The present application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. CN 201310313794.2 filed on Jul. 25, 2013, the content of which is fully incorporated in its entirety herein.
The present disclosure relates to a device and a method for measuring reaction heat of gases, such as CO2, H2S or SO2 and the like, generated in chemical solvent absorption and desorption reaction process, in which an adiabatic condition of a reaction system is achieved by precise control of electric heaters, and which can precisely measure a heat release amount in the absorption reaction process and a heat absorption amount in the desorption reaction process.
The chemical solvent absorption method is a method which is easy to implement large-scale industrial application in current natural gas acid gas purification industrial, coal-fired power plant flue gas CO2 capture industrial, and the like, which has a broad prospect. However, the regeneration process of the chemical solvent after absorption requires consumption of a large amount of thermal energy, resulting in higher operating cost, and therefore, energy consumption characteristics of various chemical solvent formulations determine their possibility in economics. Therefore, an experimental evaluation method and an experimental evaluation device which can precisely measure gas absorption and desorption reaction heat must be provided in the chemical absorption solvent development and selection process.
Because the gas chemical absorption and desorption experiment requires the chemical solvent in a reactor having an appropriate volume (typically 0.2-2 liters) is performed and controlled at preset temperature and pressure parameters, and therefore, the calorimeter development is firstly to design a reactor which can easily adjust the state of the reaction, and then the reaction heat of the sample during material feeding reaction process or material discharging reaction process in the reactor is measured in real time. Because an electric heater is easy to install and control, the electric heater has more applications in reaction calorimetry. For example, U.S. patent document, the title of which is Micro-scale chemical process simulation methods and apparatus useful for design of full-scale processes, emergency relief systems and associated equipment, Patent No. of which is U.S. Pat. No. 4,670,404 issued on Jun. 2, 1987, discloses a method for controlling temperature difference between the sample in a micro (about 100 milliliters) reactor and a metal wall of an outer guard shell to be minimal with adoption of a peripheral guard electric heater to achieve the adiabatic condition of the reaction process, so as to simulate temperature and pressure changes of runaway exothermic reaction of a large-volume reactor, and provide guidance for the design of a safety system. But analysis shows that, in the method, when the electric heater outside the reactor heats the sample in the reactor, the temperature in an area where the electric heater is present rises and is greater than the temperature of the sample in the reactor, and is greater than the temperature of the outer guard shell, resulting in some heat dissipated toward the outside via heat conduction, a greater error will be caused when heat measurement is performed. In addition, when this patent technology is applied to the reactor having a large volume, if a large amount of heat is generated in the reactor when the exothermic reaction occurs to cause non-uniform distribution of the temperature of the solvent sample, the temperature of the wall surface of the reactor is smaller than the temperature of the center of the sample, at this time if the method which controls the temperature difference between the metal wall of the outer guard shell and the center of the sample to be minimal is still used, it will cause heat conducted toward the reactor, and bring an error in heat measurement.
With respect to the above-mentioned disadvantages of U.S. Pat. No. 4,670,404 which is applied to chemical reaction heat measurement in a large-volume reactor, a technical problem to be resolved by the present disclosure is to provide a manner suitable for controlling adiabatic condition of the reactor having a large volume, the adiabatic condition of the reactor can be maintained when the exothermic reaction occurs or endothermic reaction occurs in the reactor and electric heaters outside the reactor start heat compensation, so as to precisely measure reaction heat.
An object of the present disclosure is to provide a device and a method for measuring gas chemical solvent absorption and desorption reaction heat, which can effectively simulate gas chemical absorption and desorption reaction process in the large-volume reactor, and temperature and pressure state parameters of the reactor can be controlled and preset according to requirements. With precisely controlling peripheral guard electric heaters and main electric heaters outside the reactor, the present disclosure realize the adiabatic condition of the chemical reaction system so as to precisely measure a heat release amount in the gas absorption reaction phase and a heat absorption amount in the gas desorption reaction phase.
The present disclosure provides a device for measuring gas chemical solvent absorption and desorption reaction heat, which comprises: an outer casing; a metal guard inner shell; a reactor provided in a middle portion of the metal guard inner shell; a pressure sensor; a thermal insulation material provided between the outer casing and the metal guard inner shell; a group of guard electric heaters HGU and a group of guard electric heaters HGL provided respectively in an upper portion and a lower portion of an outer periphery of the metal guard inner shell; a glass fiber thermal insulation layer provided between the metal guard inner shell and the reactor; temperature thermocouples provided in the glass fiber thermal insulation layer; a glass fiber board provided in a lower portion of an outer periphery of the reactor; main electric heaters HR provided between the glass fiber board and the reactor; a magnetic stirring bar provided above a bottom portion of the reactor; a magnetic stirring apparatus provided at an outer side of a bottom portion of the outer casing; a liquid inlet pipe and a gas discharge pipe extending from an upper portion of the reactor toward a top portion of the outer casing; a temperature thermistor and a liquid discharge pipe extending from above the bottom portion of the reactor toward the top portion of the outer casing; a data acquisition board connected with signal wires of the pressure sensor, the temperature thermocouples inside the metal guard inner shell and outside the reactor in the glass fiber thermal insulation layer, the temperature thermistor extending into the reactor, and the temperature thermocouples in the glass fiber board; a computer connected with the data acquisition board; and a power supply connected with the guard electric heaters outside the metal guard inner shell and the main electric heaters HR outside the reactor.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a gas inlet pipe is provided so that a segment of the gas inlet pipe outside the outer casing is provided with a ball valve and a self-operated pressure regulating valve is positioned in front of the ball valve.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a segment of the liquid inlet pipe outside the outer casing is provided with a right angle tee, a vertical segment of the right angle tee is provided with a liquid feeding port and a ball valve, a horizontal segment of the right angle tee is provided with a safety valve, a ball valve, a pressure gage and the pressure sensor.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a segment of the gas discharge pipe outside the outer casing is provided with a self-operated pressure regulating valve.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a segment of the liquid discharge pipe outside the outer casing is provided with a ball valve.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, an area dividing line is defined between the guard electric heaters HGU in the upper portion of the outer periphery of the metal guard inner shell and the guard electric heaters HGL in the lower portion of the outer periphery of the metal guard inner shell, an area above the area dividing line is defined as a U area, an area below the area dividing line is defined as a L area.
The present disclosure further provides a method for measuring gas chemical solvent absorption and desorption reaction heat, which includes steps of: heating a sample solvent by main electric heaters HR provided in a lower portion of an outer periphery of a reactor; measuring temperatures of a wall of the reactor by groups of temperature thermocouples uniformly distributed at an outer side of the wall of the reactor, averaging the temperatures of the wall positioned in a lower portion area outside the reactor and inside the main electric heaters HR measured by the temperature thermocouples as TWL, averaging the temperatures of the wall positioned in an upper portion area of the reactor as TWU, uniformly providing a group of temperature thermocouples at a distance of 1-5 mm from the outer side of the main electric heaters HR and averaging temperatures measured by the group of temperature thermocouples as TIN, filling a glass fiber board between the group of temperature thermocouples and the main electric heaters HR; placing the assembly of the reactor and the main electric heaters HR in a metal guard inner shell filled with a glass fiber thermal insulation layer; providing an upper group of guard electric heaters HGU and a lower group of guard electric heaters HGL at positions on an outer surface of a wall of the metal guard inner shell corresponding to the main electric heaters HR for the reactor, at the same time uniformly providing an upper group of temperature thermocouples and a lower group of temperature thermocouples at positions on an inner surface of the wall of the metal guard inner shell respectively corresponding to the upper group of guard electric heaters and the lower group of guard electric heaters, averaging temperatures measured by the upper group of temperature thermocouples as TGU and averaging temperatures measured by the lower group of temperature thermocouples as TGL; powering the main electric heaters HR and the guard electric heaters HGU and HGL by a power supply, and measuring and adjusting heating powers of the main electric heaters and the guard electric heaters by a computer; placing the above assembly into an outer casing filled with a thermal insulation material, controlling that the temperature of the outer surface of the wall of the metal guard inner shell is equal to the temperature of the outer surface of the wall of the reactor or the temperature of the a glass fiber board outside the main electric heaters HR with a program, maintaining an adiabatic condition of the reactor when the exothermic reaction occurs or endothermic reaction occurs and the main electric heaters HR start in the experiment, and then calculating heat release amount or heat absorption amount of the reaction according to an internal energy change measured by experimental calibration and a Joule heat of the main electric heaters HR
When the gas absorption experiment is performed, the guard electric heaters HGU and the guard electric heaters HGL are firstly started, the guard electric heaters HGU and the guard electric heaters HGL are respectively controlled with a program in the computer and the temperature thermocouples to allow TGU and TGL to respectively trace and be respectively equal to TWU and TIN, the adiabatic condition of the reactor is maintained. The program can be adjusted by adoption of algorithm such as PID (Proportion Integration Differentiation), proportion, integration and differentiation parameters can be set in advance according to the sample quality and quantity. The main electric heaters HR outside the reactor are started, the main electric heaters HR are controlled with the program in the computer and the temperature thermocouples to allow the temperature of the absorption liquid to rise to a preset temperature TS1 from temperature TS0, a small amount of the gas will be absorbed in this process. Then the main electric heaters HR are turned off, the guard electric heaters HGL are controlled to switch and change the average temperature of the inner side of the metal guard inner shell in the L area, TGL, to trace and be equal to the average temperature of the outer side of the reactor in L area, TWL. The magnetic stirring apparatus is started and gas absorption exothermic reaction extensively starts, and the pressure of the reactor is maintained constant. Because the exothermic reaction occurs, the temperature of the absorption liquid in the reactor rises. When the temperature of the absorption liquid rises to TS2 and maintains constant, in combination with flow change of gas injected into the reactor, the absorption reaction can be judged as ending, the ball valve is switched off. After the experiment ends, the heat release amount of the absorption reaction is calculated according to an internal energy change of the reaction system from TS0 to TS2 and an input thermal energy change of the main electric heaters HR. And the internal energy change can be determined by performing the same temperature rising process experiment without chemical reaction with adoption of the sample of the same quality and quantity, the input thermal energy of the main electric heaters HR can be determined according to the Joule heat of the main electric heaters HR.
When the gas desorption experiment is performed, the guard electric heaters HGU and the guard electric heaters HGL maintain on-state, the guard electric heaters HGU and the guard electric heaters HGL are respectively controlled with the program in the computer and the temperature thermocouples to allow TGU and TGL to respectively trace and be respectively equal to TWU and TWL. At this time, the self-operated pressure regulating valve at the gas outlet of the reactor controls the reactor at a preset pressure in the gas desorption experiment, at the same time, the guard electric heaters HGL are controlled to switch TGL to trace and be equal to TIN. And then, the main electric heaters HR are started, the main electric heaters HR are controlled with the program in the computer and temperature thermocouples to allow the temperature of the absorption liquid to rise to a preset temperature TS3 from TS2 (the desorption reaction generates a small amount of gas in this process). The temperature of the absorption liquid in the reactor is lowered, and at this time, the heating power of the main electric heaters HR is automatically controlled with the program in the computer and temperature thermocouples to maintain the temperature of the absorption liquid at the temperature TS3. The magnetic stirring apparatus is started, to allow gas desorption endothermic reaction to extensively start, the pressure and temperature of the reactor maintain constant. When the heating power of the main electric heaters HR is zero, in combination with flow change of gas discharged out from the reactor, the desorption reaction can be judged as ending. After the experiment ends, the heat absorption amount of the desorption reaction is calculated according to an internal energy change of the reaction system from TS2 to TS3 and an input thermal energy of the main electric heaters HR. Similarly, the internal energy change can be determined by performing the same temperature rising process experiment without chemical reaction with adoption of the sample of the same quality and quantity, the input thermal energy of the main electric heaters HR can be determined according to the Joule heat of the main electric heaters HR.
The present disclosure is suitable for gas chemical solvent absorption and desorption selection experiment and reaction heat measurement of the large-volume reactor, compared with the prior art, the experiment precision can be significantly improved, the gas absorption and desorption experiments are easily performed. The sample temperature can be controlled to rise in step manner and the adiabatic condition can be maintained during the experiment, so as to determine the starting temperature point of the gas absorption reaction or desorption reaction. Measurement error of the experiment system can be tested and corrected by a standard media experiment.
Reference numerals are represented as follows:
1—outer casing
2—thermal insulation material
3—metal guard inner shell
4—temperature thermocouple
5—glass fiber thermal insulation layer
6—absorption liquid level
7—main electric heater HR
8—area dividing line
9—glass fiber board
10—reactor
11—magnetic stirring bar
12—magnetic stirring apparatus
13—guard electric heater HGU
14—guard electric heater HGL
15—ball valve
16—self-operated pressure regulating valve
17—liquid feeding port
18—ball valve
19—temperature thermistor for Ts
20—gas discharge pipe
21—liquid discharge pipe
22—safety valve
23—pressure gage
24—pressure sensor
25—liquid inlet pipe
26—gas inlet pipe
27—self-operated pressure regulating valve
28—ball valve
29—signal wire of pressure sensor
30—signal wire of temperature thermocouple at inner side of metal guard inner shell in U
area for TGU
31—signal wire of temperature thermocouple at outer side of reactor in U area for TWU
32—signal wire of temperature thermistor
33—signal wire of temperature thermocouple at inner side of metal guard inner shell in L area TGL
34—signal wire of temperature thermocouple at glass fiber board for TIN
35—signal wire of temperature thermocouple at outer side of reactor in L area for TWL
36—reactor apparatus schematic diagram
37—power supply
38—connection cable
39—data acquisition board
40—computer
Referring to
As shown in
Next, principles of the present disclosure are further described.
When the gas absorption experiment is performed, as shown in
U
TS2
−U
TS0
=Q+Q
JOU
When the gas desorption experiment is performed, as shown in
Q
JOU
=U
TS3
−U
TS2
+Q
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201310313794.2 | Jul 2013 | CN | national |