Method for producing hydrogen from woody waste through staged pyrolysis and catalytic gasification

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12297394-B2
Application number	US-202418940189-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 7, 2024
Priority date	May 20, 2022
Publication date	May 13, 2025
Grant date	May 13, 2025

Abstract

Disclosed in the present disclosure is a method for producing hydrogen from woody waste through staged pyrolysis and catalytic gasification. The method includes: performing baking pretreatment on the woody waste; thermally activating aluminum smelting waste residues, and mixing the thermally activated aluminum smelting waste residues with the baked woody waste; pyrolyzing and gasifying the mixture for hydrogen production to obtain primary pyrolysis gas and a carbon-aluminum composite material; and further catalytically cracking the obtained primary pyrolysis gas by taking the obtained carbon-aluminum composite material as a catalyst. In the present disclosure, staged thermochemical conversion including low-temperature thermal treatment, medium-temperature catalytic gasification and tar steam reforming are performed on the woody waste, the cheap aluminum smelting waste residues are used as the catalyst, and tar steam is catalyzed by pyrolysis residues, such that a tar yield in a pyrolysis process is reduced, and a hydrogen yield is improved.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for producing hydrogen from woody waste through staged pyrolysis and catalytic gasification, comprising:
performing baking pretreatment on the woody waste at a baking temperature of 200-300° C. for baking time of 20-60 min;
thermally activating aluminum smelting waste residues, mixing the aluminum smelting waste residues with 5% organic acid by volume, placing a mixture in a high-pressure reaction kettle, adding deionized water for a reaction, performing cooling, then, performing dehydrating and calcining at a calcining temperature of 500-600° C. for calcining time of 1-2 h, and mixing the thermally activated aluminum smelting waste residues with the baked woody waste, wherein a mass volume ratio of the aluminum smelting waste residues to the organic acid is 1 g:1 mL, the organic acid comprises one or more of acetic acid and benzoic acid, the deionized water is added for the reaction, a mass ratio of the water to the aluminum smelting waste residues is 2-4:1, a temperature for the reaction is 200-300° C., and reaction time is 30-45 min;
pyrolyzing and gasifying the mixture for hydrogen production, and performing a pyrolysis reaction on the mixture at a temperature of 500-700° C. for 15-60 min to obtain primary pyrolysis gas and a carbon-aluminum composite material, wherein the pyrolysis reaction is performed under a CO 2 /H 2 O atmosphere, a total flow rate of the introduced CO 2 /H 2 O atmosphere is 0.1-0.2 L/min, and a volume ratio of CO 2 /H 2 O is 1-4:1; and
further catalytically cracking the obtained primary pyrolysis gas by taking the obtained carbon-aluminum composite material as a catalyst.

2. The method for producing hydrogen from woody waste through staged pyrolysis and catalytic gasification according to claim 1 , wherein the mixing the thermally activated aluminum smelting waste residues with the baked woody waste is performed according to a mass ratio of 1:1 at 200-300° C.

3. The method for producing hydrogen from woody waste through staged pyrolysis and catalytic gasification according to claim 1 , wherein the further catalytically cracking the obtained primary pyrolysis gas is performed at a temperature of 700-900° C.

Assignees

• Univ Changzhou

Inventors

• Liu Peng
• Lei Tingzhou
• Li Yanling
• Sun Tanglei
• Yang Yantao
• Ren Suxia
• Dong Lili
• Huhe Taoli

Classifications

• C10J2300/092

  Wood, cellulose · CPC title

• C01B3/34

  by reaction of hydrocarbons with gasifying agents · CPC title

• C10J2300/0969

  Carbon dioxide · CPC title

• C10J2300/0976

  as steam · CPC title

• C10J3/00

  Production of combustible gases containing carbon monoxide from solid carbonaceous fuels (destructive distillation processes C10B) · CPC title