at least one thermal energy storage system for storing electricity as thermal energy, and for converting at least part of the stored thermal energy into electricity, heat and / or cold.The installation is adapted for switching between a charge configuration, wherein the renewable electricity facility produces said renewable electricity stored in the thermal energy storage system and supplied to one or several of the units, and a discharge configuration, wherein the thermal energy storage system converts some of the stored thermal energy into at least one of said electricity, heat or cold, for supplying one or several of the units.

The utility model discloses a system for efficiently preparing liquid nitrogen by using a two-stage membrane separation technology, and relates to the technical field of industrial purification and liquefied nitrogen. The membrane separation technology and the gas liquefaction technology are combined, so that nitrogen in air is purified, the residual pressure of medium-pressure gas is fully utilized to provide cold energy for high-concentration nitrogen liquefaction, and the residual potential energy of the high-concentration gas is utilized to improve the nitrogen generation efficiency. A compressor, a gas cooling module, a first-stage separator and a second-stage separator of the system are sequentially arranged in the flowing direction of air. A high-pressure outlet of the second-stage separator is communicated with a first hot end inlet of the first heat exchanger; a first outlet of the first heat exchanger is communicated with a hot end inlet of the second heat exchanger, a second hot end inlet is communicated with a side backpressure outlet of the first-stage separator, a second outlet is communicated with a cold end inlet of the second heat exchanger through an expansion machine, a third outlet is communicated with atmosphere, and the cold end inlet is communicated with a second outlet of the second heat exchanger; and a side backpressure outlet of the second-stage separator is communicated with the compressor.

The invention discloses a liquid air energy storage and low-temperature air separation combined system and method, which comprises an air compression subsystem, an air purification subsystem, a heat storage subsystem, a liquid gasification subsystem, a cold storage subsystem, an energy release power generation subsystem, a low-temperature air molecular system and a central cooperative control module, the air compression subsystem is composed of multiple sections of compressor units, an interstage cooler and related pipeline valves, and the interstage cooler is connected with the heat storage subsystem. According to the low-temperature air separation system, high-energy-consumption compression expansion equipment does not need to be independently built in a matched mode, the investment cost of the system is greatly reduced, and the low-temperature air separation system can achieve air separation production only through air raw materials continuously provided by the liquid air energy storage system and cold energy supply; compression power consumption in a traditional low-temperature air separation system is greatly reduced, and meanwhile waste of compression heat energy is reduced.

Systems and methods for processing fuel cell exhaust, combustion exhaust, and / or combinations of fuel cell exhaust and combustion exhaust are provided. The systems can include exhaust processing assemblies.

Pure liquid nitrogen, liquid air or dirty liquid nitrogen generated by a rectifying tower of the air separation device is subjected to secondary pressurization through a hydraulic pump and then enters a main heat exchanger or a recooling device to recover cold energy, and high-pressure gas formed by heat absorption and gasification enters a high-pressure expansion machine to expand and do work; exhaust gas of the high-pressure expansion machine enters the rectifying tower to provide cold energy required by air separation, and pure nitrogen, waste nitrogen and pure oxygen which are discharged from the rectifying tower and are subjected to cold energy recovery through the main heat exchanger are output. The purposes of energy conservation and consumption reduction of the air separation device are achieved through the processes of primary pressurization of the compressor, secondary pressurization of the hydraulic pump, cold returning, gasification and expansion.

The present application relates to a kind of natural gas combustion flue gas separation utilization method and its system, comprising the following steps: S1, the flue gas to be treated is catalytically oxidized, so that residual oxygen in flue gas is fully reacted and eliminated;S2, flue gas enters preheater, heat exchange is carried out in preheater, so that the heat of flue gas is reduced;S3, compressor is used to compress flue gas, the temperature of flue gas is increased after being compressed by compressor, high temperature flue gas enters heat exchanger and is cooled by cooling water, wherein the water vapor contained is formed into liquid after cooling and discharged etc..The present application has the advantages that: flue gas generated by natural gas combustion is compressed and two-stage expansion refrigeration is used, liquid carbon dioxide and liquid nitrogen are separated in turn. The separation and utilization of natural gas combustion flue gas are realized, and the carbon dioxide discharged to the atmosphere is significantly reduced.

Disclosed herein is a control system for a reliquefaction system for ships, in which boil-off gas generated from liquefied gas in an onboard storage tank is compressed by a compressor and the compressed boil-off gas is cooled and reliquefied through a heat exchanger. The control system includes: a reliquefaction line connecting the compressor to the storage tank; a control valve disposed downstream of the heat exchanger on the reliquefaction line to adjust a flow rate of boil-off gas flowing through the reliquefaction line; a flow rate regulator configured to control a degree of opening of the control valve; and a load controller configured to send a signal for adjusting a load of the reliquefaction system to the flow rate regulator, wherein, in the event of changes in load of the reliquefaction system, the load controller sends a predetermined set point indicative of a boil-off gas flow rate at a corresponding load to the flow rate regulator to adjust the load of the reliquefaction system.

The invention discloses a multifunctional air separation device for preparing liquid oxygen by liquefying air and nitrogen through a liquid oxygen self-pressurization evaporator and pouring liquid nitrogen backwards. Comprising an air filtering and compressing system, a pre-cooling system, an air purifying unit, a main heat exchanger, a liquid oxygen evaporator, a low-pressure expansion machine, a rectifying tower, a liquid air and liquid nitrogen subcooler, a high-purity oxygen tower, an argon extracting system, a medium-pressure nitrogen pipe network, a liquid oxygen pipe network, a nitrogen liquefier, a heat exchanger I and a gas-liquid separator, the output of the liquid oxygen evaporator is provided with a pressure oxygen pipeline, the pressure oxygen pipeline exchanges heat through the main heat exchanger and then is output and stored, the output of the bottom of the liquid oxygen evaporator is provided with a product liquid oxygen pipeline, the medium-pressure nitrogen pipe network is output to the nitrogen liquefier through the heat exchanger I, the input of the liquid oxygen pipe network is connected with the nitrogen liquefier, and the nitrogen liquefier is connected with the gas-liquid separator. The hydrogen-free argon production process and the oxygen external compression mode are adopted, the liquid oxygen self-pressurization function is achieved, air and nitrogen are liquefied, and the multifunctional characteristic is achieved.