The invention belongs to the technical field of
petroleum refining, and relates to a high-purity
hydrogen recovery process for improving
denitrification efficiency based on a PSA (
Pressure Swing Adsorption) device, which comprises the following steps: carrying out primary adsorption
impurity removal after pretreatment and pressure regulation on
raw material gas, carrying out gas-liquid separation, pretreatment and pressure regulation on the obtained
hydrogen-rich gas, and then carrying out membrane separation; the generated
hydrogen-rich permeated gas is subjected to pressure regulation and then is sequentially input into a second-stage PSA device and a third-stage PSA device for further adsorption and purification, and finally finished hydrogen with the purity not lower than 99.9% is obtained. The membrane
separation technology is adopted for selective separation of hydrogen and
nitrogen, the membrane separation unit is arranged at the outlet of the first-stage PSA device,
nitrogen is removed from the source, meanwhile, desorbed gas of the third-stage PSA device and retention gas of the membrane separation unit are combined for
combustion,
nitrogen accumulation in the
system is avoided, the nitrogen circulation amount in the
system is reduced, and the
energy consumption of the
system is reduced. The hydrogen
recovery rate can be effectively improved while the adsorption efficiency is improved, the process is simple, the
investment cost is low, the implementation period is short, and remarkable
economic benefits and process advantages are achieved.