Separation and Recovery System and Method of Hydrogen from Coke Oven Gas (COG) in Steel Industry

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2022168688-A1
Application number	US-202117495701-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 6, 2021
Priority date	Dec 2, 2020
Publication date	Jun 2, 2022
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present invention relates to a separation and recovery system and method of hydrogen from a coke oven gas (COG) in a steel industry, and more particularly, to a separation and recovery system and method of hydrogen from a coke oven gas (COG) in a steel industry, the system including a pre-processing unit removing impurities including tar, moisture, oil, hydrogen sulfide, and dusts from the coke oven gas (COG), a membrane separation unit including a polymer separation membrane module to generate a hydrogen concentrated gas stream by membrane-separating the coke oven gas (COG) processed in the pre-processing unit, and an adsorption unit separate and recover the hydrogen by allowing the hydrogen concentrated gas stream to contact an absorbent.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A separation and recovery system of hydrogen from a coke oven gas (COG) in a steel industry, comprising:
a pre-processing unit configured to remove impurities comprising tar, moisture, oil, hydrogen sulfide, and dusts from the coke oven gas (COG); a membrane separation unit comprising a polymer separation membrane module to generate a hydrogen concentrated gas stream by membrane-separating the coke oven gas (COG) processed in the pre-processing unit; and an adsorption unit configured to separate and recover the hydrogen by allowing the hydrogen concentrated gas stream to contact an absorbent.

2 . The separation and recovery system of claim 1 , wherein the membrane separation unit comprises a plurality of separation membrane packages each comprising at least one polymer separation membrane module,
wherein at least two separation membrane packages of the plurality of separation membrane packages are connected in serial.

3 . The separation and recovery system of claim 2 , wherein the membrane separation unit has a circulation structure of re-supplying a gas stream discharged from a remaining side outlet of the separation membrane package disposed on a rear end of the separation membrane packages to a remaining side inlet of the separation membrane package disposed on a front most end of the separation membrane packages.

4 . The separation and recovery system of claim 2 , wherein the separation membrane package further comprises a compressor disposed on a front end of each of the separation membrane packages.

5 . The separation and recovery system of claim 4 , wherein the compressor compresses the gas stream transferred to the separation membrane package at a pressure of 5 bar to 15 bar.

6 . The separation and recovery system of claim 1 , wherein the polymer separation membrane module comprises a polymer separation membrane configured to selectively separate the hydrogen from a mixed gas containing hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, methane, and a light hydrocarbon gas.

7 . The separation and recovery system of claim 6 , wherein the polymer separation membrane is made of at least one kind selected from the group consisting of polysulfone, polyimide, and polybenzimidazole.

8 . The separation and recovery system of claim 1 , wherein the adsorbent is at least one kind selected from the group consisting of zeolite, a carbon molecular sieve, activated carbon, alumina, and silica gel.

9 . A separation and recovery method of hydrogen from a coke oven gas (COG) in a steel industry, comprising:
a pre-processing process of removing impurities comprising tar, moisture, oil, hydrogen sulfide, and dusts from the coke oven gas (COG); a membrane separation process of generating a hydrogen concentrated gas stream by membrane-separating the coke oven gas (COG) processed in the pre-processing process by using a polymer separation membrane module; and an adsorption process of separating and recovering the hydrogen by allowing the hydrogen concentrated gas stream to contact an absorbent.

10 . The separation and recovery method of claim 9 , wherein the polymer separation membrane module selectively separates the hydrogen from a mixed gas containing hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, methane, and a light hydrocarbon gas.

11 . A concentration method of hydrogen from a coke oven gas (COG) in a steel industry, comprising:
a pre-processing process of removing impurities comprising tar, moisture, oil, hydrogen sulfide, and dusts from the coke oven gas (COG); a membrane separation process of generating a hydrogen concentrated gas stream by membrane-separating the coke oven gas (COG) processed in the pre-processing process by using a polymer separation membrane module; and an adsorption process of separating and recovering the hydrogen by allowing the hydrogen concentrated gas stream to contact an absorbent.

12 . The concentration method of claim 11 , wherein the polymer separation membrane module selectively separates the hydrogen from a mixed gas containing hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, methane, and a light hydrocarbon gas.

Assignees

• Korea Res Inst Chemical Tech

Inventors

• Kim Jeong Hoon
• Jeon Jong Yeol
• Park Bo Ryoung
• Kang Ho Cheol

Classifications

• C01B2203/147

  Three or more purification steps in series · CPC title

• C01B2203/0485

  the impurity being a sulfur compound · CPC title

• C01B2203/048

  the impurity being an organic compound · CPC title

• C01B2203/042

  Purification by adsorption on solids · CPC title

• C01B2203/0415

  Purification by absorption in liquids · CPC title