EP4232532A1 - Elastomermembran und deren verwendung zur methanreinigung - Google Patents
Elastomermembran und deren verwendung zur methanreinigungInfo
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Definitions
- the present invention relates to the use of polymeric separation membranes for the purification of methane obtained by methanation.
- Methanation i.e. the production of methane - also referred to as "synthetic natural gas” (SNG for short) - through the hydrogenation of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide
- SNG synthetic natural gas
- CO 2 due to the low CO 2 content of the air (around 400 ppm) and the high energy consumption of chemical separation processes was until recently considered inefficient and hardly feasible on an industrial scale, is increasingly becoming the focus of process engineers.
- the limit values for the concentrations of H 2 and CO 2 are in the single-digit percentage range, eg according to ⁇ VGW guideline G31 at a maximum of 4 vol% H 2 and 2 vol% CO 2 .
- membrane separation processes are often used to separate the methane from other by-products and unreacted starting products.
- H 2 and, separately, CO 2 are produced by water electrolysis, from which CH 4 is then formed by methanation, which can then be fed into a natural gas grid.
- a membrane separation system is disclosed using gas separation membranes that are capable of selectively separating CO 2 and H 2 and optionally also H 2 O from the CH 4 produced, for which polymer film, Metal and ceramic membranes are disclosed as suitable.
- the gas separation preferably takes place in a single membrane separation step, ie using membranes which have a higher selectivity for all three gases to be removed than for CH 4 .
- membranes made of plastic in particular polyimide membranes, are disclosed for which a selectivity in the separation of H 2 /CH 4 of 60 and for CO 2 /CH 4 of 20 is disclosed.
- polyimide membranes a selectivity for the H 2 O/CH 4 separation of over 100 up to 1000 is also disclosed.
- the selectivity is specified as parameter a, which is the so-called ideal selectivity for a gas pair, ie the ratio of the permeabilities P of the two gas components for a specific membrane type.
- a is the so-called ideal selectivity for a gas pair, ie the ratio of the permeabilities P of the two gas components for a specific membrane type.
- ⁇ 1 , ⁇ 2 and ⁇ 3 are hereinafter referred to as ⁇ 1 , ⁇ 2 and ⁇ 3 respectively according to the following formulas:
- Membranes are known because they have similarly high selectivities for the H 2 /CH 4 and CO 2 /CH 4 separations, with which the gas membrane separation can be operated very efficiently, since they ensure high gas yields and purities and a relatively low recompression capacity.
- Recompression capacity is understood here to mean the expenditure of energy that is required to apply the pressure prevailing during methanation to the permeate of the gas membrane separation that is recycled to the reactor and is depleted in CH 4 . This is usually a few to several dozen bars, sometimes even 100 bars or more, in order to shift the equilibrium of the methanation reaction towards the product side according to the principle of Le Chatelier and Braun, since the gas volume decreases during the reaction (from five molecules of reactants become three molecules of products).
- the selectivity of the H 2 /CH 4 separation using membranes according to the prior art is consistently higher than with CO 2 /CH 4 , ie ⁇ 1> ⁇ 2 or ⁇ 1/ ⁇ 2 > 1 , which also reduces the consumption of excess H 2 that is subsequently recycled.
- the selectivity of the H 2 O/CH 4 separation ie the value for ⁇ 3, is generally the highest.
- plastic membrane materials mentioned have in common that they must be in the glassy or hard-elastic, brittle state at the respective operating temperature of the membrane separation in order to be able to achieve the high selectivities in the gas separation. Because of this, preference is given to using membrane materials which have a relatively high proportion of aromatic rings, especially voluminous aromatics, in the polymer chains in order to ensure high glass transition temperatures T g . This avoids having to cool the membranes during the separation process in order to keep the polymers in the glassy state below the glass transition temperature.
- plastics, especially polyimides with relatively rigid polymer chains are hardly or not at all meltable. bar and insoluble in most organic solvents, which makes their processing difficult and expensive.
- elastomer membranes which, in contrast to the polyimide membranes described above, are used above their glass transition temperatures T g , ie in the rubbery state.
- polyethers such as polytetramethylene glycol or polytetrahydrofuran (polyTHF), polyethylene glycol (PEG) and polypropylene glycol (PPG), or also polyether block polyamide (PEBA) copolymers.
- polyethers such as polytetramethylene glycol or polytetrahydrofuran (polyTHF), polyethylene glycol (PEG) and polypropylene glycol (PPG), or also polyether block polyamide (PEBA) copolymers.
- polyethers such as polytetramethylene glycol or polytetrahydrofuran (polyTHF), polyethylene glycol (PEG) and polypropylene glycol (PPG), or also polyether block polyamide (PEBA) copolymers.
- polyethers such as polytetramethylene glycol or poly
- This object is achieved by the present invention by providing the use of polymeric separation membranes capable of selectively separating CO 2 and H 2 from CH 4 in a membrane separation step for the purification of CH 4 , H 2 and CO 2 comprising in a optionally pre-dried methane, product gas mixture of a methanation process contained, the use according to the present invention being characterized in that a) the separation is carried out at an operating temperature T B between ⁇ 20° C.
- the polymer membranes b1) are capable of separating CO 2 and H 2 from CH 4 simultaneously, b2) a higher selectivity for the separation of CO 2 than that of H 2 from CH 4 ie a ratio ⁇ 1/ ⁇ 2 ⁇ 1, and b3) have a glass transition temperature T g which is below the operating temperature T B .
- a method for the production of methane comprises the following steps: a methanation step in which a product gas comprising, in addition to CH 4 , H 2 O, H 2 and CO 2 is formed by reducing CO 2 with H 2 ; optionally a drying step in which H 2 O is removed from the product gas; and a membrane separation step for purifying the methane, in which the gas mixture obtained by the drying comprising CH 4 , H 2 and CO 2 is subjected to separation using separation membranes capable of separating CO 2 and H 2 from CH 4 selectively to separate and which is characterized in that a) the separation in the membrane separation step is carried out at an operating temperature T B between -20°C and 100°C; and b) polymer membranes are used which b1) are able to separate CO 2 and H 2 from CH 4 simultaneously, b2) have a higher selectivity for the separation of CO 2 than for that of H 2 from CH 4 , ie a ratio ⁇ 1/ ⁇ 2 ⁇ 1, and b3)
- the plastic membrane with the highest selectivities for CO 2 and H 2 among the membranes according to the invention tested in the examples only has a value of 35 for ⁇ 2 (CO 2 /CH 4 ) and even only about 2.5 for ⁇ 1 (H 2 /CH 4 ), while for polyimide membranes, as cited above, values for ⁇ 1 (H 2 /CH 4 ) of sometimes well over 100 and for ⁇ 2 (CO 2 /CH 4 ) of at least 40 are disclosed. This is demonstrated by the comparative examples, among which an ⁇ 2 value of 70 was even achieved in an experiment by the inventors.
- the product gas of the methanation often contains much higher concentrations of H 2 than of CO 2 , especially if an excess of H 2 is used in the reaction.
- no excess, or at least no large excess, of hydrogen needs to be used since unreacted CO 2 can be separated more selectively from the methane produced anyway than H 2 - and of course can also be recycled. This lowers the overall costs for recycling, since, according to the invention, smaller amounts of gas have to be recycled.
- the examples show that with the preferred embodiments of the invention
- the selectivities ⁇ 1 and ⁇ 2 for the gas separations H 2 /CH 4 and CO 2 /CH 4 increase with decreasing temperatures.
- the selectivity ratio ⁇ 1/ ⁇ 2 surprisingly decreases further when the operating temperature is lowered. This means that the selectivity ⁇ 2 in the separation of CO 2 /CH 4 increases more than the selectivity ⁇ 1 of the separation of H 2 /CH 4 when the glass transition temperature is approached, ie when the rubber-elastic properties of the membranes are reduced.
- the material of the polymer separating membrane is not particularly limited according to the present invention, as long as it has a glass transition temperature below the respective operating temperature, ie it is in the rubbery state at the operating temperature, and causes the membranes consisting of CO 2 and H 2 are able to separate from CH 4 at the same time—and with the higher selectivity according to the invention for the separation of CO 2 /CH 4 than for the separation of H 2 /CH 4 .
- Plastic membranes suitable for this purpose can easily be determined by one of ordinary skill in the art using routine gas separation experiments.
- the separating membranes preferred according to the present invention include, for example, those made from polyethers, polyurethane-urea elastomers, polyethers, polysiloxanes and thermoplastic polyether-block-polyamide (PEBA) copolymers, particular preference being given to using PEBA copolymer membranes, since the above surprising effects can be achieved reproducibly with these membranes due to the particularly low ratio between ⁇ 1 and ⁇ 2.
- PEBA thermoplastic polyether-block-polyamide
- the content of CO 2 in the cleaned methane is reduced to below 2% by volume, more preferably below 1 VoL%, in particular below 0.5 VoL%; and/or the H 2 content in the purified methane to below 10% by volume, below 8% by volume, below 4% by volume or below 2% by volume, particularly preferably below 10% by volume or below 8% by volume , lowered.
- the actual methanation reaction in reactor 01 is carried out by hydrogenation of carbon dioxide, preferably originating from the ambient air, according to the reaction equation
- this is subjected to a pre-treatment step prior to gas separation, which usually includes (pre)drying and, if necessary, temperature adjustment and/or the removal of particles and others (e.g. from the ambient air) for the Membranes includes potentially harmful components such as ammonia or higher hydrocarbons, and the application of the gas stream with the pressure required for membrane separation.
- the pre-treated product gas 102 passes through control valve 1 1 into the gas membrane separator Gate 03, which comprises at least one membrane separation stage using the polymer membranes to be used according to the invention and separates the gas mixture into at least one high-pressure retentate stream 107 and at least one low-pressure permeate stream 103.
- CO 2 and H 2 Due to the higher selectivity of the membranes for the gas components CO 2 and H 2 in comparison to CH 4 , CO 2 and H 2 are simultaneously enriched in the permeate stream 103 and depleted in the retentate stream 107 .
- membranes with the highest possible selectivities for H 2 and CO 2 in relation to CH 4 are used in the separator 02, ie membranes with the highest possible values for ⁇ 1 and ⁇ 2 in order to separate the largest possible amounts of these two gases per separation stage separate from the product gas stream.
- These are all polymer membranes, in particular polyimide membranes, in the glassy state below their glass transition temperature, all of which have a higher selectivity for the separation of H 2 than for that of CO 2 from CH 4 , ie a ratio ⁇ 1/ ⁇ 2 > 1 .
- the separator according to the present invention nevertheless comprises a large number of membrane separation stages of the polymer membranes to be used according to the invention in order to reduce the CO 2 content in the retentate stream 107, ie in the purified methane, to below 2% by volume, more preferably below 1% by volume -%, in particular below 0.5 vol%; and/or to reduce the content of H 2 to below 10% by volume, below 8% by volume, below 4% by volume or below 2% by volume, particularly preferably to below 10% by volume or below 8% by volume ; in particular both, since in this way the cleaned methane in the retentate 107 has a sufficiently low concentration of CO 2 and H 2 in order—after the concentration has been measured by means of an analyzer 13—to be fed via a control valve 12 into a natural gas network shown as a bold line 21 to be able to.
- the permeate 103 is then subjected to the pressure desired for the methanation in a compressor 05 and reintroduced into the reactor 01 as compressed recyclate 105 .
- the gas analyzer 13 is preferably primarily a CO 2 analyzer due to the lower limit value for CO 2 .
- the control valve 11, the control valve 12, the compressor 05 and the gas pre-treatment 02 for setting the temperature and/or pressure can be controlled as required. In this way, the ratio of the volume flows of retentate 107 and permeate 103 can also be adjusted.
- the temperature of the product gas flow can also be adjusted in the pretreatment step at position 02 in order, if necessary, to achieve the operating temperature T B according to the invention between -20 °C and 100 °C or a preferred operating temperature according to the invention between 0 °C and 60 °C, more preferably between 5 °C and 30 °C, in particular between 10 °C and 25 °C, the limits being included in each case.
- This ensures that the operating temperature T B is above the glass transition temperature T g of the polymer membranes to be used according to the invention if a specific type of membrane is to be used.
- the respective selection of the polymer membranes depends above all on their selectivity ratio ⁇ 1/ ⁇ 2 and on the composition of the respective product gas mixture generated in the reactor 01, ie on the concentrations of CO 2 and H 2 therein. If, for example, an excess of hydrogen is used for catalytic methanation and the H 2 concentration in the product gas stream 101 is (significantly) higher than that of CO 2 , suitable H 2 concentrations can be achieved in the retentate 107 preferably such polymer membranes are used in the separator 03 whose selectivity ratio ⁇ 1/ ⁇ 2 is less far or even relatively just below 1, ie which are able to separate CO 2 and H 2 from CH 4 almost equally well.
- the difference in the energy consumption for operating the process is essentially based on the compression capacity of the compressor 05, which has to compress different permeate volume flows depending on the gas separation membranes used in the separator.
- the higher the pressure in the reactor the greater the saving in compression power by the present invention.
- the gas membrane separation according to the invention results in a permeate volume flow of only 385 Nm 3 /h, which is more than half lower than that of 993 Nm 3 /h in the prior art, which is why a 30% lower compressor capacity is required to pressurize the permeate again with a pressure of 60 bar. At even higher pressures, the energy savings would be correspondingly higher.
- Table 2 overleaf lists some specific membrane types together with their respective selectivities ⁇ 1 and ⁇ 2 and selectivity ratios ⁇ 1/ ⁇ 2, namely polymer membranes in the glassy state below their glass transition temperature T, which are known to be used according to the prior art for the gas membrane separation of a methanation product gas g as Comparative Examples 2 to 4 (C2 to C4) as well as polymer membranes to be used according to the present invention in the rubbery state above their glass transition temperature with inverse selectivity ratios as Examples 2 to 7 of the invention (B2 to B7).
- ⁇ 1 and ⁇ 2 were either taken from the specialist literature or determined by the inventor through his own experiments. For this purpose, clean gas permeation tests were carried out at room temperature with the respective gas, ie CH 4 , CO 2 or H 2 , at different feed gas pressures, from the measurement results the linear proportionality factor as the quotient of the arithmetic mean of the measurements of the flow at different pressures and the respective pressure (m 3 /bar) and the quotient of the proportionality factors for H 2 and CH 4 as ⁇ 1 and that of the factors for CO 2 and CH 4 as ⁇ 2 for the respective membrane is used.
- the linear proportionality factor as the quotient of the arithmetic mean of the measurements of the flow at different pressures and the respective pressure (m 3 /bar) and the quotient of the proportionality factors for H 2 and CH 4 as ⁇ 1 and that of the factors for CO 2 and CH 4 as ⁇ 2 for the respective membrane is used.
- the values for the required compression capacity of the compressor 05 show that the membrane from example 8 used according to the present invention, which—like that from example 1—had a selectivity ratio ⁇ 1/ ⁇ 2 of around 1:10, again performed better than all commercially available membranes with an inverse selectivity ratio regularly used according to the state of the art for product gas purification.
- Example 9 The required compressor power calculated for Example 9 according to the invention is just above the average of that of the three comparative examples, but in both examples according to the invention - with identical CO 2 content - an H 2 content in the purified methane can be achieved, which here is even up to around 20 times higher than that of the prior art after that of Example 1 was already more than 10 times that of Comparative Example 1.
- Comparative Example 5 the very high selectivity ratio ⁇ 1/ ⁇ 2 of around 2.7 in Comparative Example 5 is based on the inventor's laboratory measurements (see Table 2, Comparative Example 3, "Experiment"), which in practical operation of a gas purification system is nowhere near will be achievable, which is why significantly larger amounts of permeate would have to be recycled and recompressed in this case, which would further increase the required compressor capacity. It would therefore be realistic for Comparative Example 6 to have a compressor power requirement that is approximately between those of Comparative Examples 5 and 7—and thus in the range of Example 8.
- the present invention thus provides a new process for the production of methane by methanation and subsequent purification by means of gas membrane separation, which not only, but above all, has great advantages over the processes according to the prior art when very low limit values for the concentration of CO 2 in the cleaned methane must be complied with.
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| PCT/EP2021/079207 WO2022084445A1 (de) | 2020-10-22 | 2021-10-21 | Elastomermembran und deren verwendung zur methanreinigung |
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