Gas hydrate-based particulate/waste gas simultaneous removal system and method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11819794-B2
Application number	US-202017056296-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 28, 2020
Priority date	Dec 20, 2019
Publication date	Nov 21, 2023
Grant date	Nov 21, 2023

Abstract

The present invention discloses a gas hydrate-based particulate/waste gas simultaneous removal system and method. R134a can be used to synthesize particulates/coking waste gases into gas hydrate, which can realize the simultaneous removal of particulates/coking waste gases with no pollution and low energy consumption. The system comprises a waste heat recovery device, a gas hydrate primary dust removal tower, a solid-liquid separation primary tower, a gas hydrate secondary dust removal tower, a solid-liquid separation secondary tower, a gas hydrate decomposition pool, a gas-solid separation tower and a low temperature fractionation device. The present invention can achieve the removal of harmful substances such as heavy metals and coking waste gases while removing particulates. Compared with the current particulate control and waste gas treatment device, the gas hydrate method-based device is greatly simplified and can effectively remove multiple pollutants and realize energy saving and environmental protection.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A gas hydrate-based particulate/waste gas simultaneous removal system, wherein the system comprises a waste heat recovery device, a gas hydrate primary dust removal tower, a solid-liquid separation primary tower, a gas hydrate secondary dust removal tower, a solid-liquid separation secondary tower, a gas hydrate decomposition pool, a gas-solid separation tower and a low temperature fractionation device;
the waste heat recovery device is used to absorb high temperature coal particles and coking dust carrying raw gas generated in a production process, and to conduct cooling treatment to lower the temperature to room temperature so as to obtain ambient temperature coal particles and coking dust containing raw gas;
the gas hydrate primary dust removal tower is used for gas hydrate generation and particulate coagulation; the ambient temperature coal particles and coking dust carrying raw gas are passed into a pool for humidification, and at the same time, R134a gas is introduced at 1-2 atm and 2-13° C., the waste gases that can produce gas hydrate in the raw gas will preferentially generate gas hydrate on the surface of coal particles and coking dust so as to form clathrates with a larger size, and the particulates are sedimented by increasing the overall size; and part of the soluble heavy metal ions and inorganic salt ions adsorbed on the surface of coal particles and coking dust are dissolved in water;
the solid-liquid separation primary tower is used to separate the solid-liquid mixture in the gas hydrate primary dust removal tower, and the heavy metal and salt ion enriched liquid containing macromolecular gas hydrate slurry obtained from the gas hydrate primary dust removal tower is subjected to solid-liquid separation by the solid-liquid separation primary tower; and the heavy metal and salt ion enriched liquid obtained by separation enters the gas hydrate secondary dust removal tower for humidification, and the solid gas hydrate obtained by separation enters the gas hydrate decomposition pool;
the gas hydrate secondary dust removal tower is used for secondary removal of the gas hydrate generated by the gas and the water-containing coal particle and coking dust particulates that do not completely generate gas hydrate in the gas hydrate primary dust removal tower and the R134a gas at 1-2 atm and 2-13° C. to further remove coking waste gases and particulates, and to convey the formed heavy metal and salt ion highly enriched liquid containing gas hydrate slurry to the solid-liquid separation secondary tower;
the solid-liquid separation secondary tower is used to separate the solid-liquid mixture containing gas hydrate slurry obtained from the gas hydrate secondary dust removal tower, the solid gas hydrate obtained by separation enters the gas hydrate decomposition pool, and the heavy metal and salt ion highly enriched liquid obtained by separation is collected; and the coal particle and coking dust particulates carrying waste gases generated at this time are conveyed to the gas hydrate decomposition pool in the form of macromolecular gas hydrate slurry;
the gas hydrate decomposition pool is used to decompose gas hydrate; and the gas hydrate solids obtained by separation from the first solid-liquid separation tower and the second solid-liquid separation tower are decomposed by the gas hydrate decomposition pool, and the gases and particulates obtained by decomposition are conveyed to the gas-solid separation tower;
the gas-solid separation tower is used for gas-solid separation of the waste gases obtained from the gas hydrate decomposition pool and the R134a gas and particulates, the gases are separated from the particulates in combination with membrane separation, and the obtained water-containing coal particle and coking dust particulates are collected for centralized treatment; and the obtained waste gases and the R134a gas are conveyed to the low temperature fractionation device for separation and recovery;
the low temperature fractionation device is used to separate the waste gases obtained from the gas-solid separation tower from the R134a; when the temperature drops to below the boiling point of R134a, R134a is liquefied, and the other gases are still kept in the gas phase state; the waste gases are subjected to centralized collection to be directly recovered and used as chemical materials so as to prevent exhaust into the atmosphere to pollute the environment; and the separated R134a is recovered and refiled into the gas hydrate primary dust removal tower for reuse to realize the resourceful treatment of materials.

2. A method for a gas hydrate-based particulate/waste gas simultaneous removal system using the system according to claim 1 , wherein the method comprises the following steps:
step 1: conveying high temperature coal particles and coking dust carrying raw gas generated in the production process to the waste heat recovery system, and conducting cooling treatment to lower the temperature to room temperature so as to obtain ambient temperature coal particles and coking dust containing raw gas;
step 2: conveying the ambient temperature coal particles and coking dust containing raw gas to the gas hydrate primary dust removal tower, humidifying the ambient temperature coal particles and coking dust containing raw gas in the pool in the tower, introducing the R134a gas, and generating mixed gas hydrate on the surface of the particulates with the water-containing coal particle and coking dust particulates as attachment points, the water on the particulates as host molecules, and the waste gases and the R134a gas that can generate gas hydrate as guest molecules at 1-2 atm and 2-13° C.;
step 3: conveying the macromolecular gas hydrate particulates obtained from the gas hydrate primary dust removal tower, and the enriched liquid containing heavy metals and salt ions to the first solid-liquid separation tower for solid-liquid separation, conveying the obtained gas hydrate particulates to the gas hydrate decomposition pool, and conveying the obtained enriched liquid containing heavy metals and salt ions to the gas hydrate secondary dust removal tower;
step 4: in the gas hydrate secondary dust removal tower, carrying out secondary gas hydrate synthesis on the enriched liquid containing heavy metals and salt ions, and mainly further mixing the water-containing coal particle and coking dust particulates that are not completely synthesized into gas hydrate in the gas hydrate primary dust removal tower to generate gas hydrate so as to further remove the particulates and waste gases;
step 5: separating the heavy metal and salt ion enriched liquid and the gas hydrate particulates obtained from the gas hydrate secondary dust removal tower in the solid-liquid separation secondary tower, conveying the obtained gas hydrate particulate solids to the gas hydrate decomposition pool, and collecting the obtained heavy metal and salt ion highly enriched liquid;
step 6: decomposing the gas hydrate solids obtained from the solid-liquid separation primary tower and the solid-liquid separation secondary tower by the gas hydrate decomposition pool to obtain waste gases and R134a gas as well as water-containing coal particle and coking dust particulates providing attachment points for the formation of gas hydrate, and conveying the gases and particulates obtained by decomposition to the gas-solid separation tower;
step 7: carrying out gas-solid separation on the waste gases and R134a gas and the water-containing coal particle and coking dust particulates providing attachment points for the formation of gas hydrate in the gas-solid separation tower, and collecting the obtained water-containing coal particle and coking dust particulates to prevent environmental pollution; and conveying the obtained waste gases and R134a gas to the low temperature fractionation device;
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Assignees

• Univ Dalian Tech

Inventors

• Song Yongchen
• Li Man
• Zhao Jiafei
• Yang Lei
• Sun Zhongwang
• Zhang Lunxiang
• Liu Weiguo
• Li Yanghui
• Liu Yu
• Yang Mingjun
• Zhang Yi
• Wang Dayong
• Ling Zheng
• Jiang Lanlan
• Chen Cong
• Zhao Yuechao

Classifications

• B01D47/02 Primary

  by passing the gas or air or vapour over or through a liquid bath · CPC title

• B01D53/005

  by heat treatment · CPC title

• B01D53/62

  Carbon oxides · CPC title

• B01D53/75

  Multi-step processes · CPC title

• B01D53/78

  with gas-liquid contact · CPC title