The invention discloses an
ammonia catalytic
cracking device adopting a
plasma ignition technology and an operation method, and belongs to the field of
hydrogen production through
ammonia decomposition, and the
ammonia catalytic
cracking device mainly comprises a
plasma ammonia burner, a high-temperature mixer, a catalytic ammonia
cracking module, a heat exchange module and a
hydrogen separation and purification module. The
plasma ammonia burner performs plasma
discharge ignition at the starting stage, assists ammonia
combustion to generate high-temperature
tail gas, the high-temperature
tail gas is mixed with
liquid ammonia spray to form high-temperature
mixed gas, the high-temperature
mixed gas is introduced into the catalytic ammonia cracking module, and
hydrogen-rich cracking gas is generated under the action of a catalyst; plasma
discharge is not needed in the working stage, and hydrogen-rich
pyrolysis gas is introduced into the
combustor to be directly combusted. The
pyrolysis gas heats
liquid ammonia in the heat exchange module to improve the energy utilization efficiency of the
system, and the cooled
pyrolysis gas enters the separation module to purify hydrogen. According to the ammonia cracking device, high-temperature
tail gas generated by ammonia-rich
combustion of the
combustor is directly mixed to preheat
ammonia gas, a two-phase
heat exchanger does not need to be independently arranged, the device is compact, the energy
utilization rate is high, and no harmful
combustion tail gas is discharged.