2770results about "Gaseous fuels" patented technology

An improved method and apparatus for removing acid gases and other impurities from raw biogas streams, such as biogas from landfills or biogas from controlled anaerobic digestion, is disclosed. The method provides efficient generation of high-purity renewable natural gas from raw biogas. The biogas is treated in a multi-stage membrane system integrated with compression equipment. The membrane separation units are arranged into interconnected high-pressure and low-pressure gas recycling loops powered by high-pressure and low-pressure compressors. The multi-stage membrane system can be integrated with deoxygenation and auxiliary nitrogen removal systems. The combined system provides for the generation of efficient contaminant removal from raw biogas to generate high-purity methane products with reduced compression energy consumption.

Disclosed herein are membrane-based gas separation methods and systems. The methods and systems may, in particular, be used for separating a feed stream comprising methane and carbon dioxide (such as for example a biogas feed stream) in order to provide a methane product stream (such as for example a biomethane stream).

An improved method and apparatus for removing acid gases and other impurities from raw biogas streams, such as biogas from landfills or biogas from controlled anaerobic digestion, is disclosed. The method provides efficient generation of high-purity renewable natural gas from raw biogas. The biogas is treated in a multi-stage membrane system integrated with compression equipment. The membrane separation stages are integrated with high-pressure and low-pressure compressors with the low-pressure compressor operating in a defined pressure range. The combined system provides for efficient contaminant removal from raw biogas to generate high-purity methane products with reduced membrane area and compression energy consumption.

The invention discloses a system and a method for classified sewage treatment, and belongs to the technical field of environmental engineering and water treatment. The system comprises the following components: an intelligent water quality detection module, which is used for real-time and accurate monitoring of COD, BOD, ammonia nitrogen, total phosphorus, suspended matter concentration and heavy metal content; the sectional bioreactor realizes deep removal of nitrogen and phosphorus and efficient biological treatment by flexibly adjusting reaction conditions of each section; the intelligent flocculation control module is used for automatically and accurately adjusting the adding amount of a flocculating agent, and is combined with integrated operation of efficient inclined tube precipitation and sludge concentration, so that the water quality of discharged water is stable, and the medicament consumption is reduced; the ultrafiltration membrane bioreactor effectively removes residual suspended matters and colloids, and ensures that the effluent stably reaches the standard for a long time through the synergistic effect of catalytic ozonation; and the sludge treatment module is used for realizing collaborative optimization management of sludge reduction, recycling and energy recycling.

The invention provides a coal mine ventilation air methane synergistic enrichment and fluidized heat storage combustion system and method. The system comprises an air shaft diffusion tower and a ventilation air methane collecting device, the method comprises the following steps: collection and compression of ventilation air methane, cooling and boosting adsorption of an adsorption tower, pressure drop equalization of the adsorption tower, temperature rise, pressure reduction and desorption of the adsorption tower, pressure rise equalization of the adsorption tower, periodic cycle work of the adsorption tower, preheating of a packed bed of a heat storage furnace, fluidized heat storage oxidation of coal gangue and gas, and waste heat recovery and utilization. According to the invention, safe and efficient enrichment of ventilation air methane can be realized, and fluidized heat storage oxidation coupling utilization of concentrated gas and coal gangue particles can be realized; the oxidation waste heat is used as a generator heat source; the carbon reduction scheme of large-scale separation and concentration-synergistic oxidation-efficient utilization of the oversize coal mine ventilation air methane is formed, the coal industry is assisted to achieve the goal of'two wastes' and sustainable development, and large-flow, low-cost, safe and efficient treatment and utilization of the ventilation air methane discharged by an oversize low-gas mine can be achieved.

The invention provides a method for rapidly preparing an SSZ-13 molecular sieve membrane based on a double-template system, and belongs to the field of preparation and application of molecular sieve membrane materials. The polymer ammonium is introduced into the sol and seed crystal suspension, so that the nucleation and crystallization process in the synthesis system is obviously accelerated, the traditional synthesis time can be shortened by 50% or above, and the rapid growth of the SSZ-13 seed crystal on the surface of the porous carrier is realized. Based on the synergistic effect of the double template agents, the preparation repeatability of the SSZ-13 molecular sieve membrane is effectively improved, and large-scale application of high-quality membrane products is facilitated. The SSZ-13 molecular sieve membrane shows excellent separation performance in CO2 / CH4 mixed gas, and has remarkable industrial application value in the field of natural gas decarburization.

The invention belongs to the technical field of natural gas transportation and distribution filtration of natural gas stations, and relates to a filter and a filter element backwashing method thereof without stopping natural gas transportation and distribution filtration. The filter comprises a main cylinder, a main filter element and a backwashing device, wherein the backwashing device comprises an air blowing cylinder arranged in the main filter element, a high-pressure hose used for conveying high-pressure gas into the air blowing cylinder and a driving mechanism used for driving the air blowing cylinder to reciprocate in the main filter element in the axial direction; the air blowing cylinder is of a cylindrical structure with two closed ends, and a plurality of air blowing holes are formed in the side wall; the high-pressure hose is located in the main filter element, the bottom end of the high-pressure hose is connected to the top end of the air blowing cylinder, the top end of the high-pressure hose is externally connected with a high-pressure air supply source, and high-pressure air entering the air blowing cylinder is blown out through the air blowing holes to backwash the main filter element from inside to outside. The air blowing cylinder of the filter can perform movable backwashing in the main filter element, so that the whole main filter element is helped to recover the filtering effect, and the backwashing device can independently operate to backwash the main filter element while the filter continuously filters natural gas.

The invention relates to a preparation method of a normal-temperature normal-pressure efficient gas adsorption composite material. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, pretreating activated carbon to obtain surface-OH modified mesoporous activated carbon; then modifying the surface-OH modified mesoporous activated carbon with the ZIF-8 material to obtain ZIF-8 (at) OH-AC; and finally, performing surface hydrophobization modification to obtain the adsorption material. Wherein in the modification process, ZIF-8 is firmly loaded and uniformly distributed on the surface of hydroxyl-modified mesoporous activated carbon by adopting an in-situ growth technology, the interface bonding force is enhanced, the loading capacity of the activated carbon on the MOFs material is improved, and by utilizing the chemical adsorption effect of ZIF-8 Zn < 2 + > and methane and the high porosity of the mesoporous activated carbon, the MOFs material can be prepared. The adsorption capacity of the composite material to methane is greatly improved, meanwhile, the moisture resistance of the composite material is effectively improved, the composite material can still keep stable and efficient adsorption performance in a high-humidity environment, and the problem that an existing material is prone to inactivation in a humid environment is solved.

A device for separating a gas stream which has a compressor and three membrane separation units in series, connected to pass the retentate stream of each of the first two units to the subsequent membrane separation unit, comprises conduits for recycling the permeate streams of the second and the third membrane separation unit to upstream of the compressor and a control device controlling the fraction of the second permeate stream which is recycled. Adjusting which fraction of the second permeate is recycled can be used to maintain a target composition of the retentate obtained in the third membrane separation unit when the flow rate or the composition of the gas stream changes.

A process and / or system for processing a pressurized gas mixture by membrane separation. Portions of the pressurized gas mixture are withdrawn and provided as a plurality of pressurized gas streams at successively lower pressures. Each portion, provided as a respective pressurized gas stream, is provided for processing in a respective membrane system, each of which is at a different pressure level. Partially purified streams produced by one or more membrane systems are provided for processing at lower pressure levels (e.g., where they are combined with one of the pressurized gas streams). Accordingly, costs associated with recycle compression are reduced and / or eliminated.

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.

The invention relates to the technical field of natural gas separation, in particular to a natural gas pipeline oil mist separation system which comprises a gas inlet end, an oil mist separation mechanism, an exhaust end and an oil dirt discharge mechanism, the gas inlet end comprises a natural gas inlet main pipe and two natural gas inlet branch pipes, and the natural gas inlet branch pipes are connected with a filtering device; the two groups of oil mist separation mechanisms are fixedly mounted on the filtering device and are used for separating and removing oil mist in the natural gas; the exhaust end comprises a natural gas outlet main pipe and two natural gas outlet branch pipes; and the oil mist discharging mechanism is connected with the oil mist separating mechanism and is used for recovering and treating the oil mist. The filtering device comprises a filter, and a filtering assembly composed of a filter element support, a coalescence sintering type filter element and a bearing is arranged in the filtering device. The oil mist separation mechanism comprises a high-pressure steam source, a steam conveying pipe, a steam branch pipe and a blade, and oil mist separation is achieved through steam injection. Oil mist in natural gas can be effectively separated, and the filtering efficiency and the natural gas quality are improved.

The invention belongs to the technical field of natural gas dehydration, and particularly relates to dehydration equipment and method for liquefied natural gas purification, the dehydration equipment comprises a three-way pipe, a barrel and a dismounting mechanism, and a molecular sieve assembly is arranged in the barrel; the dismounting mechanism comprises a core shaft, a mounting block, a first clamping seat, a second clamping seat, a fixed ring and a sliding ring, one side of the mounting block is connected with the core shaft, the bottom side of the mounting block extends to be provided with a supporting block, and the first clamping seat is connected with the supporting block; the tail end of a piston rod of the hydraulic cylinder is hinged to the bottom end of the connecting rod; a fixed ring is fixedly arranged at the bottom end of the barrel, and a sliding ring is slidably arranged at the upper end of the barrel; when the second clamping base rotates to the position over the first clamping base, the barrel is in a vertical installation state. And when the second clamping seat rotates in the direction away from the mounting block, the barrel is in a horizontal disassembly state. According to the structure, the molecular sieve of the small-sized modular molecular sieve dehydration system can be conveniently disassembled and assembled; and the operations of natural gas dehydration and molecular sieve regeneration can be simultaneously performed.

A method is provided for synthesizing bio-based LPG from renewable sources via a bio-based synthetic gas feedstock, using a solvent absorption process and a solid adsorption process for recovering LPG in high yield while providing for high recovery and reuse, with low pressure drop, of unreacted synthesis gas components.

A method is provided for synthesizing bio-based LPG from renewable sources via a bio-based synthetic gas feedstock, in a dual-stage reaction system comprising an oxygenate synthesis reaction zone and an oxygenate conversion reaction zone that are configured for producing and converting a methanol intermediate for reduced CO2 selectivity. The method includes recovering LPG from either the full reaction zone effluent or from a purge stream separated from the full reaction zone effluent for LPG recovery.

The utility model relates to desulfurization equipment, belongs to the technical field of natural gas desulfurization, and particularly relates to desulfurization equipment for natural gas, which comprises a shell, a rotating pipe is rotatably connected to the top of the shell, and an external pipe is rotatably connected to the top end of the rotating pipe; through the arrangement of the desulfurization mechanism, natural gas is guided into liquid medicine through a gas inlet pipe and a movable pipe, so that the natural gas is in contact with the liquid medicine and is desulfurized, a motor drives a rotating pipe, a liquid spraying pipe and a liquid spraying head to rotate through two gears, so that the liquid spraying head uniformly sprays liquid, and the rotating pipe rotates to drive a fixed rod and a stirring rod to rotate; the stirring rod rotates to scatter natural gas bubbles, the stirring rod rotates to drive a vertical rod to rotate, the vertical rod rotates to drive a movable pipe and a jet head to stretch out and draw back through a strip-shaped ring, natural gas can make uniform contact with liquid medicine, the natural gas can make full contact with the liquid medicine, and the problem that the sprayed liquid medicine cannot make full contact with the natural gas is solved. The desulfurization effect on the natural gas is not ideal.

A gas separation membrane comprising the following layers: (i) optionally a support layer; (ii) a discriminating layer; (iii) a further layer; and (iv) optionally a protective layer; wherein (a) the further layer (iii) and the discriminating layer (ii) each independently comprise groups of Formula (1): M-(O—)x wherein: each M independently is a metal or metalloid atom; O is an oxygen atom; and each x independently has a value of at least 4; (b) the further layer (iii) comprises 1.5 to 10 atomic % of M of Formula (1) groups, wherein M is as hereinbefore defined; and (c) the discriminating layer (ii) comprises more than 10 atomic % of M of Formula (1) groups, wherein M is as hereinbefore defined.

A system for separating a gas mixture is provided. The system includes a source of a gas mixture and a membrane separation stage including a gas separation membrane module. The membrane separation stage is in fluid communication with the source of the gas mixture, and the gas separation membrane module is configured to separate the gas mixture into a retentate stream and a permeate stream. The gas separation membrane module also includes a membrane having a permeate side and a retentate side. A sweep stream is provided to the permeate side of the membrane, the sweep stream comprising a portion of the retentate stream.

A process and / or system for producing fuel using renewable hydrogen having a reduced carbon intensity. The renewable hydrogen is produced in a hydrogen production process comprising methane reforming, wherein at least a portion of the feedstock for the hydrogen production process comprises upgraded biogas sourced from a plurality of biogas plants. Each of the upgraded biogases is produced in a process that includes collecting biogas comprising methane and carbon dioxide, capturing at least 50% of the carbon dioxide originally present in the collected biogas and producing the upgraded biogas. Storage of the captured carbon dioxide reducing a carbon intensity of the fuel, without having to provide carbon capture and storage of carbon dioxide from hydrogen production.

The utility model belongs to the technical field of biomass biogas treatment, and discloses a biogas filtering device which comprises a tank body, a wire mesh demister and a cleaner, and the tank body is provided with a gas inlet, a gas outlet and a water outlet; the interior of the tank body is divided into an upper cavity and a lower cavity by the wire mesh demister, the upper cavity is communicated with the air outlet, and the lower cavity is respectively communicated with the air inlet and the water outlet; the cleaners are connected with the tank body through flanges, each cleaner comprises a water inlet end and a water outlet end, the number of the cleaners is two, and the two water outlet ends extend into the upper cavity and the lower cavity respectively and face the wire mesh demister. Through the arrangement of the cleaner, the wire mesh demister can be quickly cleaned, the time cost and the labor cost required for disassembling the tank body and the wire mesh demister are saved, and the biogas treatment efficiency is effectively improved.

The invention provides a ship LNG fuel supply and tail gas carbon dioxide capture system. The ship LNG fuel supply and tail gas carbon dioxide capture system comprises an LNG storage tank, a CO2 separation device, a CO2 compressor, an ejector, an LNG vaporization heater, a mixed gas heat exchanger, a flash tank, a liquid CO2 storage tank, a flue gas heat exchanger and an engine. According to the system, LNG cold energy and engine tail gas heat energy can be effectively utilized, and the energy consumption of the system is reduced.

Disclosed are multi-cartridge hollow fiber membrane apparatuses and methods for gas separation using them. Each external pressure type membrane apparatus contains one or more series of cartridges wherein the cartridges within each series are arranged sequentially. The retentate gas generated by each preceding cartridge in the series is used as a feed gas to the next cartridge in the series, and the permeate gas generated by a cartridge following the first cartridge in the series is used as a sweep gas on the permeate side of the preceding cartridge. The multicomponent gas mixture is separated into one or more products by the method of the invention with improved product recovery and / or product purity.

An improved method and apparatus for removing acid gases and other impurities from raw biogas streams, such as biogas from landfills or biogas from controlled anaerobic digestion, is disclosed. The method provides efficient generation of high-purity renewable natural gas from raw biogas. The biogas is treated in a multi-stage membrane system integrated with compression equipment. The membrane separation units are arranged into interconnected high-pressure and low-pressure gas recycling loops powered by high-pressure and low-pressure compressors. The multi-stage membrane system can be integrated with deoxygenation and auxiliary nitrogen removal systems. The combined system provides for the generation of efficient contaminant removal from raw biogas to generate high-purity methane products with reduced compression energy consumption.

The invention discloses a metal-doped modified zeolite molecular sieve adsorbent as well as a preparation method and application thereof. The metal-doped modified zeolite molecular sieve adsorbent comprises a carrier and an active metal component loaded on the carrier, the carrier is a mordenite molecular sieve; the active metal components comprise at least two of Ca, Mg, Ti, Fe, Ni, Co, Cu, Zn, Na and Ag; in the adsorbent, the loading capacity of the active metal component is 0.1%-15%. The adsorbent provided by the invention has good separation performance on CH4 / CO2, CH4 / N2, CO2 / N2 and CH4 / CO2 / N2 mixed gas separation systems, has the advantages of simple synthesis method, strong hydrothermal stability, high selectivity and the like, and can meet the requirements of CH4 purification in unconventional natural gas such as landfill gas, sewage treatment methane gas, agricultural and breeding biogas, coal bed gas, shale gas and shallow biogas, and the like. And the requirements of high-concentration natural gas denitrification, CO2 capture and other scenes can be met.

The invention discloses non-contact natural gas dehydration heating equipment, and relates to the technical field of natural gas processing. The first spiral heating pipe and the second spiral heating pipe which are spirally and crossly arranged are arranged in the isolation heating barrel, so that sufficient heat exchange is realized in the natural gas conveying process. Natural gas and high-temperature water are heated in an isolated mode, water mist carried in the natural gas can be effectively evaporated, and the water-vapor separation efficiency is improved. Compared with the traditional single-stage heat exchange pipeline design, the staggered spiral pipe increases the heating area and the heat transfer path, so that fine water mist particles in natural gas can be completely gasified, and a good premise is provided for subsequent condensation separation; and the condensation separation sheet adopts a rotary structure, and the surface is provided with a groove, so that the condensation area and the water drop adhesion capability are obviously increased. Meanwhile, centrifugal force is generated in the rotating process of the separating pieces, condensate water can be rapidly thrown away from the surface, enters the collecting tank and is guided to the water storage pond, and water drops are prevented from being mixed into natural gas again.

A gas separation system for producing a CH4-enriched gas from a feedstock gas containing CO2 and CH4, including a first gas separation membrane unit and a second gas separation membrane unit, in which the gas separation system includes a feedstock gas supply line connected to a gas inlet of the first gas separation membrane unit; a compression part disposed in the feedstock gas supply line; a first line connecting the retentate gas outlet of the first gas separation membrane unit and the gas inlet of the second gas separation membrane unit; a second line connecting the permeate gas outlet of the second gas separation membrane unit and the feedstock gas supply line; and a cooling part for lowering the operating temperature of the second gas separation membrane unit below the operating temperature of the first gas separation membrane unit.

A method for producing a fuel includes transporting one or more pressure vessels containing pressurized biogas from a first location to a second location, and removing biogas from the one or more pressure vessels at the second location. The fuel production process is improved by controlling the decanting flow rate to provide a total decant time greater than 30-40 minutes, by actively heating biogas contained within the one or more pressure vessels, or some combination thereof.

A method is provided for synthesizing bio-based LPG from renewable sources via a bio-based synthetic gas feedstock, in a dual-stage reaction system comprising an oxygenate synthesis reaction zone and an oxygenate conversion reaction zone that are configured for producing and converting a methanol intermediate for reduced CO2 selectivity. The method includes recovering LPG from either the full reaction zone effluent or from a purge stream separated from the full reaction zone effluent for LPG recovery.

The utility model relates to the field of natural gas dehydration, and discloses a natural gas cold energy dehumidification system which comprises a dehumidification structure and a water storage buffer tank, a flow meter is arranged on a gas inlet pipe of a high-pressure natural gas pipeline, the dehumidification structure comprises a dehumidification box body communicated with the high-pressure natural gas pipeline, and a heat exchange pipeline is arranged in the dehumidification box body. Low-temperature flash steam circulates in the heat exchange pipeline, a flow control valve used for controlling the flow of the low-temperature flash steam is arranged on the heat exchange pipeline, the bottom of the dehumidification box communicates with a water storage buffer tank through a pipeline, and a drainage valve is arranged at the bottom of the water storage buffer tank. Natural gas in the high-pressure natural gas conveying pipeline is cooled through low-temperature flash steam guided out of the LNG storage tank, so that water vapor mixed in the natural gas is liquefied when meeting cold, collected condensate water is discharged in time, the dehumidification system can continuously and automatically work, the water vapor content in the natural gas is reduced, and the energy consumption is reduced. The dehumidification device has the advantages of simple structure, low cost and excellent dehumidification effect.

A system for processing a natural gas stream includes a flow-through turboexpander generator, a throttle valve, a knockout separator, and an absorption separator. The flow-through turboexpander generator is configured to receive a first portion of the natural gas stream and generate electrical power in response to expansion of the first portion of the natural gas stream. The throttle valve is configured to reduce a pressure of a second portion of the natural gas stream. The knockout separator is configured to receive the first portion of the natural gas stream from the flow-through turboexpander generator and configured to separate phases of the first portion of the natural gas stream to produce at least a gaseous phase and an aqueous phase. The absorption separator is configured to receive the gaseous phase from the separator vessel and separate water from the gaseous phase to produce a dehydrated natural gas stream.