Integrated coal gasification combined power generation process with zero carbon emission

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10899982-B2
Application number	US-201916555164-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 29, 2019
Priority date	Nov 2, 2018
Publication date	Jan 26, 2021
Grant date	Jan 26, 2021

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of coal chemical industry, and particularly discloses an integrated coal gasification combined power generation process with zero carbon emission, the process comprising: pressurizing air for performing air separation to obtain liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen, wherein the liquid oxygen is used for gasification and power generation, the liquid nitrogen is applied as the coolant for the gasification and power generation, the liquid nitrogen and a part of liquid oxygen stored during the valley period with low electricity load are provided for use during the peak period with high electricity load; the pulverized coal delivered under pressure and high-pressure oxygen enter a coal gasification furnace for gasification, so as to generate high-temperature fuel gas, which subjects to heat exchange and purification, and then the high-pressure fuel gas enters into a combustion gas turbine along with oxygen and recyclable CO2 for burning and driving an air compressor and a generator to rotate at a high speed; the air compressor compresses the air to a pressure of 0.4˜0.8 MPa, and the generator generates electricity; the high-temperature combustion flue gas performs the supercritical CO2 power generation, its coolant is liquid oxygen or liquid nitrogen; the heat exchanged combustion fuel gas subsequently perform heat exchange with liquid nitrogen, the liquid nitrogen vaporizes to drive a nitrogen turbine generator for generating electricity, the cooled flue gas is dehydrated and distilled to separate CO2, a part of CO2 is used for circulation and temperature control, and another portion of CO2 is sold outward as liquid CO2 product. The power generation process provided by the present disclosure not only solves the difficult problems of high water consumption, low power generation efficiency and small range of peak load adjustment capacity of the existing IGCC technology; but also can compress air with high unit volume for energy storage with a high conversion efficiency, and greatly reduce load of the air compressor, thereby perform CO2 capture and utilization with low-cost, zero NOx emission and discharging fuel gas at a normal temperature, and significantly improve the power generation efficiency.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An integrated coal gasification combined power generation process with zero carbon emission, the process comprising:
1) introducing pressurized air with a pressure 0.4 to 0.8 MPa into an air separation facility for performing air separation to obtain liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen;
2) performing heat exchange at a first cooler between at least a part of the liquid oxygen and high-temperature CO 2 from an outlet of a first supercritical CO 2 generator, so as to generate high-pressure vaporized oxygen and recyclable CO 2 ;
3) subjecting at least a part of the high-pressure vaporized oxygen and pulverized coal to a gasification reaction in a coal gasification furnace to obtain a high-temperature and high pressure fuel gas, carrying out heat exchange of the high-temperature and high-pressure fuel gas in a first CO 2 waste heat boiler to perform a first supercritical CO 2 power generation;
4) purifying high-pressure fuel gas obtained by the heat exchange in step 3) to obtain high-pressure purified fuel gas;
5) pumping the high-pressure vaporized oxygen remaining after step 3) and the high-pressure purified fuel gas jointly into a combustion gas turbine for burning and swelling to drive an air compressor and a generator to generate electricity and to obtain a high-temperature combustion flue gas;
6) subjecting the high-temperature combustion flue gas obtained in step 5) to heat exchange in a second CO 2 waste heat boiler to perform a second supercritical CO 2 power generation, and coolant of the second supercritical CO 2 power generation is at least part of the liquid oxygen and/or at least part of the liquid nitrogen;
7) performing heat exchange of heat exchanged combustion flue gas obtained in step 6) with at least part of the liquid nitrogen through a vaporizer to obtain a staged cooled flue gas, wherein the vaporization of liquid nitrogen drives a nitrogen turbine generator to generate electricity.

2. The integrated coal gasification combined power generation process with zero carbon emission according to claim 1 , wherein the power generation process further comprises: dehydrating the staged cooled flue gas obtained in step 7), and sending the dehydrated flue gas to a flue gas distillation tower to separate and recover CO 2 .

3. The integrated coal gasification 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 5) and enters the combustion gas turbine in conjunction with the high-pressure vaporized oxygen and the high-pressure purified fuel gas.

4. The integrated coal gasification combined power generation process with zero carbon emission according to claim 3 , wherein the mass ratio of the high-pressure vaporized oxygen from an inlet of the combustion gas turbine relative to the recyclable CO 2 is 1:2 to 1:12.

5. The integrated coal gasification combined power generation process with zero carbon emission according to claim 4 , wherein the mass ratio of the high-pressure vaporized oxygen from an inlet of the combustion gas turbine relative to the recyclable CO 2 is 1:5 to 1:8.

6. The integrated coal gasification combined power generation process with zero carbon emission according to claim 2 , wherein at least a part of recovered CO 2 is used for replenishing working medium in the first supercritical CO 2 power generation in step 3) and/or the second supercritical CO 2 power generation in step 6).

7. The integrated coal gasification 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 integrated coal gasification combined power generation process with zero carbon emission according to claim 1 , wherein the first supercritical CO 2 power generation and the second supercritical CO 2 power generation are 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, respectively.

9. The integrated coal gasification combined power generation process with zero carbon emission according to claim 1 , wherein the first supercritical CO 2 power generation according to step 3) comprises: pressurizing supercritical CO 2 with a first CO 2 compressor, and then performing heat exchange with the high-temperature and high-pressure fuel gas in step 3) in a first CO 2 waste heat boiler to form a heat exchanged working medium; the heat exchanged working medium enters the first supercritical CO 2 generator for performing the first supercritical CO 2 power generation; high-temperature CO 2 from an outlet of the first supercritical CO 2 generator subjects to a heat exchange in the first cooler with a part of the liquid oxygen, the recyclable CO 2 is delivered to the first CO 2 compressor; the supercritical CO 2 pressure is within a range of 7 to 40 MPa.

10. The integrated coal gasification combined power generation process with zero carbon emission according to claim 1 , wherein the second supercritical CO 2 power generation in step 6) comprises: pressurizing the supercritical CO 2 by a second CO 2 compressor, and then performing heat exchange in the second CO 2 compressor with the high-temperature combustion flue gas obtained in step 5) to form a heat exchanged working medium; pumping the heat exchanged working medium into a second supercritical CO 2 generator to carry out the second supercritical CO 2 power generation; subjecting the high-temperature CO 2 from an outlet of the second supercritical CO 2 generator to a heat exchange in a second cooler with at least part of the liquid nitrogen to form recyclable CO 2 , the recyclable CO 2 is delivered to the second CO 2 compressor; the supercritical CO 2 pressure is within a range of 7 to 40 MPa.

11. The integrated coal gasification combined power generation process with zero carbon emission according to claim 1 , wherein the coal gasification furnace of step 3) is an entrained flow bed gasification furnace, a circulating fluidized bed gasification furnace or a staged pyrolysis gasification composite furnace.

12. The integrated coal gasification combined power generation process with zero carbon emission according to claim 1 , wherein the pressure of the gasification reaction in step 3) is within a range of 1 to 10 MPa.

13. The integrated coal gasification combined power generation process with zero carbon emission according to claim 1 , wherein the purification in step 4) comprises: subjecting the high-pressure fuel gas to dust removal, desulfurization, dechlorination and removal of heavy metals so as to prepare the high-pressure purified fuel gas.

14. The integrated coal gasification combined power generation process with zero carbon emission according to claim 1 , wherein the air inhaled from the outside is compressed to a pressure of 0.4 to 0.8 MPa by the air compressor in step 5) to obtain the pressurized air with a pressure 0.4 to 0.8 MPa as described in step 1).

Assignees

• Univ China Petroleum East China

Inventors

• Tian Yuanyu
• Qiao Yingyun
• Xie Kechang
• Sun Lanyi
• Xu Fanfan
• Ming Xue
• Zhang Yanpeng

Classifications

• C10J2300/1678

  with air separation · CPC title

• C10J2300/1884

  with one stream being synthesis gas · CPC title

• C10K1/007

  of metal compounds · CPC title

• C10J2300/1861

  Heat exchange between at least two process streams · CPC title

• F01K13/006 Primary

  Auxiliaries or details not otherwise provided for · CPC title