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Hydrogen Production Facilities Plant Performance
and Cost Comparisons.  Final Report - March 2002.
(June 1999 to July 2001)

Rutkowski, Michael D.
Michael Klett
White, Jay S.
Schoff, Ronald L.
Buchanan, Thomas

Parsons Infrastructure and Technology Group Inc.

Table of Contents 179kb

Section 1
191kb
  List of Tables

iii

List of Figures

v

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

vi

Executive Summary

ES-1

1

Introduction

1-1

Section 2
352kb

2

Hydrogen Fuel From Coal Plants

2-1

 

2.1

Hydrogen Separation Device Process Design

2-1

 

2.1.1

Updated Assumptions for HSD Design

2-2

2.1.2

HSD Design

2-3

2.2

Hydrogen Fuel Plant

2-3

 

2.2.1

 Process Description

2-9

2.2.2

Effective Thermal Efficiency

2-11

Section 3
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2.3

Hydrogen Fuel Plant-1112ºF (600ºC) Membrane

2-12

 

2.3.1

Process Description

2-13

2.3.2

Effective Thermal Efficiency

2-16

2.4

Hydrogen Fuel Plant-572ºF(300ºC) Membrane

2-16

 

2.4.1

Process Description

2-17

2.4.2

Effective Thermal Efficiency

2-21

2.5

Hydrogen Fuel Plant-1112ºF(600ºC) Membrane and 80 Percent Hydrogen Transport

2-21

 

2.5.1

Process Description

2-13

Section 4
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2.5.2

Effective Thermal Efficiency

2-16

2.6

Cost Estimating

2-26

 

2.6.1

Approach to Cost Estimating

2-26

2.6.2

Production Costs (Operation and Maintenance)

2-28

2.6.3

Cost Results

2-29

2.7

Summary and Conclusions

2-33

3

Hydrogen from Coal and Natural Gas Based Plants

3-1

 

3.1

Cases 1,2 and 3-Hydrogen from Natural Gas Without and With CO2 Recovery

3-1

 

3.1.1

Natural Gas Conditioning

3-1

3.1.2

Natural Gas Reformer/Boiler

3-2

Section 5
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3.1.3

Water-Gas Shift Reactor

3-3

3.1.4

Acid Gas Removal

3-3

3.1.5

Hydrogen Purification

3-3

3.2

Cases 4 and 5-Hydrogen from Conventional Coal Gasification without or with CO2 Removal

3-10

 

3.2.1

Gasifier

3-10

3.2.2

Air Separation Unit

3-10

3.2.3

Particulate Removal

3-10

3.2.4

Shift

3-11

3.2.5

Sulfur Removal/Hydrogen Purification

3-11

3.3

Summary and Conclusions

3-16

Section 6
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4

Hydrogen Fuel From Wyodak Coal/ Biomass Blend

4-1

 

4.1

Introduction

4-1

4.2

Process Description

4-4

 

4.2.1

Gasifier

4-5

4.2.2

Air Separation Unit

4-5

4.2.3

Hot Gas Cleanup System

4-5

Section 7
254kb

4.2.4

Sulfuric Acid Plant

4-7

4.2.5

Hydrogen Separation/Conventional Turbine Expander

4-7

4.2.6

Effective Thermal Efficiency

4-8

4.3

Cost Estimate

4-8

4.4

Summary and Conclusions

4-11

5

References

5-1