Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.13044/j.sdewes.d5.0188
Sulfur Rich Coal Gasification and Low Impact Methanol Production
Andrea Bassani
; Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento CMIC “Giulio Natta”, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
Giulia Bozzano
; Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento CMIC “Giulio Natta”, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
Carlo Pirola
; Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Chimica, Via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
Caterina Frau
; Sotacarbo S.p.A., c/o Grande Miniera di Serbariu, 09013 Carbonia, Italy
Alberto Pettinau
; Sotacarbo S.p.A., c/o Grande Miniera di Serbariu, 09013 Carbonia, Italy
Enrico Maggio
; Sotacarbo S.p.A., c/o Grande Miniera di Serbariu, 09013 Carbonia, Italy
Eliseo Ranzi
; Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento CMIC “Giulio Natta”, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
Flavio Manenti
; Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento CMIC “Giulio Natta”, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
Abstract
In recent times, the methanol was employed in numerous innovative applications and is a key compound widely used as a building block or intermediate for producing synthetic hydrocarbons, solvents, energy storage medium and fuel. It is a source of clean, sustainable energy that can be produced from traditional and renewable sources: natural
gas, coal, biomass, landfill gas and power plant or industrial emissions. An innovative methanol production process from coal gasification is proposed in this work. A suitable comparison between the traditional coal to methanol process and the novel one is provided and deeply discussed. The most important features, with respect to the traditional ones, are the lower carbon dioxide emissions (about 0.3%) and the higher methanol production (about 0.5%) without any addition of primary sources. Moreover, it is demonstrated that a coal feed/fuel with a high sulfur content allows higher reductions of carbon dioxide emissions. The key idea is to convert hydrogen sulfide and carbon
dioxide into syngas (a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide) by means of a regenerative thermal reactor. This is the Acid Gas to Syngas technology, a completely new and effective route of processing acid gases. The main concept is to feed an optimal ratio of hydrogen sulphide and carbon monoxide and to preheat the inlet acid gas before
the combustion. The reactor is simulated using a detailed kinetic scheme.
Keywords
Carbon dioxide reuse; Methanol synthesis; Improved coal gasification; Syngas from hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide emissions
Hrčak ID:
195031
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Publication date:
31.3.2018.
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