Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Volume 41, Issue 25, Pages 10646-10660Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2016.04.089
Keywords
IGCC; Adsorption; Flexibility; CO2 capture; H-2 production; Process simulation
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- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
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The coproduction of power and ultrapure H-2 within an Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) plant implementing CO2 capture offers advantages in terms of flexible operation while retaining good efficiency. The common design includes an absorption unit for removing CO2 from a high pressure syngas followed by a Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) unit for purifying a part of the resulting H-2-rich gas stream. A drawback of this design consists in the necessity for compression of the PSA tail gas in order to recover the energy available in the residual H-2 content. This paper presents two novel configurations for power and H-2 coproduction with CO2 capture, entirely based on PSA technology. The first relies on two PSA trains in series (Two-train PSA), while the other is able to carry out CO2 separation and H-2 purification within a single PSA train (One-train PSA). The two systems were defined and simulated through a composite model of the whole plant. The process simulation results showed that both the configurations proposed are able to shift between the two energy products without compromising the performance of the plant. The load of the plant could be decreased by increasing the ultrapure H-2 throughput, while maintaining a constant feed of coal to the gasifier. The Two-train PSA configuration achieved higher performance in terms of energy efficiency and H-2 purity. The One-train PSA configuration returned slightly lower but still good performance, while its design includes a single separation stage instead of two. Additionally, both configurations enable the avoidance of PSA tail gas compression giving an advantage against the absorption-based design. A comparative analysis with results taken from the literature seems to confirm this assertion. (C) 2016 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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