Natural gas combined power generation process with zero carbon emission

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10830107-B2
Application number	US-201916555152-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 29, 2019
Priority date	Nov 2, 2018
Publication date	Nov 10, 2020
Grant date	Nov 10, 2020

Abstract

A natural gas power generation process with zero carbon emission is described. The process includes pressurizing air and introducing the pressurized air into an air separation facility to obtain liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen. The liquid oxygen is used for gasification and power generation The liquid nitrogen is applied as a coolant of flue gas, and then for gasification and power generation.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A natural gas combined power generation process with zero carbon emission, the process comprising:
1) pressurizing air with an air compressor to a pressure of 0.4˜0.8 MPa, and then introducing the pressurized air into an air separation facility for performing air separation to obtain liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen;
2) performing heat exchange at a cooler between the liquid oxygen and a high-temperature CO 2 at an outlet of a supercritical CO 2 generator, so as to generate high-pressure vaporized oxygen and recyclable CO 2 ;
3) combusting the high-pressure vaporized oxygen and natural gas, and obtained high-temperature combustion flue gas drives the air compressor and a generator to generate electricity;
4) subjecting the high-temperature combustion flue gas obtained in step 3) to a heat exchange in a CO 2 waste heat boiler to perform a supercritical CO 2 power generation;
5) performing heat exchange of the heat exchanged combustion flue gas obtained in step 4) with liquid nitrogen through a vaporizer to obtain a stepwise cooled flue gas, and the vaporization of liquid nitrogen drives a nitrogen turbine generator to generate electricity.

2. The natural gas combined power generation process with zero carbon emission according to claim 1 , wherein the stepwise cooled flue gas obtained in step 5) is dehydrated, and the dehydrated flue gas is pumped to a flue gas distillation tower to separate and recover CO 2 .

3. The natural gas combined power generation process with zero carbon emission according to claim 2 , wherein at least a part of the recovered CO 2 is recycled to the step 3) for combustion along with the high-pressure vaporized oxygen and natural gas.

4. The natural gas combined power generation process with zero carbon emission according to claim 3 , wherein a mass ratio of the high-pressure vaporized oxygen relative to the recovered CO 2 recycled to step 3) is 1:(2˜12).

5. The natural gas combined power generation process with zero carbon emission according to claim 4 , wherein the mass ratio of the high-pressure vaporized oxygen relative to the recovered CO 2 recycled to step 3) is 1:(5˜8).

6. The natural gas combined power generation process with zero carbon emission according to claim 2 , wherein at least a part of the recovered CO 2 is used in replenishment of working medium for supercritical CO 2 power generation.

7. The natural gas combined power generation process with zero carbon emission according to claim 1 , wherein the air separation is a cryogenic air separation, a cascade air separation combined with pressure swing adsorption separation and cryogenic separation or a cascade air separation combined with membrane separation and cryogenic separation.

8. The natural gas combined power generation process with zero carbon emission according to claim 1 , wherein the supercritical CO 2 power generation is one of a supercritical CO 2 power generation mode of a recompression cycle, a segment expansion cycle, a preload cycle, and a partial cooling cycle.

9. The natural gas combined power generation process with zero carbon emission according to claim 1 , wherein the supercritical CO 2 power generation comprises:
supercritical CO 2 is pressurized by a CO 2 compressor, and then performs heat exchange in a CO 2 waste heat boiler with the high-temperature combustion flue gas obtained in step 3); the heat exchanged working medium enters the supercritical CO 2 generator for performing the supercritical CO 2 power generation; the high-temperature CO 2 at an outlet of the supercritical CO 2 generator performs heat exchange in the cooler with the liquid oxygen, and the obtained recyclable CO 2 is delivered to the CO 2 compressor.

10. The natural gas combined power generation process with zero carbon emission according to claim 9 , wherein the supercritical CO 2 pressure is within a range of 7˜40 MPa.

11. The natural gas combined power generation process with zero carbon emission according to claim 9 , wherein the supercritical CO 2 pressure is within a range of 12˜25 MPa.

Assignees

• Univ China Petroleum East China

Inventors

• Qiao Yingyun
• Tian Yuanyu
• Xie Kechang
• Sun Lanyi
• Liu Rui
• Hu Lichao
• Yang Ze

Classifications

• F25J2260/80

  Integration in an installation using carbon dioxide, e.g. for EOR, sequestration, refrigeration etc. · CPC title

• F25J2260/44

  using nitrogen for cooling purposes · CPC title

• F25J2250/50

  One fluid being oxygen · CPC title

• F25J2250/42

  One fluid being nitrogen · CPC title

• F25J2240/82

  with waste heat recovery, e.g. in a combined cycle, i.e. for generating steam used in a Rankine cycle · CPC title