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The document discusses four studies related to hydrogen production and purification processes: 1) A study on hydrogen purification from a multicomponent gas mixture using vacuum pressure swing adsorption (VPSA). The simulation results matched experimental data and showed increasing the P/F ratio and decreasing feed time increased hydrogen purity and recovery. 2) A comparative analysis of temperature swing adsorption cycles for carbon capture, finding internal heat and mass recovery improved thermal efficiency over a basic cycle. 3) A hydrogen recovery system design for a petrochemical refinery using pinch analysis, showing the hydrogen network meets demand and excess can be provided from off-gas. 4) A process analysis of hydrogen production from biomass gas

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The document discusses four studies related to hydrogen production and purification processes: 1) A study on hydrogen purification from a multicomponent gas mixture using vacuum pressure swing adsorption (VPSA). The simulation results matched experimental data and showed increasing the P/F ratio and decreasing feed time increased hydrogen purity and recovery. 2) A comparative analysis of temperature swing adsorption cycles for carbon capture, finding internal heat and mass recovery improved thermal efficiency over a basic cycle. 3) A hydrogen recovery system design for a petrochemical refinery using pinch analysis, showing the hydrogen network meets demand and excess can be provided from off-gas. 4) A process analysis of hydrogen production from biomass gas

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Simulation and optimization for hydrogen purification

performance of vacuum pressure swing adsorption

Abstract

A study was performed for hydrogen purification of multicomponent mixture


(N2/CO/CO2/CH4/H2=0.007/0.012/0.17/ 0.021/0.79) by one-column VPSA with
AC5-KS. The performance of the one-column VPSA process can be predicted by a
heat and mass transfer model with porous media adsorption. The simulation results
agreed well with experimental data. The model was employed to assess the effects
of P/F ratio and adsorption time in VPSA unit. The result showed an increase in
P/F ratio and a decrease in feeding time led to an increase in purity of hydrogen
and a decrease in recovery. The Sequential Quadratic Programming method was
applied to optimize the cycle. The result showed when pressure was set at 5 bars,
feed rate was set at 5×10-5 m3/s and P/F ratio was set at 0.3, hydrogen was
obtained with a purity of 99.17% and recovery of 58.94% after purification in
N2/CO/CO2/CH4/H2 mixture.

Comparative analysis on temperature swing adsorption cycle for carbon capture by


using internal heat/mass recovery:
Due to relatively high energy consumption of absorption technology, adsorption
carbon dioxide capture is gathering the momentum in recent years. This paper aims
to further improve the thermal performance of a 4- step temperature swing
adsorption cycle by integrating internal mass recovery and heat recovery. Energy
efficiency is evaluated by using adsorption characteristics of activated carbon and
compared in terms of four different situations i.e. basic cycle, heat recovery cycle,
mass recovery cycle, heat and mass recovery cycle, which could illustrate the
advantages and disadvantages of different recovery technologies. Results
demonstrate that heat recovery and mass recovery technologies are quite conducive
to improve the up limit of cycle thermal efficiency. Under the conditions of
different desorption/adsorption temperatures and pressures, exergy efficiencies
using recovery technologies could be improved by up to 2.86 times when
compared with that of basic cycle. Besides, in real application unused percentages
of adsorption reactor and metal ratio have large influence on the cycle performance
while mass recovery rate has a relatively small influence. One potential application
of the proposed recovery technologies is direct air capture in building ventilation
system since a largest improvement could be achieved at a low carbon dioxide
concentration.

Hydrogen recovery system design application in a petrochemical refinery:


Many processes in the refinery convert crude oil into high value-added products
(gasoline, jet fuel, diesel, etc.) by consuming hydrogen and meet the hydrogen
requirement from hydrogen producing processes or hydrogen purification units. In
new trends, the need for hydrogen in the refinery industry is increasing, and so
many studies on hydrogen networks are being made. In this study, hydrogen pinch
analysis was performed between the hydrogen producing and consuming processes
of the Tupras Izmir Refinery. Pinch analysis is an integration method that can be
applied to the hydrogen network as it is applied for heat networks and allows
seeing the deficiencies and surpluses in the hydrogen network. The results obtained
in this study show that the hydrogen supply meets the demand of hydrogen in the
refinery and the hydrogen network is in equilibrium. If the hydrogen demand
increases in the case of processing high sulfur crude oil, this excess hydrogen
demand is provided from an off-gas source in the refinery. The economic analysis
of PSA and membrane purification methods was carried out, and methods are
compared.

Process analysis of hydrogen production from biomass gasification in fluidized bed


reactor with different separation systems:
Gasification is one of the most effective and studied methods for producing energy
and fuels from biomass as different biomass feedstock can be handled, with the
generation of syngas consisting of H2, CO, and CH4, which can be used for
several applications. In this study, the gasification of hazelnut shells (biomass)
within a circulating bubbling fluidized bed gasifier was analyzed for the first time
through a quasi-equilibrium approach developed in the Aspen Plus environment
and used to validate and improve an existing bubbling fluidized bed gasifier model.
The gasification unit was integrated with a water-gas shift (WGS) reactor to
increase the hydrogen content in the outlet stream and with a pressure swing
adsorption (PSA) unit for hydrogen separation. The amount of dry H2 obtained out
of the gasifier was 31.3 mol%, and this value increased to 47.5 mol% after the
WGS reaction. The simulation results were compared and validated against
experimental data reported in the literature. The process model was then modified
by replacing the PSA unit with a palladium membrane separation module. The
final results of the present work allowed comparison of the effects of the two
conditioning systems, PSA and palladium membrane, indicating a comparative
increase in the hydrogen recovery ratio of 28.9% with the palladium membrane
relative to the PSA configuration.

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