Reforming system connected with a raw material gas vaporization system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11614280-B2
Application number	US-202016875329-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 15, 2020
Priority date	Nov 12, 2019
Publication date	Mar 28, 2023
Grant date	Mar 28, 2023

Abstract

A raw material gas vaporization system includes: a storage tank for storing raw material gas and a transfer line for transferring the raw material gas; a reforming system including a reformer for producing hydrogen by reacting the raw material gas with water, a burner for applying heat to the reformer, and Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) for separating the hydrogen in the mixed gas generated from the reformer; a CO2 separation device for receiving off-gas in which the hydrogen has been removed in the mixed gas from the PSA to remove by liquefying CO2 by exchanging heat with the transfer line of the raw material gas vaporization system; and a gas supply line for supplying the remaining gas in which the CO2 has been removed in the CO2 separation device to a burner as fuel.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system including a reforming system connected with a raw material gas vaporization system, the system comprising:
the raw material gas vaporization system comprising a storage tank for storing a raw material gas and a transfer line for transferring the raw material gas;
the reforming system comprising a reformer for producing hydrogen by reacting the raw material gas with water, a burner for applying heat to the reformer, and a Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) for separating the hydrogen in a mixed gas generated from the reformer;
a carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) separation device for removing CO 2 from received off-gas, from which the hydrogen has been removed in the mixed gas from the PSA by liquefying CO 2 by exchanging heat with the transfer line of the raw material gas vaporization system; and
a gas supply line for supplying a remaining gas, from which the CO 2 has been removed in the CO 2 separation device, to a burner as fuel,
wherein the CO 2 separation device comprises a raw material gas-off-gas heat exchanger connected to the transfer line and an off-gas supply line of the raw material gas vaporization system to cool the off-gas by using the cold heat of the raw material gas as refrigerant.

2. The system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the reforming system further comprises a Boil Off Gas (BOG) supply line to which BOG, generated by vaporizing the raw material gas stored in the storage tank, moves, and
wherein the reformer of the reforming system produces hydrogen by reacting the BOG received from the BOG supply line with water by using the BOG as the raw material gas.

3. The system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the raw material gas vaporization system further comprises a vaporization device for vaporizing the raw material gas heat-exchanged with the off-gas.

4. The system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the CO 2 separation device comprises an off-gas compressor for compressing the off-gas discharged from the PSA.

5. The system according to claim 4 ,
wherein the off-gas compressor compresses a pressure of the off-gas to 20 barg or more and 30 barg or less.

6. The system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the CO 2 separation device comprises a CO 2 separator for separating the CO 2 liquefied in the off-gas.

7. The system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the CO 2 separation device comprises a CO 2 tank for storing the liquefied CO 2 .

8. The system according to claim 1 ,
wherein, when the off-gas exchanges heat with the raw material gas system, the temperature of the off-gas is cooled to −40° C. or less and −50° C. or more.

9. The system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the system further comprises a water supply device for supplying water and a plurality of water heat exchangers for vaporizing by applying heat to the water and supplying the vaporized water to the reformer.

10. The system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the system further comprises a mixed gas heat exchanger for cooling by heat-exchanging the mixed gas having passed through the reformer with coolant.

11. The system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the system further comprises a transformer for producing hydrogen by reacting the CO generated in the reformer.

12. A system comprising:
a raw material gas vaporization system comprising a storage tank for storing a raw material gas and a transfer line for transferring the raw material gas;
a system connected with the raw material gas vaporization system and comprising a reformer for producing hydrogen by reacting the raw material gas with water, a burner for applying heat to the reformer, and a Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) for separating the hydrogen in a mixed gas generated from the reformer;
a carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) separation device for removing CO 2 from received off-gas, from which the hydrogen has been removed in the mixed gas from the PSA, by liquefying CO 2 by exchanging heat with the transfer line of the raw material gas vaporization system; and
a gas supply line for supplying a remaining gas, from which the CO 2 has been removed in the CO 2 separation device, to a burner as fuel,
wherein the raw material gas vaporization system further comprises a Boil Off Gas (BOG) compressor for compressing BOG of the storage tank so that the high-pressure BOG flows into the BOG supply line.

13. The system according to claim 12 ,
wherein the raw material gas vaporization system further comprises a first pump connected with the storage tank to compress and transmit the raw material gas and a suction drum for re-liquefying a portion of the BOG by flowing the portion of the BOG having passed through the BOG compressor into the BOG supply line and mixing the remainder with the raw material gas transmitted by the first pump.

14. The system according to claim 13 ,
wherein the first pump compresses the raw material gas to 1 barg or more and 10 barg or less.

15. The system according to claim 13 , further comprising a second pump connected with the suction drum to compress and transmit the raw material gas having passed through the suction drum to heat-exchange the high-pressure raw material gas with the off-gas.

16. The system according to claim 15 ,
wherein the second pump compresses the raw material gas to 10 barg or more and 100 barg or less.

17. A system comprising:
a raw material gas vaporization system comprising a storage tank for storing a raw material gas and a transfer line for transferring the raw material gas;
a system connected with the raw material gas vaporization system and comprising a reformer for producing hydrogen by reacting the raw material gas with water, a burner for applying heat to the reformer, and a Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) for separating the hydrogen in a mixed gas generated from the reformer;
a CO 2 separation device for removing CO 2 from received off-gas which the hydrogen has been removed in the mixed gas from the PSA by liquefying carbon dioxide (CO2) by exchanging heat with the transfer line of the raw material gas vaporization system; and
a gas supply line for supplying a remaining gas, from which the CO 2 has been removed in the CO 2 separation device, to a burner as fuel,
wherein the system further comprises a Boil Off Gas (BOG) supply line to which BOG, generated by vaporizing the raw material gas stored in the storage tank, moves, and
wherein the reformer of the system produces hydrogen by reacting the BOG received from the BOG supply line with water by using the BOG as the raw material gas.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Motors Corp

Inventors

• Ko Dong Seok

Classifications

• F25J3/062

  Refinery gas, cracking gas, coke oven gas, gaseous mixtures containing aliphatic unsaturated CnHm or gaseous mixtures of undefined nature · CPC title

• C01B3/14

  Handling of heat and steam · CPC title

• F25J2215/04

  Recovery of liquid products · CPC title

• C01B2203/0866

  by combination of different heating methods · CPC title

• C01B2203/0838

  by heat exchange with exothermic reactions, other than by combustion of fuel · CPC title