Method and installation for producing liquid energy carriers from a solid carbon carrier

• US 7,456,226 B2
• Filed: 12/13/2004
• Issued: 11/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sascha Schroeder, Ulrike Topf
• Original Assignee: Sascha Schroeder, Ulrike Topf
• Inventors: Topf, Norbert, Liebisch, Guenter
• Primary Examiner(s): PARSA, JAFAR F
• Application Number:
  US10/582,699
• Publication Number:
  US 20070129449A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,443 Days
• Field of Search: 518700-705
• US Class Current: 518/705
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 2300/09 Details of the feed, e.g. feeding of spent catalyst, inert gas or halogens
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 2300/0909 Drying
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 2300/0973 Water
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 2300/1284 by renewable energy, e.g. solar energy, photovoltaic cells, wind
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 2300/16 Integration of gasification processes with another plant or parts within the plant
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 2300/1637 Char combustion
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 2300/1659 to liquid hydrocarbons
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 2300/1665 to alcohols, e.g. methanol or ethanol
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 2300/1671 with the production of electricity
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 2300/1684 with electrolysis of water
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 2300/1884 with one stream being synthesis gas
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 3/06 Continuous processes
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 3/482 Gasifiers with stationary fluidised bed
• CPC Class Codes: C10J 3/54 Gasification of granular or pulverulent fuels by the Winkler technique, i.e. by fluidisation
• CPC Class Codes: C25B 1/04 by electrolysis of water
• CPC Class Codes: C25B 15/08 Supplying or removing reactants or electrolytes; Regeneration of electrolytes
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/36 Hydrogen production from non-carbon containing sources, e.g. by water electrolysis
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 20/129 Energy recovery, e.g. by cogeneration, H2recovery or pressure recovery turbines

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and installation for producing liquid energy carriers from a solid carbon carrier by means of gasifying a solid carbon carrier. The installation is at least comprised of a drying device, a gasification apparatus, a synthesizing device for synthesizing the liquid energy carrier, a device for effecting the electrolysis of water for producing oxygen serving as a gasification agent and hydrogen for the synthesis process, and of a combustion apparatus, which is connected to the output of the gasification apparatus for carbon-containing gasification residues and to the oxygen outlet of the device for effecting the electrolysis of water. According to the invention, at least a portion of the waste steam from the drying device and at least a portion of the residual gas arising during synthesis are fed to the gasification process in the gasification apparatus. In addition, the carbon-containing residuals from the gasification apparatus and a portion of the oxygen produced in the device for effecting the electrolysis of water can be fed to a combustion apparatus, and the carbon dioxide-containing and oxygen-containing waste gas from the combustion apparatus can be fed to the combustion apparatus in the form of a gasification agent.

Claims

1. A process for producing a liquid fuel comprising:

drying a solid carbon carrier in a drying apparatus,

producing oxygen and hydrogen in an apparatus for electrolysis of water,

supplying said oxygen as a gasification agent to a gasification apparatus and gasifying the carbon carrier in said gasification apparatus to produce a synthesis gas,

supplying said hydrogen and said synthesis gas to a synthesis apparatus and synthesizing the liquid fuel in said synthesis apparatus from said synthesis gas, and

feeding at least part of off-vapor from the drying apparatus and at least part of residual gas obtained in the synthesis apparatus to the gasification process in the gasification apparatus.

2. The process as claimed in claim 1, further comprising feeding carbon-containing residues from the gasification apparatus and part of the oxygen produced in the apparatus for the electrolysis of water to a combustion process in a combustion apparatus.

3. The process as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein the solid carbon carrier is one which has a reduced heating value and is, in accordance with its starting structure, conditioned to a required extent before introduction into the drying apparatus.

4. The process as claimed in claim 2, further comprising feeding a CO2—

and oxygen-containing offgas from the combustion apparatus as gasification agent to the gasification apparatus.

5. The process as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein said drying is carried out to thereby produce off-vapor being free of incondensable components, and said drying process is carried out in a closed system and without entraining air.

6. The process as claimed in claim 1 or 2, further comprising condensing in a condenser off-vapor from the drying apparatus which is not fed to the gasification process in the gasification apparatus.

7. The process as claimed in claim 1 or 2, further comprising purifying and/or cooling the synthesis gas before introduction of the synthesis gas into the synthesis apparatus.

8. The process as claimed in claim 2, further comprising purifying and/or cooling the synthesis gas before introduction of the synthesis gas into the synthesis apparatus, and feeding residues from the gas purification and/or residual gas from the synthesis apparatus not fed to the gasification process in the gasification apparatus to the combustion process in the combustion apparatus.

9. The process as claimed in claim 2, further comprising purifying and/or cooling the synthesis gas before introduction of the synthesis gas into the synthesis apparatus, and introducing waste heat obtained in the gasification process and/or the synthesis of the liquid fuel and/or the combustion process and/or the gas purification and gas cooling into the drying apparatus.

10. The process as claimed in claim 2, wherein the gasification apparatus is connected to an outlet of the synthesis apparatus, said outlet being an outlet for a residual gas from the synthesis apparatus.

11. The process as claimed in claim 2, further comprising providing an apparatus for gas purification and/or cooling positioned between the gasification apparatus and the combustion apparatus and/or between the combustion apparatus and the synthesis apparatus.

12. The process as claimed in claim 11, wherein said apparatus for gas purification and/or cooling comprises a fluidized-bed apparatus with integrated steam generation and a steam outlet connected to a heating steam inlet of the drying apparatus.

13. The process as claimed in claim 2, further comprising providing a waste heat collection apparatus which collects waste heat from the gasification apparatus and/or the synthesis apparatus and/or the combustion apparatus and passes it to the drying apparatus.

14. The process as claimed in claim 2, further comprising providing an outlet for off-vapor from the drying apparatus and/or an outlet for residual gas from the synthesis apparatus connected to the gasification apparatus through a device for regulating an amount of the off-vapor and/or the residual gas.

15. The process as claimed in claim 2, further comprising removing ash from the combustion apparatus.