Control system for decreasing pressure of supercritical water system and method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10519043-B2
Application number	US-201715611752-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 1, 2017
Priority date	Jun 1, 2017
Publication date	Dec 31, 2019
Grant date	Dec 31, 2019

Abstract

A control system for decreasing pressure of a supercritical water system and a method therefor is provided, mainly including: a resistance water storage tank, a resistance pump, a capillary negative booster, a back pressure valve, a regulating valve and related stop valves. By switching the back pressure valve branch and the capillary negative booster branch, the pressure regulation is achieved while starting the system, closing down and in normal operation. The present invention is capable of achieving precisely controlling pressure of the system on the basis of effectively preventing problems exists in the solid particle materials pressure decreasing process such as abrasion and clogging of the internal elements of the valve. In addition, the back pressure valve branch is capable of reducing the operation complexity in the starting and shutdown process of the system, and the operation reliability is improved.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control system for decreasing pressure of a supercritical water system, comprising: a capillary branch, a water resistance branch and a back pressure valve branch, wherein the back pressure valve is connected in parallel with the capillary branch; wherein a fluid outlet of a supercritical water reactor ( 1 ) is connected with the capillary branch, an outlet of the capillary branch is a fluid outlet; an outlet of the water resistance branch is connected with a pipe in front of an inlet of the capillary branch;
wherein the water resistance branch comprises a resistance water storage tank ( 3 ), an outlet of the resistance water storage tank ( 3 ) is connected with a resistance pump ( 4 ) and a first stop valve ( 5 ) in sequence; wherein an outlet of the first stop valve ( 5 ) is connected with the inlet of the capillary branch;
wherein the capillary branch comprises: a second stop valve ( 6 ), a capillary negative booster ( 9 ) and a regulating valve ( 10 ), wherein the second stop valve ( 6 ), the capillary negative booster ( 9 ) and the regulating valve ( 10 ) are connected in series; an inlet of the second stop valve ( 6 ) is connected with the fluid outlet of the supercritical water reactor ( 1 ); and an outlet of the regulating valve ( 10 ) is a fluid outlet.

2. The control system for decreasing pressure of the supercritical water system, as recited in claim 1 , wherein the back pressure valve branch comprises: a third stop valve ( 7 ) and a back pressure valve ( 8 ); an inlet of the third stop valve ( 7 ) is connected with a tube in front of the inlet of the second stop valve ( 6 ).

3. The control system for decreasing pressure of the supercritical water system, as recited in claim 1 , wherein a pressure gauge ( 2 ) for monitoring fluid pressure of the outlet of the supercritical water reactor is provided on the outlet of the supercritical water reactor ( 2 ).

4. The control system for decreasing pressure of the supercritical water system, as recited in claim 2 , wherein a pressure gauge ( 2 ) for monitoring fluid pressure of the outlet of the supercritical water reactor is provided on the outlet of the supercritical water reactor ( 2 ).

5. A method for decreasing pressure of a supercritical water system adopting the control system as recited in claim 2 , comprising steps of:
1) an initial state: turning off the first stop valve ( 5 ), the second stop valve ( 6 ) and the third stop valve ( 7 ); stopping the resistance pump ( 4 ); and turning on the back pressure valve ( 8 ) and the regulating valve ( 10 );
2) starting the system comprising when the control system needs to boost, turning on the third stop valve ( 7 ) on the back pressure valve; regulating opening degree of the back pressure valve ( 8 ), regulating the opening degree from large to small, so that a rear pressure of the reactor gradually increases to a pressure I, operating steadily for 30 min; switching the back valve branch and the capillary branch; switching on the second stop valve ( 6 ), switching off the third stop valve ( 7 ), switching on the first stop valve ( 5 ) and switching on the resistance pump ( 4 ); gradually increasing output flow of the resistance pump ( 4 ) since 30% of the charge is outputted by the resistance pump ( 4 ), so as to make the, so as to gradually increase back pressure of the reactor until value of the back pressure is II, so as to achieve increasing pressure of the system;
3) normal operation
a: if the back pressure of the reactor decreases, regulating the resistance pump ( 4 ), increasing flow of resistance water until the back pressure of the reactor returns to normal; if the back pressure of the reactor decreases sharply, regulating the resistance pump ( 4 ) to increase flow of resistance water; if full load operation of the resistance water pump ( 4 ) is not capable of making the back pressure of the reactor increase to an expected value, decreasing open degree of the regulating valve ( 10 ), so as to restore pressure of the system to normal;
b: if the back pressure of the reactor increases, regulating the resistance pump ( 4 ), decreasing flow of resistance water until the back pressure of the reactor returns to normal; if the back pressure of the reactor increases sharply, regulating the resistance pump ( 4 ) to decrease flow of resistance water; if load of the resistance water pump ( 4 ) decreases to 30%, which is still not capable of making the back pressure of the reactor increase to an expected value, turning of the resistance water pump ( 4 ), at the moment if the back pressure of the reactor is smaller than a normal value, decreasing open degree of the regulating valve ( 10 ), so as to restore pressure of the system to normal;
4) shutting down the system: when temperature of the system is reduced and pressure needs decreasing, fully opening the regulating valve ( 10 ), gradually decreasing water flow of the resistance water pump ( 4 ), when the load is reduced to 30%, releasing interlock among the back pressure of the reactor, the regulating valve ( 10 ) and the resistance water pump ( 4 ), turning off the resistance water pump ( 4 ), turning off the first stop valve ( 5 ); switching from a capillary pressure decreasing branch to a back pressure valve branch, turning on the third stop valve ( 7 ), turning off the second stop valve ( 6 ), establishing interlock between pressure if the outlet of the reactor and the back pressure valve ( 8 ), gradually decreasing opening degree of the back pressure valve, in such a manner that the back pressure of the reactor gradually decreases to normal pressure.

Assignees

• Univ Xi An Jiaotong
• Xian Wonfu Energy And Environment Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wang Shuzhong
• Zhang Jie
• Wang Laisheng
• Tang Xingying
• Li Yanhui
• Yang Jianqiao

Classifications

• C02F2201/005

  Valves · CPC title

• C02F2209/03

  Pressure · CPC title

• C02F1/008 Primary

  Control or steering systems not provided for elsewhere in subclass C02F · CPC title