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Thermo-economic analysis of integrated membrane-SMR ITM-oxy-combustion hydrogen and power production plant

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  • Sanusi, Yinka S.
  • Mokheimer, Esmail M.A.
  • Habib, Mohamed A.

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The demand for hydrogen has greatly increased in the last decade due to the stringent regulations enacted to address environmental pollution concerns. Natural gas reforming is currently the most mature technology for large-scale hydrogen production. However, it is usually associated with greenhouse gas emissions. As part of the strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, new designs need to be developed to integrate hydrogen production facilities that are based on natural gas reforming with carbon capture facilities. In this study, we carried out energy, exergy and economic analysis of hydrogen production in a steam methane reforming reactor integrated with an oxy-combustion plant for co-production of power and hydrogen. The results show that the overall system efficiency and hydrogen production efficiency monotonically increase with increasing the combustor exit temperature (CET), increasing the amount of hydrogen extracted and decreasing the auxiliary fuel added to the system. The optimal thermo-economic operating conditions of the system were obtained as reformer pressure of 15bar, auxiliary fuel factor of 0.8 and hydrogen extraction factor of 0.6. The production cost of hydrogen using the proposed system, under these optimal operating conditions, is within the range suggested by the International Energy Agency (IEA). Further analysis shows that the capital cost of the membrane-air separation unit (ITM) has the major share in the total investment cost of the system and constitutes 37% of the total capital cost of the system at the CET of 1500K. The exergy analysis, at the optimal conditions, shows that the major exergy destruction components are the combustor, the exhaust gas condenser, the membrane-steam methane reformer and the heat recovery steam generator with 19.5%, 8.1% 6.3%, and 6.3% of the fuel exergy destroyed, respectively. The proposed system is economically feasible at hydrogen purchase price of $30/GJ and natural gas price of $10/GJ or less.

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  • Sanusi, Yinka S. & Mokheimer, Esmail M.A. & Habib, Mohamed A., 2017. "Thermo-economic analysis of integrated membrane-SMR ITM-oxy-combustion hydrogen and power production plant," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 204(C), pages 626-640.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:204:y:2017:i:c:p:626-640
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.07.020
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