1888 results about "Methanation" patented technology

The present invention relates to processes for preparing gaseous products, and in particular, methane via the catalytic gasification of carbonaceous feedstocks in the presence of steam. The processes comprise using at least one methanation step to convert carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the gaseous products to methane and do not recycle carbon monoxide or hydrogen to the catalytic gasifier.

The present invention relates to processes for preparing gaseous products, and in particular methane and/other value added gases such as hydrogen, via the catalytic hydromethanation of a carbonaceous feedstock in the presence of steam and syngas, wherein a hydromethanation reactor is combined with a syngas generator in a particular combination.

The present invention relates to processes for preparing gaseous products, and in particular methane, via the hydromethanation of carbonaceous feedstocks in the presence of steam, carbon monoxide, hydrogen and a hydromethanation catalyst.

The production of synthetic natural gas from a carbonaceous material, preferably a biomass material, such as wood. The carbonaceous material is first pyrolyzed, then subjected to steam reforming to produce a syngas, which is then passed to several clean-up steps then to a methanation zone to produce synthetic natural gas.

Disclosed is a method which uses coke-oven gas as the raw material to produce liquefied natural gas; the method includes that the coke-oven gas is pretreated firstly to enable the tar, naphthalene and benzene impurities contained in the coke-oven gas to be purified deeply; and the purified coke-oven gas is processed with methanation reaction after compression and desulfurization; the liquefied natural gas product which contains CH4 with the content of more than 85% through the cryogenic separation process; the residual non-condensable gas is prepared to obtain the hydrogen with the purity of 99% through the PSA separation technique; the residual desorbed gas can be used as manufactured gas. The method which uses the coke-oven gas as the raw material to produce liquefied natural gas has the advantages of making full use of the compositions, saving energy, water and the investment, simple process and realizing the trinity coordinated development of economy, environment and energy sources.

A method for synthesizing and producing natural gas by hydrogen of coal gas and its synthesizer are disclosed. The process is carried out by purifying tar, crude removing sulfur, ammonia, benzene and naphthalene, compressing to 0.5-5.0 MPa, removing sulfur impurities, supplementing carbon 5-20 wt%, and methanation reacting to obtain final product. It saves energy resources and has no environmental pollution.

The invention discloses a catalyst for methanation of carbon dioxide-containing synthesis gas, which is characterized by comprising the following components in percentage by weight: 5 to 65 percent of active component, 0 to 45 percent of metal assistant and 25 to 90 percent of carrier; and the calculation of the catalyst is based on the weights of an active component element, a metal assistant element and the carrier. The catalyst has the advantages of catalyzing the carbon dioxide-containing synthesis gas to perform methanation and running efficiently and stably.

The invention provides a method for producing synthetic natural gas and a device thereof. The continuous technological process of the invention is realized in a way that gasified product gas is used as the raw material for producing high methane gas containing more than 94 mol% of methane. The method can well adjust the methanation reaction temperature and avoid the problems of catalyst temperature-runaway sintering and the like due to improper material composition, excessive fluctuation or unexpected accident, thereby reducing the recycle gas amount and enhancing the energy comprehensive utilization efficiency.

Provided is a new catalyst capable of removing carbon monoxide economically without adding particular reaction gas externally. Also provided are a process for producing and an apparatus using such a catalyst. Impregnation of a Ni—Al composite oxide precursor of a nonstoichiometric composition prepared by the solution-spray plasma technique with a ruthenium salt to be supported and performing reduction treatment allows CO methanation reaction to selectively proceed even in the high-temperature range in which CO₂ methanation reaction and reverse water-gas-shift reaction proceed preferentially with conventional catalysts. Selective CO methanation reaction occurs reproducibly with another Ni—Al composite oxide precursor or an additive metallic species. Also, the low-temperature activity of CO methanation reaction can be improved through steps different from conventional catalyst production processes in producing such a catalyst material, whereby the temperature window the resulting catalyst material has can be utilized most effectively.

The invention discloses the method for producing natural gas with coking gas, comprising the following steps: purifying coking gas and removing benzene, naphthalene, hydrocarbon and sulphide, compressing, heat transferring, carrying out methanation reaction with catalyst, hydrogen in COG reacting with carbonic oxide and carbon dioxide to get methane; putting the mixture gas into pressure swing adsorbing device, and getting natural gas whose concentration is 90%. The natural gas has high caloric value, low impurity content.

The invention discloses a process for synthesizing natural gas by methanation of coal synthesis gas, which comprises the following steps of: dispersing a fresh methanation catalyst into an inert liquid medium, delivering the medium into a slurry bed methanation reactor to perform reduction, performing methanation reaction on the transformed methanation raw gas after the reduction is finished, delivering the tail gas to a gas-liquid separator I, discharging the slurry liquid component and the catalyst in the tail gas from the bottom of the gas-liquid separator I, discharging the gas phase in the tail gas from the top of the gas-liquid separator I, delivering partial slurry liquid component containing the catalyst into a gas-liquid separator II, discharging the gas phase from the top of thegas-liquid separator II, merging the gas phases discharged from the tops of the gas-liquid separators I and II, cooling and purifying the gas phases to obtain synthesized natural gas, discharging theslurry liquid component containing the catalyst from the bottom of the gas-liquid separator II, merging the slurry liquid component discharged from the bottom of the gas-liquid separator II and the slurry liquid component and the catalyst discharged from the bottom of the gas-liquid separator I, discharging 1 to 5 percent of the weight sum of the slurry liquid component and the catalyst separatedfrom the two gas-liquid separators, and performing methanation reaction on the cooled rest slurry liquid component and catalyst and the fresh methanation catalyst dispersed into the insert liquid medium together. The process has the advantages of low power consumption and low equipment investment, and is easy to operate.

The invention relates to a comprehensive utilization synthesis process of natural gas employing methanation of coke oven gas, belonging to the technical field of new energy utilization. The process comprises the following steps: compressing coke oven gas, preliminary cleaning, removing sulfur, performing first section methanation, performing second section methanation and separating natural gas toprepare natural gas which reaches the grade A technological requirements of natural gas national standard (GB17820-1999). The synthesis process of natural gas employing methanation of coke oven gas reaches the aim of high effective comprehensive utilization of natural gas and provides a new way of preparing and synthesizing natural gas.

A catalyst that oxidizes carbon monoxide includes a bimetal consisting of platinum and a transition metal in a bimetallic phase that is loaded on γ-alumina support. The catalyst is manufactured by uniformly mixing a platinum precursor, a transition metal precursor, and γ-alumina (γ-Al₂O₃) in a dispersion medium to provide a mixture; drying the mixture; calcining the dried mixture; and reducing the calcined dried mixture. Since the catalyst that oxidizes carbon monoxide has high reaction activity even at low temperature and excellent reaction selectivity, and a methanation reaction and reoxidization do not occur, and the catalyst can effectively eliminate carbon monoxide in the fuel.

The invention discloses a load type sulfur-tolerant methanation catalyst, which is characterized by taking a main metal M as an active component, a second metal M1 as an auxiliary agent and S as a carrier, and consisting of the metal M, the metal M1 and the carrier S, wherein the mass ratio of the M1 to the M to the S is 0.01-39:1-30:0.01-90; the main metal M is one or more of Mo, W and V; the second metal M1 is one or more of Fe, Co, Ni, Cr, Mn, La, Y or Ce; and the carrier S is SiO2, ZrO2, Al2O3, MgO or TiO2. The load type sulfur-tolerant methanation catalyst is prepared by a sol-gel method. The metallic carbide catalyst prepared by the method has the advantages of low cost, high specific area, small particles, high methane selectivity and better sulfur tolerance when used for CO hydrogenation methanation reaction, and the like.

SNG plants according to the inventive subject matter include one or more methanation reactors that produce a primary methanation product that is cooled to a temperature sufficient to condense water, which is removed in a separator. So produced dried methanation product is then split to provide a reflux stream to the methanation reactors and a feed stream to an adiabatic trim reactor. Most preferably, the plant comprises at least two methanation reactors that are operated in series, wherein the first reactor receives the recycle stream and wherein the second reactor receives a portion of the first methanation reactor effluent and a portion of the first methanation reactor feed.

The invention discloses a methanation reaction technique using oven gas for preparing synthetic natural gas. A multilevel methanation reactor is adopted to control the temperature of gas at the inlet of every level of methanation reactor and the total content of CO+CO2 in the gas at the inlet to be less than or equal to 3.5%, so as to ensure the temperature of gas at the outlet of every level of methanation reactor to be less than or equal to 450 DEG C after methanation. By adopting the technique, the quantity of the gas used for diluting CO+CO2 in the oven gas of the raw materials can be greatly reduced, and the energy consumption is remarkably lowered; meanwhile, the gas temperature at the outlet of the methanation reactor can be effectively controlled, thus being beneficial to methanation reaction and the selection of the materials of the reactor.

The invention discloses a coal gas high-temperature methanation catalyst and a preparation method thereof. The coal gas high-temperature methanation catalyst is prepared from a Ni or FeNi alloy as an active component, Al2O3 and ZrO2 as carriers, and one or more of metals of Mo, V, W, Ir, Cr, Mg, Ca, Y, Ce and La and/or oxides thereof, wherein the one or more of the metals and/or the oxides are utilized as auxiliary agent. The coal gas high-temperature methanation catalyst comprises: by weight, 1 to 50% of Ni or 1 to 55% of FeNi as an active component, 0.01 to 25% of one or more metals and/or oxides thereof as an auxiliary agent, and the balance Al2O3 and ZrO2 as carriers, wherein a weight ratio of Al2O3 to ZrO2 is in a range of 50 to 0.1. The coal gas high-temperature methanation catalyst has good high-temperature hydrothermal stability and high activity, and can reduce production cost and satisfy requirements of application of an adiabatic fixed bed high-temperature methanation process and other high-temperature methanation processes.

The invention discloses a bimetal methanation catalyst for the removal of micro carbon monoxide from a hydrogen-rich gas and a preparation method thereof. The bimetal methanation catalyst contains active components, namely nickel oxide and ferric oxide, loaded on an oxide carrier and an assistant, wherein the assistant is at least one element selected from the main group I, the main group II, the subgroup I, the subgroup III, the subgroup VI and the subgroup VIII of the periodic table, and the oxide carrier is alumina, titanium dioxide, zirconium dioxide and silicon dioxide or a mixture thereof. The catalyst of the invention can allow the micro carbon monoxide to be removed from the hydrogen-rich gas at a relatively low temperature and has the advantages of low load, high activity, relatively low cost and wide application prospect.

The invention relates to a high-temperature methanation catalyst, a preparation method and application thereof. The high temperature methanation catalyst comprises the following components: a) NiO serving as an active ingredient; b) a metallic oxide carrier comprising Al2O3 and ZrO2; and c) a metallic oxide auxiliary agent which is at least one of rare-earth metallic oxide RE2O3, and metallic oxide of magnesium Mg, copper Cu and chromium Cr. The method comprises the following steps of: A) preparing an aqueous solution of water soluble salt, wherein the water soluble salt comprises Ni, the metallic oxide carrier and optional metallic cation corresponding to the metallic oxide auxiliary agent, performing precipitation reaction with a precipitator to ensure that the metallic cation in the water soluble salt is precipitated; B) separating solid from liquid to obtain a precipitated solid; and C) performing dry granulating and calcining to ensure that the metallic cation is converted into the corresponding metallic oxide, wherein the calcining comprises high-temperature calcining. The catalyst still has higher activity and selectivity at higher temperature.

The invention discloses a biological disposing method of waste water through coupling the anaerobic ammonoxidation and methanation denitrification, which is characterized by the following: inoculating the particle sludge with methanation, denitrification and anaerobic ammonoxidation activity in the expansion grain sludge bed (EGSB); inoculating aerobic ammonoxidation bacteria in the biological aerating filter (BAF) or SHARON technique or SBR reactor; connecting the EGSB reactor and BAF or SHARON technique or SBR reactor; realizing the biological disposal of waste water through controlling pH value, temperature, dissolved oxygen, external reflow rate, load velocity, oxidizing reducing potential and organic COD density, ammonia nitrogen density.

The invention relates to the field of coal coking production, in particular to a method for realizing methanation of coke oven gas through carbon-replenishing hydrogen-returning process for synthetic natural gas. The method comprises: pressurizing purified coke oven gas to 1 MPa; raising temperature to 250 DEG C for heat exchange; under the action of catalysts, performing three-stage methanation reaction of CO2 recycled by a low-partial-pressure system added with flue gas and H2 obtained through the separation of a membrane separation device after methanation to obtain synthetic gas of which the concentration of methane is over 94 percent. The method adopts a low-pressure non-cyclic methanation process, and the reaction temperature of the method is as follows: a primary stage is at 600 DEG C; a carbon-replenishing hydrogen-returning stage is at about 500 DEG C; a final stage is at 360 DEG C; and the temperature before every stage of methanation reaction is controlled at 250 DEG C through balancing control. Through a heat-insulating reactor and a waste-heat boiler heat exchange system, the method not only controls reaction temperature, but also produces steam serving as a byproduct at 3.8 MPa and 450 DEG C. Compared with other synthesis methods, waste heat energy produced during the methanation reaction is utilized more fully, so that the aims of saving energy, reducing emission and causing no environmental pollution are achieved while capacity is expanded.

The invention discloses a method for preparing liquefied natural gas by converting raw materials of coke oven gas and blast furnace gas. In the technology, the coke oven gas and the blast furnace gas are taken as the raw materials, the raw materials are subjected to normal-temperature normal-pressure dry desulfurization, gas compression, gas adsorption purification, gas isothermal-adiabatic serial methanation, gas adsorption drying and demetalization, freezing liquefication separation and other technical processes, and high-quality liquefied natural gas with the purity of over 99 percent is produced. By the technology, harmful impurities such as sulfur, naphthalene, tar, benzene, mercury and the like in the gas can be efficiently and easily removed fully at low cost, and components with low value, such as H2, CO, CO2 and the like are completely converted into required CH4 component with high value, so the method has the characteristics of low requirement on quality of feed gas, high yield of liquefied natural gas product, high product purity, low production energy consumption, no environmental pollution, reliable flow, low investment, simple operation and good economic benefit.