Integrated coal gasification combined power generation process with zero carbon emission

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2020140770-A1
Application number	US-201916555164-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 29, 2019
Priority date	Nov 2, 2018
Publication date	May 7, 2020
Grant date	—

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 CO 2 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 CO 2 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 CO 2 , a part of CO 2 is used for circulation and temperature control, and another portion of CO 2 is sold outward as liquid CO 2 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 CO 2 capture and utilization with low-cost, zero NO x emission and discharging fuel gas at a normal temperature, and significantly improve the power generation efficiency.

First claim

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˜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 the 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, carrying out heat exchange of the obtained high-temperature and high-pressure fuel gas in a first CO 2 waste heat boiler to perform the first supercritical CO 2 power generation; 4) purifying the high-pressure fuel gas obtained by the heat exchange in step 3) to obtain the high-pressure purified fuel gas; 5) pumping the remaining part of the high-pressure vaporized oxygen 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; 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 the 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 the heat exchanged combustion flue gas obtained in step 6) with at least part of the liquid nitrogen through a vaporizer, 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˜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˜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 the 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; the heat exchanged working medium enters the first supercritical CO 2 generator for performing the first supercritical CO 2 power generation; the 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 obtained recyclable CO 2 is delivered to the first CO 2 compressor;
the supercritical CO 2 pressure is within a range of 7˜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 a second CO 2 compressor with the high-temperature combustion flue gas obtained in step 5); 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 the second supercritical CO 2 generator outlet to a heat exchange in a second cooler with at least part of the liquid nitrogen, the obtained recyclable CO 2 is delivered to the second CO 2 compressor;
the supercritical CO 2 pressure is within a range of 7˜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˜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 the 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˜0.8 MPa by the air compressor in step 5) to obtain the pressurized air with a pressure 0.4˜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

• C10J2300/1612

  CO2-separation and sequestration, i.e. long time storage · CPC title

• F02C6/00

  Plural gas-turbine plants; Combinations of gas-turbine plants with other apparatus; Adaptations of gas-turbine plants for special use · CPC title

• C10J3/62 Primary

  with separate withdrawal of the distillation products · CPC title

• C10J2300/165

  integrated with a gas turbine or gas motor · CPC title

• F01K25/08

  using special vapours · CPC title