Intensification of low-grade methane enrichment in nitrogen mixture by CH4/CO2 displacement |
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| Authors: | QU Donglei YANG Ying QIAN Zhiling LI Ping YU Jianguo |
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| Affiliation: | State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China |
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| Abstract: | To solve the problem of CO2 uncompleted desorption in the process of CO2 displacement enhancing the adsorption separation of CH4/N2, a small amount of product gas CH4 was used as purge gas to improve the CO2 desorption. CH4/CO2 mixture gas obtained from desorption step was recycled as the displacement gas to enhance the enrichment of low-grade methane in nitrogen mixture. In this work, the research conducted the experiments for CH4/N2 separation using CH4/CO2 displacement intensification adsorption and the laboratory-made coconut shell activated carbon as sorbent. The mathematical models were built in gPROMS and the accuracy of models was verified by comparison of simulations and CH4/N2/CO2 breakthrough experiments. The performance of enrichment of low-grade methane with displacement intensification using different displacer was compared. The result showed that the process with CH4/CO2 displacement had higher purity product than CO2 displacement. The CH4/ CO2 mixed gas replacement enhanced vacuum pressure swing adsorption cycle experiment was carried out, which can jointly enrich 14% CH4/ N2 and 53% CH4/CO2 to 98.8%, and at the same time obtain a recovery rate of 77.8%. |
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| Keywords: | activated carbon methane carbon dioxide nitrogen vacuum pressure swing adsorption process intensification |
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