POLYGENERATION SYSTEMS
A polygeneration system, wherein the various units of the polygeneration system are integrated to effectively separate the undesired species. In one embodiment, a polygeneration system is provided that includes a syngas generator for producing a syngas, a syngas enrichment unit for separating undesired species from the syngas to produce an enriched syngas and a syngas utilization system that utilizes the enriched syngas to produce useful products and a stream to facilitate the separation of undesired species in the syngas enrichment unit. In some embodiments, the polygeneration system includes membrane reactor, catalytic burner and power generation unit.
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This invention was made with Government support under contract number DE-FC26-05NT42451 awarded by Department of Energy. The Government has certain rights in the invention.
BACKGROUNDThe invention relates generally to a polygeneration system and more specifically to integrating the various units of a polygeneration system to effectively separate the undesired species.
The effect of industrialization on the environment has been a subject of many scientific debates and recent discussions are focused on the effect of greenhouse gases on global warming. Power generation and large chemical industries are among the contributors to the total greenhouse gas emissions. These are single point sources of emissions compared to the distributed nature of emissions from other sources such as the automobile. Containing the greenhouse gas emissions from single point sources such as power generation is desirable in reducing the total greenhouse gas emissions.
There are various technologies being developed for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon dioxide from power plants as well as chemical industries. Both pre-combustion and post-combustion capture of carbon dioxide are the focus of intense studies in the recent times. In order to make power generation or chemical production an environmentally friendly process, it is important to separate all the undesired species, including carbon dioxide that would have otherwise been emitted to the environment. Separation of undesired species adds to the total cost of producing power or chemicals, hence technologies that enable capture of these undesired species efficiently are desired.
BRIEF DESCRIPTIONAccording to one aspect, a polygeneration system is provided that includes a syngas generator for producing a syngas, a syngas enrichment unit for separating undesired species from the syngas to produce an enriched syngas and a syngas utilization system that utilizes the enriched syngas to produce useful products and a stream to facilitate the separation of undesired species in the syngas enrichment unit. In some embodiments, the polygeneration system includes a gasifier, a particulate removal unit, a water gas shift unit and a power generation unit.
In another aspect, a polygeneration system includes a syngas generator for producing syngas, a syngas enrichment unit for separating undesired species from the syngas to produce an enriched syngas and a power generation unit that includes a gas turbine system for combusting the enriched syngas and to produce a hot expanded gas. The hot expanded gas is used to produce a first portion of steam in the steam generation system. The power generation system includes a steam turbine system that uses the first portion of steam from the steam generation system to produce power and a second portion of steam. The second portion of steam is used to facilitate separation of the undesired species in the syngas enrichment unit.
In yet another aspect, a polygeneration system includes a syngas generator for producing syngas, a syngas enrichment unit for separating undesired species from the syngas to produce an enriched syngas and a fluid stream comprising said undesired species. The polygeneration system includes a power generation unit that includes a gas turbine system for combusting the enriched syngas and a hot expanded gas. The hot expanded gas is used to produce a first portion of steam in the steam generation system. The power generation system includes a rankine turbine that uses said first portion of steam and the fluid stream comprising said undesired species from the syngas enrichment unit to produce power and a second portion of steam. The second portion of steam is used to facilitate the separation of said undesired species in the syngas enrichment unit.
In yet another aspect, a polygeneration system includes a syngas generator for producing a syngas, a syngas enrichment unit that includes a water gas shift unit and a separation unit. The water gas shift unit receives said syngas and produces a hydrogen enriched syngas. The undesired species are separated from the hydrogen enriched syngas to produce an enriched syngas and a fluid stream comprising said undesired species. The polygeneration system includes a power generation unit comprising a gas turbine system, a steam generation system and a rankine turbine system. The enriched syngas is combusted in the gas turbine system to produce power and a hot expanded gas. The hot expanded gas is received by the steam generation system to produce a first portion and a second portion of steam. The first portion of steam and the fluid stream comprising said undesired species are received by the rankine turbine system to produce power and a third portion of steam. The third portion of steam is provided to the separation unit to facilitate the separation of said undesired species.
In yet another aspect, a polygeneration system comprises an air separation unit, a syngas generator, a syngas enrichment unit, a catalytic burner and a power generation unit. An oxygen rich stream is produced in the air separation unit, which is sent to the syngas generator. The syngas generator includes a gasifier that is configured to receive a carbonaceous fuel and said oxygen rich stream to produce syngas. The syngas generator further includes a cooling unit to receive said syngas and to produce a cooled syngas. The syngas enrichment unit comprises a particulate removal unit, a syngas sweetening unit, a water gas shift reactor and a separation unit. The cooled syngas is received by the particulate removal unit to produce a particulate free syngas, which is received by the syngas sweetening unit to produce a sweet syngas. The water gas shift unit is configured to receive said sweet syngas and a first portion of steam to produce an hydrogen enriched syngas and a first portion of steam. The separation unit is configured to receive said hydrogen enriched syngas to produce an enriched syngas and a fluid stream comprising said undesired species. The fluid stream comprising said undesired species is sent to the catalytic burner to produce a non-flammable stream. The power generation unit comprises a gas turbine system, a steam generation system and a rankine turbine system. The gas turbine is configured to receive said enriched syngas to produce power and a hot expanded gas, which is received by the steam generation system to produce said first portion of steam and a second portion of steam. The rankine turbine system receives said second portion of steam and said non-flammable fluid stream to produce power and a third portion of steam, which is sent to said separation unit to facilitate separation of said undesired species.
These and other features, aspects, and advantages of the present invention will become better understood when the following detailed description is read with reference to the accompanying drawings in which like characters represent like parts throughout the drawings, wherein:
A polygeneration system 10 includes a syngas generator 4, a syngas enrichment unit 8 and a syngas utilization system 18, as shown in
Carbonaceous fuel 2 comprises, for example, coal, oil, natural gas, biomass, waste, or any other carbonaceous material. The carbonaceous fuel 2 is converted to the syngas 6 in the syngas generator 4 by a conventional process, including, but not limiting to gasification, partial oxidation, reforming and auto-thermal reforming. In one embodiment, the syngas generator 4 comprises a reactor unit and includes for example, a reformer; a partial oxidation (POX) reactor; an autothermal reactor and a gasifier. In one embodiment, the syngas generator 4 may further comprise a provision for cooling the syngas 6. In another embodiment, unconverted carbonaceous fuel in the syngas generator 4 is recycled back (not shown in
In the syngas enrichment unit 8, the syngas 6 is enriched to produce the enriched syngas 14. Enrichment of syngas 6 is typically achieved by increasing the hydrogen and/or carbon monoxide concentration in the syngas 6. The syngas 6 may include some undesired species that can be separated from the syngas 6 in the syngas enrichment unit 8. In one embodiment, enrichment of the syngas 6 is achieved by separating the undesired species. The undesired species includes, but is not limited to particulates, sulfur compounds, carbon compounds, chlorine compounds, nitrogen compounds, water, mercury and ammonia. Some of the undesired species originate from the carbonaceous fuel 2, while the others get generated in the syngas generator 4. In one embodiment, the syngas enrichment unit 8 is configured to produce a waste stream 12 containing the undesired species. In one embodiment, separating at least a portion of the undesired species in the syngas enrichment unit 8 increases the hydrogen and/or carbon dioxide concentration in the syngas 6.
In one embodiment, the hydrogen concentration in the syngas 6 is increased by a reaction of syngas 6 with water or steam, generally known as a water gas shift reaction. The water gas shift reaction is an inorganic chemical reaction in which water and carbon monoxide react to form carbon dioxide and hydrogen and is represented as
CO+H2O→CO2+H2
In one embodiment, removing at least a portion of the hydrogen from the syngas 6 increases the carbon monoxide concentration. In another embodiment, the carbon monoxide concentration in the syngas 6 is increased by the reaction of carbon dioxide and carbon to form carbon monoxide, generally known as reverse boudouard reaction, which is represented by
CO2+C→2CO
The syngas utilization system 18 is a unit that produces the useful products 22, including for example, power and chemicals. The syngas utilization system 18 is configured to receive the enriched syngas 14 and to produce the fluid stream 16. In one embodiment, the fluid stream 16 facilitates syngas enrichment by providing the heat required for the syngas enrichment. In another embodiment, the fluid stream 16 provides the pressure required for the syngas enrichment. In yet another embodiment, the fluid stream 16 provides the steam requirements of the syngas enrichment.
A polygeneration system 20 of the instant invention is shown in
The chemical synthesis unit 24 is configured to receive a portion of the enriched syngas 14 from the syngas enrichment unit 8 to produce the chemicals including hydrogen, ammonia, dimethyl ether, methanol or liquid hydrocarbons. In one embodiment, the chemical synthesis unit 24 employs Fischer-Tropsch process to produce hydrocarbons such as but not limited to gasoline and diesel. The power generation unit 32 is configured to receive a portion of the enriched syngas 14 as a fuel source to produce the power.
In one embodiment, the power generation unit 32 is a combined cycle power plant. A typical combined cycle power plant includes a gas turbine plant, a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) and a steam turbine plant. In the gas turbine plant, a fuel is combusted to produce a pressurized combusted gas that is expanded to produce the power and the hot expanded gas from the gas turbine is sent to the HRSG, which produces high-pressure steam that is expanded in a steam turbine plant to generate additional power. Using the enriched syngas 14 as the fuel source in the combined cycle power plant has many advantages including clean and efficient burning of the fuel, clean exhaust to the atmosphere, and efficient capture of greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide. In one embodiment, the power generation unit 32 is a simple cycle gas turbine plant using the enriched syngas 14 as a fuel source. In another embodiment, the power generation unit 32 is a steam turbine plant that uses the enriched syngas 14 in boilers either as a single source of fuel or combined with other fuels to produce high-pressure steam that runs the steam turbine. Other fuels that can be used along with the enriched syngas 14 include but are not limited to coal, biomass, oil and natural gas.
As described in the previous embodiment, the fluid stream 16 from the syngas utilization system 18 facilitates the enrichment of the syngas 6 in the syngas enrichment unit 8. In one embodiment, the fluid stream 16 is an inert gas stream from the chemical synthesis unit 24. In another embodiment, the fluid stream 16 is steam generated in the HRSG. In yet another embodiment, the fluid stream 16 is the steam partially expanded in the steam turbine.
A polygeneration system 30 of the instant invention is shown in
In one embodiment, the gas turbine 34 and the steam turbine 38 are coupled to the same generator. In one embodiment, the steam turbine 38 is a reheat turbine wherein the steam flow is taken out from a high-pressure section and returned to an intermediate pressure section after adding additional heat in the steam generator 36, thereby increasing the net power output. In one embodiment, a partially expanded fluid stream 28 is taken from the steam turbine 38 to be used in the syngas enrichment unit 8 to facilitate the separation of the undesired species from the syngas 6 to produce the enriched syngas 14.
Separation of the undesired species from the syngas 6 is achieved by a suitable technique, including physical and chemical separation techniques. In one embodiment, the particulates in the syngas 6 are separated by washing the syngas 6 with water. In another embodiment, some of the undesired species including the sulfur compounds are separated from the syngas 6 by scrubbing the syngas 6 with an amine solution. In yet another embodiment, some of the undesired species including sulfur compounds and carbon compounds are separated by using an absorption technique employing a solvent.
In one embodiment, a membrane separation technique is used to separate the undesired species from the syngas 6. Driving forces in a membrane separation technique include pressure, and/or concentration difference across the membrane. In a simple membrane separation process, feed stream is fed on one side of the membrane, wherein the membrane has different permeabilities for different species, thus effecting separation of the species. Permeability is defined as the molar flow of a species across the membrane per unit area of the membrane in unit time. A carrier stream is usually employed to carry the species that permeated through the membrane, thereby increasing the efficiency of separation. The characteristics of the carrier stream are such that the separation of the permeated species from this carrier stream can be done by a simple process. In one embodiment, the fluid stream 28 is used as carrier to separate the undesired species from the syngas 6.
In one embodiment, the undesired species to be separated in the syngas enrichment unit 8 is carbon dioxide and to achieve this separation a membrane that has high permeability to carbon dioxide is used. Steam is a preferred carrier for carbon dioxide as separating the carbon dioxide from the steam can easily be carried out by a simple process of condensation. In one embodiment, the fluid stream 28 is used as a carrier to efficiently carry the carbon dioxide that is permeated to the other side of the membrane.
A polygeneration system 40 of the instant invention is shown in
In one embodiment, a water gas shift reaction is used for syngas enrichment in the syngas enrichment unit 8, and the fluid stream 56 is used to provide the steam required for the water gas shift reaction. In one embodiment, a solvent is employed to separate the undesired species in the syngas enrichment unit 8, and the fluid stream 56 is used to provide the heat required for solvent regeneration. In another embodiment, a membrane separation technique is employed in separating the undesired species in the syngas enrichment unit 8, and the fluid stream 56 is used as a carrier for the undesired species that are permeated across the membrane. In one embodiment, a first portion of the undesired species is separated as the waste stream 12 in the syngas enrichment unit 8 shown by a dotted line in
A polygeneration system 50 of the instant invention is shown in
A polygeneration system 60 of the instant invention is shown in
In one embodiment, the oxygen rich stream 74 is sent to the syngas generator 4. Using the oxygen rich stream 74 instead of the air 58 to generate the syngas 6 has the advantage of smaller volume of the syngas generator 4. Another advantage of using oxygen rich stream is the increase in the calorific value of the syngas generated. In another embodiment, a first portion 66 of the fluid stream 56 is used to facilitate air separation in the air separation unit 62 and a second portion 64 of the fluid stream 56 is sent to the syngas enrichment unit 8 to facilitate the syngas enrichment. In one embodiment, a membrane separation technique is employed in the air separation unit 62 and the fluid stream 66 is used as a carrier for the species that is permeated across the membrane. In one embodiment, the membrane is permeable to oxygen. The oxygen lean stream 68 from the ASU 62 is mixed with the fluid stream 54 coming from the syngas enrichment unit 8 to form a mixed stream 72, which mixed stream 72 is sent to the rankine turbine 52. Addition of the oxygen lean stream 68 to the fluid stream 54 to form mixed stream 72 increases the mass flow to the rankine turbine 52, thereby increasing the net power output. The mixed stream 72 and the high-pressure steam 48 from the steam generator 36 are used as working fluid in the rankine turbine 52. In one embodiment, a portion of the oxygen lean stream 68 is sent to the gas turbine 34 as a cooling agent shown by a dotted line in
A polygeneration system 70 of the instant invention is shown in
The WGS unit 76 can be a catalytic or non-catalytic reactor unit. Some catalysts used in the WGS unit 76 include but not limited to the oxides of iron, chromium, copper, zinc, cobalt, and molybdenum. The WGS unit 76 can use either a sour syngas comprising sulfur compounds or a sweet syngas devoid of sulfur compounds. Devoid is to be understood as low concentration of a species rather than the absence of that species. The water gas shift reaction is an exothermic reaction and hence generates heat. In one embodiment, the heat generated in the water gas shift reaction is removed from the WGS unit 76.
A polygeneration system 80 of the instant invention is shown in
A polygeneration system 90 of the instant invention is shown in
A polygeneration system 100 of the instant invention is shown in
A polygeneration system 110 of the instant invention is shown in
In one embodiment, the impurity removal unit 106 substantially removes some of the undesired species as part of a fluid stream 15, including, but is not limited to, particulates, oxides of sulfur, chlorine compounds and ammonia. Substantial removal of the undesired species is removing about 80% to about 95% of the total impurities. Usually the membrane reactor 118 has limited capability to handle certain types of the undesired species such as particulates and hence it is necessary to remove these undesired species before the syngas 6 is sent to the membrane reactor 118.
The membrane reactor 118 has a suitable configuration including for example, hollow fiber module, spiral wound module, plate and frame type membrane modules. In one exemplary configuration shown in
Referring to the exemplary polygeneration system 110 shown in
In one embodiment, the membrane is permeable to carbon dioxide and the fluid stream 104 is used as the carrier for the carbon dioxide that is permeated across the membrane wall of the membrane reactor 118. By using a membrane that is selectively permeable to the carbon dioxide, simultaneous separation of the carbon dioxide and increasing the conversion of the purified syngas 122 to produce hydrogen is achieved. Another advantage of employing the membrane reactor 118 is that the water gas shift reaction can be conducted at high pressure, which improves the overall system efficiency when the purified syngas 122 is available at high pressure. The driving force for separation in the membrane reactor 118 is the pressure difference across the membrane and using the high-pressure steam 92 as a reactant and the low-pressure flow stream 104 as the carrier for the carbon dioxide provides this driving force.
The fluid stream 82 carrying the components, including, but not limited to carbon dioxide, hydrogen, carbon monoxide that are permeated across the membrane is sent to the catalytic burner 96 to produce the non-flammable fluid stream 98 that is sent to the rankine turbine 52 as a working fluid along with the high pressure steam 94. The undesirable species carried by the fluid stream 98 are separated as fluid stream 13 after the fluid stream 98 is expanded in the rankine turbine 52. Thus integrating the power generation unit 32 with the syngas enrichment unit 8 improves the overall efficiency of the polygeneration system of this invention.
In another embodiment the fluid stream 114 is used to facilitate the removal of the undesired species from the impurity removal unit 106 to produce a fluid stream 15 carrying a portion of the undesirable species. As described in the previous embodiment, the undesired species is separated either in the syngas enrichment unit 8 or in the power generation unit 32 or both.
A polygeneration system 130 of the instant invention is shown in
A polygeneration system 140 of the instant invention is shown in
An exemplary power generation unit 32 is shown in
While only certain features of the invention have been illustrated and described herein, many modifications and changes will occur to those skilled in the art. It is, therefore, to be understood that the appended claims are intended to cover all such modifications and changes as fall within the true spirit of the invention.
Claims
1. A polygeneration system comprising:
- a syngas generator for producing a syngas comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen;
- a syngas enrichment unit for receiving said syngas and for separating undesired species therefrom to produce an enriched syngas; and
- a syngas utilization system for utilizing said enriched syngas to produce useful products and a fluid stream to be provided to said syngas enrichment unit to facilitate separation of said undesired species.
2. The polygeneration system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said syngas is produced from a carbonaceous fuel.
3. The polygeneration system in accordance with claim 2, wherein said carbonaceous fuel comprises coal.
4. The polygeneration system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said syngas generator comprises a gasifier and an air separation unit.
5. The polygeneration system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said syngas generator comprises at least one of a reformer, a partial oxidation reactor, an autothermal reactor or a combination thereof.
6. The polygeneration system in accordance with claim 1 further comprises a pressure swing adsorption unit.
7. The polygeneration system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said syngas generator further comprises a syngas cooling unit.
8. The polygeneration system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said syngas enrichment unit comprises a water gas shift unit.
9. The polygeneration system in accordance with claim 8, wherein said water gas shift unit is a membrane reactor.
10. The polygeneration system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said syngas enrichment unit further comprises a separation unit for substantially separating said undesired species.
11. The polygeneration system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said syngas enrichment unit further comprise an impurity removal unit.
12. The polygeneration system in accordance with claim 11, wherein said impurity removal unit substantially separates said undesired species comprising at least one of sulfur containing compounds, nitrogen containing compounds, chlorine containing compounds, carbon containing compounds, particulates or combinations thereof.
13. The polygeneration system in accordance with claim 1, wherein said syngas utilization system further comprises a power generation unit or a chemical synthesis unit or a combination thereof.
14. The polygeneration system in accordance with claim 13, wherein said power generation unit comprises at least one of gas turbine, rankine turbine, steam turbine, combustor, steam generator or combinations thereof.
15. The polygeneration system in accordance with claim 14, wherein said steam generator is configured to produce a first portion of steam and a steam turbine is configured to receive said first portion of steam and to produce a second portion of steam, wherein said second portion of steam is provided to said enrichment unit to facilitate separation of said undesired species.
16. The polygeneration system in accordance with claim 14, wherein said syngas enrichment unit is configured to produce a fluid stream comprising said undesired species and a rankine turbine is configured to receive a first portion of steam and said fluid stream comprising said undesired species to produce a second portion of steam, wherein said second portion of steam is provided to said enrichment unit to facilitate separation of said undesired species.
17. A polygeneration system comprising:
- a syngas generator for producing a syngas comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen;
- a syngas enrichment unit for receiving said syngas and for separating undesired species therefrom to produce an enriched syngas; and
- a power generation system comprising: a gas turbine system for combusting said enriched syngas to produce power and a hot expanded gas; a steam generation system for receiving said hot expanded gas to produce a first portion of steam; and a steam turbine system for receiving said first portion of steam to produce power and a second portion of steam, wherein said second portion of steam is provided to said enrichment unit to facilitate separation of said undesired species.
18. A polygeneration system comprising:
- a syngas generator for producing a syngas comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen;
- a syngas enrichment unit for receiving said syngas and for producing an enriched syngas and a fluid stream comprising undesired species; and
- a power generation system comprising: a gas turbine system for combusting said enriched syngas to produce power and a hot expanded gas; a steam generation system for receiving said hot expanded gas to produce a first portion of steam; and a rankine turbine system that receives said first portion of steam and said fluid stream comprising undesired species to produce power and a second portion of steam, wherein said second portion of steam is provided to said enrichment unit to facilitate separation of said undesired species.
19. The polygeneration system in accordance with claim 18 further comprises a chemical synthesis unit to receive a portion of said enriched syngas.
20. The polygeneration system in accordance with claim 18 further comprises an air separation unit to receive a portion of said second portion of steam and to produce said fluid stream comprising said undesired species.
21. A polygeneration system comprising:
- a syngas generator for producing a syngas comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen;
- a syngas enrichment unit comprising: a water gas shift unit for receiving said syngas and for producing an hydrogen enriched syngas; and a separation unit for receiving said hydrogen enriched syngas and for separating undesired species therefrom to produce an enriched syngas and a fluid stream comprising said undesired species;
- a power generation system comprising: a gas turbine system for combusting said enriched syngas to produce power and a hot expanded gas; a steam generation system for receiving said hot expanded gas to produce a first portion of steam; and a rankine turbine system that receives said first portion of steam and said fluid stream comprising said undesired species to produce power and a second portion of steam, wherein said second portion of steam is provided to said enrichment unit to facilitate separation of said undesired species.
22. The polygeneration system in accordance with claim 21, further comprises a catalytic burner that receives said fluid stream comprising said undesired species.
23. The polygeneration system in accordance with claim 21 further comprises a pressure swing adsorption unit configured to receive said syngas and to produce an offgas stream to be received by said catalytic burner.
24. A polygeneration system comprising:
- a syngas generator for producing a syngas comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen;
- a syngas enrichment unit comprising: a water gas shift unit for receiving said syngas and a first portion of steam to produce an hydrogen enriched syngas; and a separation unit for receiving said hydrogen enriched syngas and for separating undesired species therefrom to produce an enriched syngas and a fluid stream comprising said undesired species; and
- a power generation system comprising: a gas turbine system for combusting said enriched syngas to produce power and a hot expanded gas; a steam generation system for receiving said hot expanded gas to produce said first portion of steam and a second portion of steam; and a rankine turbine system that receives said second portion of steam and said fluid stream comprising said undesired species to produce power and a third portion of steam, wherein said third portion of steam is provided to said separation unit to facilitate separation of said undesired species
25. A polygeneration system in accordance with claim 24 further comprises a chemical synthesis unit that receives a part of said enriched syngas.
26. A polygeneration system in accordance with claim 24, wherein said syngas enrichment unit further comprise a catalytic burner to receive said fluid stream comprising said undesired species.
27. A polygeneration system comprising:
- an air separation unit for receiving air and producing an oxygen rich stream;
- a syngas generator comprising: a gasifier for receiving a carbonaceous fuel and said oxygen rich stream to produce syngas comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen; and a cooling unit for receiving said syngas and producing a cooled syngas;
- a syngas enrichment unit comprising: a particulate removal unit for receiving said cooled syngas and to produce a particulate free syngas; a syngas sweetening unit for receiving said particulate free syngas and to produce a sweet syngas; a water gas shift reactor for receiving said sweet syngas and a first portion of steam to produce an hydrogen enriched syngas; and a separation unit for receiving said hydrogen enriched syngas and for separating said undesired species therefrom to produce an enriched syngas and a fluid stream comprising said undesired species;
- a catalytic burner for receiving said fluid stream comprising said undesired species and to produce a non-flammable fluid stream; and
- a power generation system comprising: a gas turbine system for combusting said enriched syngas to produce power and a hot expanded gas; a steam generation system for receiving said hot expanded gas to produce said first portion of steam and a second portion of steam; and a rankine turbine system that receives said second portion of steam and said non-flammable fluid stream to produce power and a third portion of steam, wherein said third portion of steam is provided to said separation unit to facilitate the separation of said undesired species.
28. The polygeneration system in accordance with claim 27, wherein said water gas shift reactor and said separation unit are combined into a membrane reactor.
Type: Application
Filed: Sep 28, 2007
Publication Date: Apr 2, 2009
Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (SCHENECTADY, NY)
Inventor: Wei Wei (Mission Viejo, CA)
Application Number: 11/863,781
International Classification: C10J 3/20 (20060101);