WO2002072240A2 - Method and equipment for removing volatile compounds from air - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for removing and recovering volatile emission such as volatile organic compound (NOC) emissions.
- volatile emission such as volatile organic compound (NOC) emissions.
- NOC volatile organic compound
- Non regenerable In these systems the adsorbent bed comprises a simple "cartridge" type system that is removed and replaced when saturated. The company supplying the system maintains responsibility for the removal and replacement of the carbon. These systems have a low capital cost and the operating costs simply reflect the regular removal and replacement of the carbon although further constraints in terms of the transportation of hazardous wastes may become significant. These systems are restricted to small gas flows and/or low organics levels to restrict the frequency and the volume of the carbon replacement. Regenerable. In these systems the carbon is regenerated in situ. Two types of system exist for continuous operation - multiple fixed bed and moving bed units. In the multiple bed units one or more beds are adsorbing whilst one bed is being regenerated and a further bed could be cooling back from the regeneration temperature.
- Regeneration is usually by steam although hot inert gas is sometimes used. In the case of steam regeneration further processing of the condensate containing the NOC is often required and this can be quite complex and expensive for organics with high water solubilities. Hot gas regeneration has a much lower thermal efficiency and the cost of the process can become dominated by the amount of hot gas required to bring the beds up to the regeneration temperature as steam has a higher thermal efficiency and the majority of the heat to initially raise the bed temperature comes from the heat of condensation of the steam.
- the rotating bed or "wheel" systems the carbon is contained in a single rotating bed where a sector of the bed passes in front of the inlet NOC contaminated gas stream whilst another sector passes in front of a hot regenerating gas. In this system the regenerating gas is usually nitrogen and the overall system is frequently used as a concentrator in front of a thermal oxidation system to avoid the use of combustion gas.
- regenerable carbon systems are complex with the requirement for further effluent processing. The complexity tends to make these systems very expensive for small gas flows.
- a further design limitation is the requirement to heat the regeneration gas to a higher temperature than the regeneration temperature as this is the only source of energy to bring the carbon bed to the desired temperature. This places minimum flow limitations on the regeneration gases which then impacts on the concentration of the VOCs removed from the bed during regeneration. This minimum flow limit may then impose a requirement for low temperature refrigeration of the effluent gas to achieve the desired NOC recovery.
- the gas flow requirement for the bed to reach regeneration temperature also imposes limitations on the cycle time - that is the combined time required for the bed to become saturated and then for full regeneration. Ideally the adsorption and regeneration cycle times should be equivalent when the process can be limited to a two bed system. If regeneration takes longer than adsorption then it will be necessary to use multiple bed systems.
- US Patent 5827355 discloses the use of a compacted activated carbon fibre bed. As shown in the patent this requires the formation of quite complex shaped adsorbent mats with small bed depths and its use is only claimed for air conditioning units rather than the higher industrial gas flows (1000m 3 /hour).
- a method for removing volatile compounds from air which method comprises passing the air over an adsorber comprising a monolithic porous carbon to adsorb the volatile compounds and then passing an electric current through the adsorber to heat the adsorber and drive off at least some of the adsorbed compounds
- the invention also provides apparatus for the regenerable adsorption of NOCs which apparatus comprises an adsorber bed which comprises a porous carbon monolith, a gas inlet and a gas outlet for the adsorber bed whereby gas or vapour can be passed over the adsorber bed and a means for passing an electric current through the adsorber bed.
- the monoliths preferably have a resistivity of between 0.1 and 50 ohms/m which allows effective electrical heating without excessively high currents or voltages
- the monoliths can be produced with a surface area of at least 700m /g, preferably in excess of lOOOmVg to give the required adsorption capacity
- the monoliths can be produced in minimum lengths of around 60 cm and they can also be joined to produce longer lengths without compromising the electrical conductivity.
- the monoliths useful in the present invention exhibit adsorption kinetics consistent with their use in the adsorption system. This enables long adsorber beds to be used.
- the way in which the monoliths are electrically connected is important as, if in systems where there are a plurality of monoliths, all of the monoliths are in parallel as far as the gas flow is concerned, the simplest way of electrically connecting the monoliths would then be to operate them in series as well.
- the reactor contains a significant number of monoliths, all connected in parallel, this will lead to a very low overall resistance and the requirement for a very high current, low voltage, power system.
- the use of all of the monoliths in parallel can also lead to problems with current maldistribution. If the resistance of the monoliths varies the total power carried by the lower resistance monoliths will be higher.
- a plurality of monoliths can be electrically connected together in series or in parallel to obtain an adsorber bed with the desired capacity and electrical properties.
- the gas flow through the monoliths will normally be in series. This enables the gas flow through the structure to be adjusted independently of the electrical characteristics of the bed.
- the frequently observed "poor" performance of monolith adsorbers can often be associated with a characteristic of the monolithic reactors we have termed "leakage”. This is a low level of NOC's that exits the bed almost immediately the feed is introduced and well before the normal breakthrough
- the leakage can be reduced by using multiple shorter lengths of monolith and further reduced if the multiple short lengths of monolith are separated by small spaces but where the overall monolith length in both cases remains unaltered.
- the shorter lengths of monoliths can be positioned so that the pore structures are not aligned e.g. if a longer monolith is divided into two or more shorter lengths the adjacent lengths are rotated relative to each other.
- the monolith bed is formed of a plurality of shorter monoliths joined together with a gap or space between the individual monoliths.
- the monoliths need to be connected electrically and with a gas tight conduit.
- One way of accomplishing this is to connect the ends of the monoliths with a metal connector such as a metal mesh and to surround the ends of both monoliths with a gas impervious plastic, it is convenient to use a shrink wrap plastics tube made of a material at the temperature for regeneration of the bed. Such material is widely available and a suitable material is sold under the Trade name " Flame Retardant Heat Shrink -RP4800" sold by Raychem.
- the electrical connection can either be directly soldered to the metal mesh or can be a further mesh connection under the existing mesh wrap.
- This system, using shrink wrap and mesh wrap can be readily applied to the construction of reactor systems containing large numbers of monoliths.
- the electrical connection between the monoliths and the mesh wrap can be further enhanced by copper plating the ends of the carbon monoliths although this will probably only be necessary for high current applications.
- Well known methods for copper electroplating metals can be used without further modification for electroplating the carbon monoliths.
- copper plating was achieved by immersing the ends of the activated carbon monoliths in a solution containing 25 Og of copper sulphate, 50g of concentrated sulphuric acid and lOg of phenol in 1 Litre of water.
- typical conditions were 2.5V and 2000 to 2500ma. Under these conditions a good copper coating could be achieved in between 30 and 60 minutes.
- Disclosed methods for the production of monolithic carbon structures are generally restricted to either polymer bound carbon structures (US 5389325), ceramic bound carbon systems (US 4677086, US5914294) or carbon coated ceramic structures. In all of these cases the presence of the polymer or the ceramic will preclude the use of electrical regeneration.
- the monolithic porous carbon useful in the present invention can be made by partially curing a phenolic resin to a solid, comminuting the partially cured resin, sintering the comminuted resin so as to produce a form-stable sintered product and carbonising the form-stable sintered product.
- porous is meant that the carbon has continuous voids or pores through which liquid or vapours can pass.
- monolithic By monolithic is meant that the porous carbon is in a single piece i.e. not granular or not composed of granular carbons bound together by a binder etc.
- the monolithic carbon preferably contains large transport channels through which the gas can flow and by which means the pressure drop can be controlled.
- the sintering is thought to cause the individual particles of the resin to adhere together, without the need of a binder, while retaining their individual identity to a substantial extent on heating to carbonisation temperatures.
- the particles should not melt to form a mass as this would result in loss of pore structure.
- the duration and temperature of the partial curing step and the amount of any crosslinking agent which is optionally added should be controlled so as to produce a comminuted sintered product of the required properties such as pore size, porosity, permeability.
- the comminuted resin particles have a particle size of 100 to 250 micrometers.
- the carbonisation steps take place preferably by heating above 600°C for the requisite time e.g. 1 to 48 hours and takes place under an inert atmosphere or vacuum to prevent oxidation of the carbon.
- EP 0 254 551 gives details of methods of forming the porous carbons suitable for forming the porous carbon and its contents are included herein by reference.
- Phenolic resins are well known materials. They are made by the reaction of a phenol and an aldehyde, e.g. formaldehyde. The condensation is initially carried out to produce a partially condensed product. The condensation may be carried out so as to produce a resin which is fully curable on further heating. Alternatively, the condensation may be carried out so as to produce a novolak resin which is only curable when an additional cross-linking agent is mixed with it, e.g. hexamethylene tetramine (known as "hexamine” or "hex"). It is preferred to use hexamine-cured novolak resins in the process of the present invention.
- hexamethylene tetramine e.g. hexamethylene tetramine
- the monolithic porous carbon can be activated to provide the necessary pore volume and surface area.
- Activation can take place in either steam or carbon dioxide at temperatures above approximately 750°C or in air at temperatures of between 400 and 500°C, or in combinations of these gases.
- the activation process is carried out for a time that varies with the temperature and the activation gas composition, such that a carbon weight loss of between 20 and 40% is achieved.
- the step of partially curing the resin for comminution can be carried out in at least two stages with the addition of a pore modifying agent part way through the partial cure.
- Monolithic adsorbers can be characterised by several structural parameters related to the physical form of the monolith and the inherent pore structure of the material comprising the monolith walls.
- the macrostructure of the monolith is defined by -the cell size, C, and the wall thickness, t (see figure 9).
- the pore structure of the walls is defined by the macropore size and pore volume and the micropore size and micropore volume.
- the monoliths have a cell structure (cells per square cm -cpcm) where the channel size is between 0.5 and 1mm and the wall thickness is between 0.5 and 1mm with an open area of between 30 and 60% to give a good carbon packing density per unit volume and acceptable mass transfer characteristics.
- the optimum structure is a cell size, c, of approximately 150 microns, with a wall thickness of approximately 150 microns, equivalent.
- the monolith gives equivalent dynamic performance to a granular carbon with a particle size of 300 microns but without the problems of pressure drop and attrition etc associated with the operation of granular beds.
- a critical aspect of the technology is then the ability to produce pure, electrically conducting, carbon monoliths with these controlled cell structures.
- the monolithic carbons are resistant to high temperatures and are biologically inert.
- Granular carbon has improved breakthrough characteristics compared with monolithic carbon but has a higher pressure drop which may then necessitate the use of compressors to achieve the desired feed flow through the beds when granular beds are used on there own.
- the granular bed sees clean regenerant gas which facilitates cleaning at minimum temperature.
- the granular bed preferably comprises granular or extruded activated carbon of particle size of 0.1mm. to 2mm and preferably has a volume of up to 15% of the volume of the monolithic bed.
- the apparatus of the invention can be used in a system which incorporates two or more beds so that when one bed is adsorbing the other bed is being regenerated so that the beds can be switched when the exit gases from the adsorbing bed reaches the legal or other limit.
- the system should operate at a voltage of around 60V, which minimises safety hazards and sparking, and is also relatively cheap and easy to provide via transformation from standard 240V supplies.
- the power required to regenerate a monolith is -150W; at 60V the required current per monolith is 2.4 amp, this then requires a resistance of 25 ohms for a single monolith. If 20 monoliths are connected in series each monolith requires a resistance of 1.2ohms and if 40 monoliths are connected in series a resistance of O. ⁇ ohm/monolith would be required. It can be seen that the number of monoliths required to be interconnected is strongly dependent upon the resistivity of the monoliths.
- the resistance of the monoliths can be controlled via the temperature at which they are processed and the resistance varies with carbonisation/activation.
- the preferred activation procedure for the monoliths is in CO 2 which requires a temperature of at least 850C. Lower temperatures can be used if the reactant medium is steam or if a catalyst such as sodium is present in the monolith. In the presence of low levels of sodium and with steam as the activating agent a temperature as low as 700C is possible. However this leads to inferior pore structure development compared with high temperature carbon dioxide. High temperature CO in the absence of catalysts is therefore the preferred route.
- Fig 1 shows the breakthrough characteristics of carbon adsorbers
- Fig 2 and Fig. 3 show arrangements of monoliths
- Fig 4 shows connection of the ends of monoliths
- Fig 5 shows monoliths in place
- Fig 6 shows details of the sealing of the monoliths
- Fig 7 shows the cell structure
- Fig 8 and Fig. 9 show performance of the monoliths
- Fig 10 shows the arrangements of shorter lengths of monoliths
- Fig 11 shows a two bed recovery system
- Fig 12 shows a two bed recovery system with a granular polishing bed
- Fig 13 shows a three bed recovery system
- Fig 14 shows the gas distribution and electrical connections used in the beds and
- Fig 15 shows the electrical connections
- Curve A for a typical granular adsorbent, shows a sharp rise in effluent concentration with a time to half inlet concentration of T 0 . 5 .
- the dynamic adsorption capacity is then defined as (C I -C B ) X TB-gmn.
- Novolak phenolic resin as originally supplied by BP Chemicals under the trade name Cellobond, in fine powder form was mixed with 3 parts weight hexamethylene tetramine (HEX).
- the mixed powder was placed in shallow trays and cured by heating at IOC/hour from room temperature to 100C, holding for 1 hour at 100C, further heating to 150C at IOC/hour and then holding at 150C for 2 hours.
- the cured resin had foamed to produce a solid "biscuit" which was then hammer milled to a grain size of around 500 microns and further milled to produce a fine powder with a mean particle size as defined by the monolith wall thickness and the desired macropore structure.
- the second milling stage is preferably carried out in a classifying mill to minimise the presence of large particles and can either be a jet mill for particle sizes below ⁇ 70microns or an attritor mill for larger particle sizes
- the cured resin powder is then converted to a dough for the extrusion forming. All additives should give essentially zero mass yield during the pyrolysis stage of forming process and must contain no metallic or other inorganic impurities.
- the dough is extruded to form the shaped monoliths which are then cured by heating.
- the optimum structure is a cell size, c, of approximately 150 microns, with a wall thickness of approximately 150 microns, equivalent.
- the monolith gives equivalent dynamic performance to a granular carbon with a particle size of 300 microns but without the problems of pressure drop and attrition etc associated with the operation of granular beds.
- a critical aspect of the technology is then the ability to produce pure, electrically conducting, carbon monoliths with these controlled cell structures.
- the series-parallel electrical interconnection of the monoliths allows us to independently adjust both the overall reactor resistance, which controls the voltage that is supplied to the system, and the number of watts per monolith, which controls the rate at which the system heats up during regeneration.
- This can be seen from the table which is based on a standard monolith resistance of 1 ohrn/m.and shows the number of monoliths required for a given voltage and number of watts per monolith. It can be seen that if the voltage of the supply is limited to say 50V and a power input of 90W/monolith is required to meet the design regeneration cycle, then we need 5 monoliths in series.
- the reactor design would use banks of 5 series interconnected monoliths in parallel to give the total mass of carbon dictated by the volume of the gas stream to be treated, the VOC (volatile organic compounds) content of the gas stream and the regeneration cycle time.
- the series electrically interconnected monoliths could then be connected in line to give a single long monolith, which would maximise the gas linear velocity through the monoliths, or in a looped configuration to give parallel flow paths, which minimises linear velocity.
- FIG. 2 The configuration of a reactor is shown schematically in figure 2. This shows a configuration with 4 monoliths connected in series (A, B, C and D) and three banks of these connected in parallel.
- the second requirement for the construction of a viable reactor are leak tight gas interconnections.
- the general reactor requirement is shown in figure 5 for the adsorption fig. 5a and regeneration fig. 5b cycles.
- the reactor looks like a conventional floating head heat exchanger.
- the monoliths (6) are sealed into a plate (7) that is in turn sealed into the reactor body.
- the head seals are shown in the next diagram.
- two or more location plates (8) are not sealed to the reactor body or to the monoliths and serve simply to prevent the monoliths moving and touching which could cause an electrical short. Gases can pass these plates either around the monoliths or between the plates and the reactor walls.
- the reactor head assembly can be seen in figure 6. This comprises the reactor head (14) with the inlet flap valve (15) and the main reactor body (16).
- the carbon monoliths are sealed into the reactor by a two part plate assembly (17).
- the monoliths are held in the two part plate assembly by the O-ring seals (18) where the O-rings are located in a either a chamfered or recessed groove in one of the plates.
- the groove on one plate forces the O-rings against the upper and lower plates and the monoliths providing an effective seal against gas leakage out of the reactor between the plates and past the monoliths into the reactor body.
- the whole head assembly is also sealed between the head and body of the reactor by the head gaskets (19) and the body gaskets (30).
- the O-rings are selected from a polymer that is capable of operating at the required regeneration temperature eg Viton, Kalrez (RTM) etc.
- the head and body gaskets can be beneficially produced from any flexible, compressible gasket material such as rubberised cork or flexible PTFE gasket material.
- the design of the reactor system minimises the temperature that these gaskets are exposed to as the walls of the containment vessel are partially cooled by the incoming purge gas. This method of assembly also makes it easy to remove and replace monolith elements should any get damaged.
- the regeneration flow can therefore be reduced to the minimum required to carry the des orbed VOCs out of the reactor to the collection system. This has the benefit of minimising heat losses from the system in the regeneration gas although waste heat in the regeneration gas could also be beneficially recovered by a feed-effluent heat exchange system.
- the temperature in the entire array is controlled by a single thermocouple in the outlet zone of the reactor (TCI) with power being supplied to all banks simultaneously from a single power supply.
- regenerant gas (Rl) passes through the feed-effluent heat exchanger (43) picking up heat from the reactor exit gas (El) as (R2) and entering the bottom of bed (42) warm.
- the gas is further heated by the power supplied to the monolith bed (42) and exits the bed at a higher temperature given by the power supplied, the specific heat of the gas and the specific heat of the monoliths.
- a significant improvement in performance can be achieved by introducing a small granular carbon beds (51), (52) into the flow pathway of the two bed systems of fig. 11.
- This granular bed comprises granular carbon of particle size and has a volume which is 10 % of the volume of bed
- the feed gas passes to the top of the first monolith bed (Bl ) and from the monolith bed to the first granular bed (Gl).
- Gl is used to polish the effluent from (Bl), allowing (Bl) to approach equilibrium uptake.
- reactor 2 (B2 +G2) is regenerating.
- the regenerant gas (RI) passes through the feed effluent heat exchanger (H), preheating the inlet gas to the granular bed (G2). As this gas is clean the temperature required to regenerate (G2) is minimised.
- the regenerant gas passes direct to (B2) and then to the heat exchanger (H). Cooled effluent gas passes to the cooling system where liquid is recovered and the VOC saturated effluent passes back to the feed to (Rl).
- This system is only feasible because it uses the electrically heated monolith beds as preheaters for the granular beds.
- the granular beds can either be separate beds or can be contained within the head space of the monolith reactors.
- the integrated regeneration is only possible because of the low regenerant gas flows and the use of electrical heating.
- Feed gas (F) enters the top of reactor (61) and then passes from the bottom of reactor (61) to the top of reactor 2 (62).
- the outlet VOC concentration from (61) in stream is the outlet VOC concentration from (61) in stream
- (61) and (62) are adsorbing reactor (63) is regenerating.
- Cold regenerant gas (stream Rl) is passed through a feed/effluent heat exchanger (64). This picks up heat from the reactor effluent stream (El), preheating the inlet gas to (63).
- the hot regenerant gas stream (R2) enters reactor (63) at the bottom, countercurrent to the original adsorbing gas stream. Heat is supplied electrically to the gas via the current passed through the monoliths.
- the temperature rise from the inlet to the outlet of the bed can be estimated from the power supplied (IV) and the thermal capacity of the carbon and gas.
- the first bed in the adso ⁇ tion cycle (63) is now the second bed from the second adso ⁇ tion cycle.
- the polishing bed is the bed regenerated in cycle 2 (61), whilst bed (62) moves to regeneration.
- fig. 15a shows the top flange with power inlet (71)
- fig. 15b shows the bottom flange with power outlet (72).
- the monoliths can be interconnected using a "printed circuit" approach where the tube sheets (7) shown in figure 5 are made of an electrically resisting materials such as is used in printed circuit boards and the monoliths are interconnected using copper tracks on the surface of the board as shown.
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