Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Syngas from Waste pp 145–167Cite as

H2 Production and CO2 Separation

  • Chapter
  • First Online:

  • 1616 Accesses

Part of the book series: Green Energy and Technology ((GREEN))

Abstract

A promising technology for H2 production and CO2 separation is based on water gas shift reaction operated in water gas shift membrane reactor (WGSMR). In such a reactor the synthetic gas reacts with steam in a catalytic bed to produce additional hydrogen and CO2. A H2 selective membrane allows the simultaneous production of hydrogen at a high purity level and a stream of concentrated CO2. The performance of such a reactor is defined in terms of CO conversion fraction, H2 recovered fraction and produced H2 flow rate. The chapter deals with the modelling of a WGSMR. A model developed to assist the design of a pilot scale, tube-in-tube reactor, is described. Simulations with the model are presented and discussed. The simulations were performed to analyse the effect of operating conditions (H2O/CO ratio, temperature, pressure and syngas flow rate), catalyst characteristics (catalytic bed efficiency, void fraction) and membrane length, on the reactor performance. The results provide quantitative information to define the set of conditions to obtain the target value of the H2 flow rate, with high values of CO conversion fraction and H2 recovered fraction, minimising the length of the H2 selective membrane. A last paragraph is dedicated to a short analysis of the main issues and foreseen solutions for the industrial application of the technology.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD   129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD   169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD   169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Learn about institutional subscriptions

Abbreviations

CSS:

CO2 capture and storage

IGCC:

Integrated gasification combined cycle

PSA:

Pressure swing adsorption

TSA:

Temperature swing adsorption

WGS:

Water gas shift reaction

WGSMR:

Water gas shift membrane reactor

References

  1. Holladay JD, Hu J, King DL, Wang Y (2009) An overview of hydrogen production technologies. Catalysis Today 139:244–260

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Garcia Cortés C, Tzimas E, Peteves SD (2009) Technologies for coal based hydrogen and electricity co-production power plants with CO2 capture. Joint Research Centre report JRC49206, EUR 23661 EN, doi:10.2790/23969. http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository

  3. Raggio G, Pettinau A, Orsini A, Fadda M, Cocco D, Deiana P, Pelizza ML, Marenco M (2005) Coal gasification pilot plant for hydrogen production. Part A: coal gasification and syngas desulphurization. Second international conference on clean coal technology for our future, Castiadis (Cagliari) Italy, 10–12 May. www.sotacarbo.it

  4. Simbeck DR (2004) CO2 capture and storage: the essential bridge to the hydrogen economy. Energy 29:1633–1641

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Ladebeck JR, Wagner JR (2003) Catalyst development for water-gas shift. In: Vielstich W, Gasteiger HA, Lamm A (eds) Handbook of fuel cells: fundamentals technology and applications, Vol 3, Part 2. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, pp 190–201

    Google Scholar 

  6. Ciferno JP, Jones TE, Fout AP, Murphy JT (2009) Capturing carbon from existing coal fired power plants. Chemical Engineering Progress, April, pp 33–41. www.aiche.org/cep

  7. IPCC (2005) IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In: Metz B, Davidson O, de Coninck HC, Loos M, Meyer LA (eds) Special report on carbon dioxide capture and storage, Working group III of IPCC, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. http://www.ipcc.ch

  8. Ebner AD, Ritter JA (2005) Separation technology R&D needs for hydrogen production in the chemical and petrochemical industries. Chemical industry vision 2020 technology partnership www.chemicalvision2020.org

  9. Ebner AD, Ritter JA (2009) State-of-the-art adsorption and membrane separation processes for carbon dioxide production from carbon dioxide emitting industries. Separ Sci Technol 44:1273–1421. doi:10.1080/01496390902733314

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. Carbo MC, Jansen D, Haije WG, Verkooijen AWG (2006) Advanced membrane reactors for fuel decarbonisation in IGCC: H2 or CO2 separation? Fifth annual conference on carbon capture and sequestration, 8–11 May, Alexandria VA, USA. ECN-RX–06-084. http://www.ecn.nl/publications

  11. HYDROSEP (2010) Hydrogen separation in advanced gasification processes. RFSC contract RFCR-CT-2006-00003

    Google Scholar 

  12. Barin I, Knacke O (1973) Thermochemical properties of inorganic substances. Springer-Verlag, Berlin

    Google Scholar 

  13. Favetta B (2007) Modellizzazione e simulazione di reattori a membrana per la produzione d’idrogeno da gas di sintesi. Tesi di laurea (PhD thesis), Università di roma La Sapienza

    Google Scholar 

  14. AGAPUTE (2010) Advanced gas purification technologies for co-gasification of coal, refinery by-products, biomass and waste, targeted to clean power produced from gas and steam turbine generator sets and fuel cells. RFCS Contract RFC-CR-04006

    Google Scholar 

  15. Piemonte P, De Falco M, Favetta B, Basile B (2010) Counter-current membrane reactor for WGS process: membrane design. Int J Hydrogen Energ. doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2010.07.158

  16. Criscuoli A, Basile A, Drioli E (2000) An analysis of the performance of membrane reactors for the water–gas shift reaction using gas feed mixtures. Catal Today 56:53–64

    Article  Google Scholar 

  17. Enick RM, Hill JW, Cugini AV, Rothenberger KS, McIlvried HG (1999) A model of a high temperature high pressure water-gas shift tubular membrane reactor. ACS Fuels Fall (New Orleans) 44:919–923

    Google Scholar 

  18. Raja LL, Kee RJ, Deutschmann O, Warnatz J, Schmidt LD (2000) A critical evaluation of Navier–Stokes boundary-layer and plug-flow models of the flow and chemistry in a catalytic-combustion monolith. Catal Today 59:47–60

    Article  Google Scholar 

  19. Gosiewsky K, Warmuzinsky K, Tankzyk M (2010) Mathematical simulation of WGS membrane reactor for gas from gasification. Catal Today. doi:10.1016/j.cattod.2010.02.031

  20. Alefeld G, Volkl J (1978) Hydrogen in metals, Vols I and II. Springer-Verlag, Berlin

    Google Scholar 

  21. Sonwane CG, Wilcox J, Ma YH (2006) Solubility of hydrogen in PdAg and PdAu binary alloys using density functional theory. J Phys Chem B 110(48):24549–24558

    Article  Google Scholar 

  22. Jemaa N, Grandjean BPA, Kaliaguine S (1995) Diffusion coefficient of hydrogen in a Pd–Ag membrane effect of hydrogen solubility. Can J Chem Eng 73:405–410. doi:10.1002/cjce.5450730318

    Article  Google Scholar 

  23. Whitaker S (1972) Forced convection heat transfer correlations for flow in pipes, past flat plates single cylinder single sphere and for flow in packed beds and tube bundles. AIChE J 18:361–371

    Article  Google Scholar 

  24. Dullien FAL (1979) Porous media fluid transport and pore structure. Academic Press, London, UK

    Google Scholar 

  25. McCabe WE, Smith JC, Harriott P (2001) Unit operations of chemical engineering. McGraw-Hill, New York

    Google Scholar 

  26. Huang SC, Lin CH, Wang JH (2010) Trends of water gas shift reaction on close-packed transition metal surfaces. J Phys Chem 114:9826–9834

    Google Scholar 

  27. Smith RJB, Muruganandam L, Shantha MS (2010) A review of the water gas shift reaction kinetics. Int J Chem React Eng 8:R4

    Google Scholar 

  28. Callaghan CA (2006) Kinetics and catalysis of the water–gas-shift reaction: a microkinetic and graph theoretic approach. PhD thesis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Electronic Theses & Dissertation. http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/ETD/

  29. Pex PPAC, van Delft YC, Correia LA, van Veen HM, Jansen D, Dijkstra JW (2004) Membranes for hydrogen production with CO2 capture. Seventh international conference on greenhouse gas control technologies (GHGT-7), Vancouver, Canada, 5–9 September. http://www.ecn.nl/docs/library/report

  30. Kluiters SCA (2004) Status review on membrane systems for hydrogen separation. Intermediate report EU project MIGREYD NNE5-2001-670, ECN-C-04-102. http://www.ecn.nl/publications

  31. Ockwig NW, Nenoff TM (2007) Membranes for hydrogen separation. Chem Rev 107:4078–4110. doi:10.1021/cr0501792

    Article  Google Scholar 

  32. Gallucci F, Basile A, Iulianelli A, Kuipers HJAM (2009) A review on patents for hydrogen production using membrane reactors. Recent Patents on Chemical Engineering 2:207–222

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

I am grateful to Michele De Santis, Enrico Malfa, Stefano Martelli, Patrizia Miceli and Ali Smith for revisions and corrections. My special thanks to Paolo Granati for discussions and suggestions.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Centro Sviluppo Materiali, S.p.A, Via di Castel Romano, 100, 00128, Rome, Italy

    Antonello Di Donato

Authors
  1. Antonello Di Donato
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Antonello Di Donato .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. , ETSEIB, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Diagonal 647, Barcelona, 08028, Spain

    Luis Puigjaner

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2011 Springer-Verlag London Limited

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Donato, A.D. (2011). H2 Production and CO2 Separation. In: Puigjaner, L. (eds) Syngas from Waste. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-540-8_7

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-540-8_7

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, London

  • Print ISBN: 978-0-85729-539-2

  • Online ISBN: 978-0-85729-540-8

  • eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation