Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention provides a biomass pyrolysis gasification method and a biomass pyrolysis gasification system, which are characterized in that firstly, biomass raw materials are pretreated, the outer surface of the biomass raw materials is rapidly carbonized to form a carbon layer, pyrolysis volatile matters released from inside to outside in the subsequent microwave pyrolysis gasification process can be subjected to pyrolysis and reforming reaction with the formed carbon layer, the inherent power generated by tar is restrained from the root, the biomass pyrolysis gasification efficiency is improved, the economy of the process is improved, and the biomass pyrolysis gasification method has good application prospect.
The first aspect of the invention provides a biomass pyrolysis gasification method, which comprises the following steps:
(1) Sending the biomass raw material into a preprocessor, and performing rapid heating treatment under the action of a heat carrier and first working gas to obtain the biomass raw material with carbonized surfaces and a gas-phase material after treatment;
(2) And (3) sending the biomass raw material with carbonized surface obtained in the step (1) into a microwave pyrolyzer, and carrying out gasification reaction under the action of a second working gas to obtain a synthesis gas product and solid residues after the reaction.
In the biomass pyrolysis gasification method of the present invention, the biomass raw material in the step (1) may be any lignocellulose-containing material derived from corn stalk, rice hull, wheat stalk, wood block, leaf, branch, etc. Preferably for densities of not more than 400kg/m 3 The biomass raw material (such as straw and the like) is subjected to shaping pretreatment, wherein the shaping pretreatment process comprises air drying, crushing and shaping treatment, and specifically comprises the steps of physically extruding the dried and crushed biomass raw material (crushed to below 2 mm) under the condition of 10-20 MPa to obtain the biomass raw material after the shaping pretreatment, wherein the maximum directional dimension of the biomass raw material after the shaping pretreatment is not more than 60mm, preferably 20-40 mm. For biomass raw materials with large density and no need of forming, such as wood blocks and the like, the biomass raw materials can be directly cut and the likeA biomass feedstock of a desired size is obtained. In general, the maximum dimension of the biomass feedstock is not more than 60mm, preferably 20 to 40mm.
In the biomass pyrolysis gasification method of the present invention, the heat carrier in the step (1) is a substance having excellent heat conduction and a certain wear resistance, and specifically may be one or more selected from natural ore, metal oxide, silicon-containing compound, molecular sieve, zeolite, preferably one or more selected from natural ore, metal oxide, silicon-containing compound and molecular sieve. Wherein the natural ore can be one or more of quartz sand, olivine, dolomite, attapulgite, palygorskite, iron ore, pyroxene, malachite, sericite, chlorite, calcite, and maishi ore, preferably one or more selected from olivine and iron ore; the metal oxide can be one or a combination of several of aluminum oxide, ferric oxide, calcium oxide, magnesium oxide, titanium oxide, nickel oxide, zirconium oxide and molybdenum oxide, and is preferably one or several of aluminum oxide, nickel oxide and zirconium oxide; the silicon-containing compound is silicon carbide and/or silicon nitride, the molecular sieve can be one or a combination of more of ZSM series molecular sieve, SAPO series molecular sieve, Y-type molecular sieve, beta molecular sieve, SSZ molecular sieve, SBA molecular sieve and MCM series molecular sieve, and is preferably one or a combination of more of ZSM series molecular sieves. Further, the heat carrier is preferably one or more selected from olivine, alumina and nickel oxide, and when the heat carrier comprises olivine, alumina and nickel oxide at the same time, the mass ratio of the olivine, the alumina and the nickel oxide is 1:0.5-5:0.05-0.5.
In the biomass pyrolysis gasification method, the granularity of the heat carrier in the step (1) is 0.1-1 mm.
In the biomass pyrolysis gasification method, the first working gas in the step (1) is one or more than two of steam, flue gas and air, and is preferably steam; the volume flow of the first working gas is 1-10 m 3 /h。
In the biomass pyrolysis gasification method according to the present invention, in a further preferred embodiment, the first working gas in the step (1) may further contain an organic carboxylic acid, where the organic carboxylic acid may be one or a combination of several of formic acid, acetic acid, oxalic acid, acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, succinic anhydride, glutaric acid, adipic acid, citric acid, tartaric acid, malic acid, ascorbic acid, benzoic acid, terephthalic acid, mellitic acid, salicylic acid, caffeic acid, picric acid, and the like, and preferably one or several of formic acid, acetic acid, and oxalic acid, and the mass ratio of the organic carboxylic acid to the first working gas is 0.01-0.1: 1.
in the biomass pyrolysis gasification method, the organic carboxylic acid in the first working gas in the step (1) can also be partially replaced by the acidic gas-phase material generated in the pretreatment process, so that the gas-phase material can be recycled, and the use of exogenous organic carboxylic acid is reduced.
In the biomass pyrolysis gasification method, the reaction temperature of the pretreatment device in the step (1) is 300-700 ℃, and the reaction time is 1-60 s, preferably 5-20 s.
In the biomass pyrolysis gasification method of the present invention, the pretreatment in the step (1) may be a moving bed reactor, preferably a downstream moving bed reactor; the upper part of the reactor is provided with a biomass feeding screw, the lower part of the reactor is provided with a heat carrier feeding screw, a first working gas inlet is arranged below the heat carrier feeding screw, the direction of the first working gas inlet is obliquely upward, and the acute angle between the direction of the first working gas inlet and the vertical direction is 30-60 degrees; the biomass raw material enters the pretreatment device from a biomass feeding screw at the upper part of the pretreatment reactor and falls down by gravity, the high-temperature heat carrier enters from a heat carrier feeding screw at the lower part of the pretreatment device and rises through the airflow carrying of the first working gas, and heat exchange is started after the biomass raw material contacts with the high-temperature heat carrier, and the first working gas is insufficient to prevent the falling of the biomass raw material due to the large weight of the biomass raw material, so that the contact time of the biomass raw material and the high-temperature heat carrier is shorter, and the surface heat exchange is mainly carried out, so that the biomass raw material with the intact surface carbonization of the outer carbonized inner layer is obtained. Typically, the surface carbonized biomass feedstock is obtained in mass percent and in gaseous phase, wherein the surface carbonized biomass feedstock comprises 65 to 85wt%.
In the biomass pyrolysis gasification method, the mass ratio of the biomass raw material to the heat carrier in the step (1) is 1:1-10.
In the biomass pyrolysis gasification method of the present invention, the second working gas in the step (2) is one or a mixture of more than two of steam, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and oxygen, preferably steam; the volume flow of the second working gas is controlled to be 0.2-2 m 3 /h。
In the biomass pyrolysis gasification method, an alkali metal-containing compound can be introduced in the gasification process in the step (2), wherein the alkali metal in the alkali metal-containing compound can be any one or more of sodium and potassium; the alkali metal-containing compound can be alkali metal salt and/or alkali metal alkali, and concretely the alkali metal-containing compound can be one or a combination of more of potassium carbonate, sodium carbonate, potassium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide, potassium acetate, sodium formate and potassium formate, the alkali metal-containing compound is brought into the microwave pyrolyzer through the second working gas, and the mass ratio of the alkali metal-containing compound to the second working gas is 0.005-0.1:1.
In the biomass pyrolysis gasification method, the temperature of the microwave pyrolysis reaction in the microwave pyrolyzer in the step (2) is 400-900 ℃; the reaction time is 5-30 minutes; microwave power density 0.1×10 5 ~5×10 5 W/m 3 The method comprises the steps of carrying out a first treatment on the surface of the The pyrolysis product is a high-quality synthetic gas product and solid phase residues, wherein the solid phase residues account for 10-30wt% and the synthetic gas accounts for 70-90wt% in percentage by mass; the concentration of the high-quality synthetic gas product can reach more than 80%, the ratio of hydrogen to carbon monoxide is between 1.5 and 2.0, the carbon dioxide content is lower than 20%, the content of other impurity gases is not more than 0.5%, and the tar content in the gas is lower than 50mg/Nm 3 The synthesis gas yield of the whole process is not lower than 1.0Nm 3 /kg dry deashing biomass.
The biomass pyrolysis gasification method also comprises a step (3), wherein the content of the step (3) is as follows: and (3) carrying out gas-solid separation on the gas-phase material obtained in the step (1), enabling the solid obtained after separation and the solid residue obtained in the step (2) to enter a heat carrier regenerator, carrying out combustion regeneration under an oxygen-containing atmosphere, recycling the regenerated heat carrier to the preprocessor, and recycling high-temperature flue gas generated by combustion to the preprocessor as a first working gas. The high-temperature flue gas generated by combustion is circulated back to the preprocessor to provide heat for carbonization of the surface of biomass raw materials, so that biomass microwave pyrolysis materials with perfect external carbonization and internal integrity are obtained.
In the biomass pyrolysis gasification method, the regeneration of the heat carrier in the step (3) is performed in an oxygen-containing atmosphere, and the oxygen-containing atmosphere comprises one or a combination of more of air, oxygen and nitrogen mixed gas; preferably air, the volume flow of the oxygen-containing atmosphere is 1-10 m 3 /h; the treatment temperature of the heat carrier regenerator is 600-900 ℃; the regeneration time is 1-20 minutes.
In a second aspect, the present invention provides a biomass pyrolysis gasification system, the system comprising:
the pretreatment device is used for receiving the biomass raw material and the first working gas, and obtaining the biomass raw material with carbonized surfaces and the gas-phase material after the reaction;
the microwave pyrolyzer is used for receiving the biomass raw material carbonized on the surface from the pre-processor and the second working gas, and obtaining a high-quality synthetic gas product and solid-phase residues through a microwave pyrolysis gasification reaction;
the gas-solid separation unit is used for receiving the gas-phase material from the preprocessor and obtaining deactivated heat carrier and gas after separation;
and the heat carrier regenerator is used for receiving the deactivated heat carrier from the gas-solid separation unit and the solid-phase residue from the microwave pyrolyzer, burning and regenerating the heat carrier in an oxygen-containing atmosphere, and obtaining the regenerated heat carrier after treatment.
In the biomass pyrolysis gasification system, the gas obtained after separation of the gas-solid separation unit is circulated back to the preprocessor through the pipeline and enters the preprocessor through the first working gas inlet.
In the biomass pyrolysis gasification system, the regenerated heat carrier obtained after the heat carrier regenerator is treated is recycled back to the pretreatment for recycling through the heat carrier feeding spiral.
In the biomass pyrolysis gasification system, the gas-solid separation unit comprises more than one stage of gas-solid separators, preferably comprises two stages of gas-solid separators, wherein the gas-solid separator I is used for receiving gas-phase materials from the preprocessor, and deactivated heat carriers and one stage of gas-phase materials are obtained after separation; the gas-solid separator II is used for receiving the first-stage gas phase material from the gas-solid separator I, and separating to obtain gas and dust. The gas-solid separator is one or more of gravity sedimentation, centrifugal separation, filter screen separation, static electricity, adsorption and the like, but is not limited to the above mode, and the gas-solid separator can be one or more of cyclone separator, cloth bag filter, electrostatic precipitator and adsorption.
In the biomass pyrolysis gasification system, the pretreatment device adopts a moving bed reactor, preferably a descending moving bed reactor, a biomass feeding screw is arranged at the upper part of the reactor, a heat carrier feeding screw is arranged at the lower part of the reactor, a first working gas inlet is arranged below the heat carrier feeding screw, the direction of the first working gas inlet is obliquely upward, and the acute angle between the direction of the first working gas inlet and the vertical direction is 30-60 percent; the biomass raw material enters the pretreatment device from a biomass feeding screw at the upper part of the pretreatment reactor and falls down by gravity, the high-temperature heat carrier enters from a heat carrier feeding screw at the lower part of the pretreatment device and rises through the airflow carrying of the first working gas, and heat exchange is started after the biomass raw material contacts with the high-temperature heat carrier, and the first working gas is insufficient to prevent the falling of the biomass raw material due to the large weight of the biomass raw material, so that the contact time of the biomass raw material and the high-temperature heat carrier is shorter, and the surface heat exchange is mainly carried out, so that the biomass raw material with the surface carbonized inside which is intact is obtained.
In the biomass pyrolysis gasification system, the microwave pyrolyzer can be any type of microwave pyrolyzer in the prior art, preferably a horizontal moving bed reactor is adopted, and further preferably a segmented non-equidistant spiral conveying knot is arranged in the reactorThe diameter of the spiral blade is 1/2-2/3 of the inner diameter of the reactor, the ratio of the screw pitch to the diameter of the spiral blade is 1:0.5-2, and the screw pitch is reduced from the feeding end to the discharging section in a segmented manner so as to ensure the stability of the material level of the bed layer; the spiral conveying structure not only plays a role in pushing and conveying, but also has a dispersing and uniformly mixing effect, prevents the phenomena of agglomeration, aggregation and blocking of materials, ensures continuous and stable movement of the materials, and the spiral type comprises spiral sheets, spiral belts, vane type and the like. The microwave pyrolyzer is provided with a certain number of microwave quartz windows on the wall, each window corresponds to one microwave generator, the power of a single microwave generator is 500-2000W, the specific number of the windows is set according to the volume and other conditions of the reactor, and generally 2-10 windows are set, so that the power density in the reactor is ensured to be 0.1 multiplied by 10 5 ~5×10 5 W/m 3 。
In the biomass pyrolysis gasification system, the heat carrier regenerator adopts the longitudinal moving bed reactor, the inside of the reactor is provided with the multistage stirring structure, the diameter of a stirring prize is 1/2-3/4 of the inner diameter of the reactor, the acute angle between the stirring prize and a horizontal plane is 5-30, the stirring level is 2-5 (the number of longitudinal layers of the stirring blades) and 180 ℃ between each stirring blade of each level, the adjacent multistage stirring blades are 90 ℃ each other, the stirring structure plays roles of loosening, dispersing and uniformly mixing, the stirring types comprise slurry type, anchor type, turbine type and the like, the longitudinal stirring moving bed prevents the heat carrier from caking, aggregation and blocking, and the continuous and stable movement of the bed layer is ensured.
Compared with the prior art, the biomass pyrolysis gasification method and system have the following advantages:
1. in the biomass pyrolysis gasification method and system, based on the basic recognition of accelerating tar production by heat transfer and mass transfer isotropy of microwave heating behaviors, the inventor starts from changing the heating behaviors of biomass in a microwave field, obtains biomass raw materials with complete surface carbonization inside through the rapid surface contact heating of biomass raw materials with larger sizes and a heat carrier, and takes the biomass raw materials as the raw materials for the microwave pyrolysis gasification, and in the gasification process of a microwave pyrolyzer, the carbonized outer layer is preferentially heated by absorbing waves, and pyrolyzes and reforms pyrolysis volatile matters released inside, so that the internal power generated by tar is eliminated from the root, the biomass pyrolysis gasification efficiency is improved, and the tar production is reduced.
2. In the biomass pyrolysis gasification method and system, the developed downlink moving bed preprocessor-microwave pyrolysis combined process fully utilizes the biomass raw material with carbonized high temperature surface obtained in the downlink moving bed preprocessor as the biomass microwave pyrolyzer raw material, and directly carries out heating strengthening pyrolysis in a microwave field, thereby obviously reducing the energy consumption in the process of heating biomass by microwaves, improving the utilization efficiency of microwave energy and opening up a new path for combining the microwave pyrolysis technology with the conventional heating means.
3. In the biomass pyrolysis gasification method and system, the high-temperature acidic gas-phase material generated in pretreatment is used in the surface carbonization process of biomass to reduce consumption of externally-transmitted first working gas, the solid residue remained by microwave pyrolysis is used in the heat carrier regeneration process to reduce consumption of externally-transmitted energy in the regeneration process, and a small amount of cheap alkali metal compound is used in the microwave pyrolysis gasification process, so that KC (sodium carbonate) active substances can be formed with surface carbon preferentially, and further the pyrolysis efficiency of releasing pyrolysis volatile matters inside is improved. The process innovation can obviously reduce the process cost of preparing the synthetic gas from the biomass and improve the process economy.
Detailed Description
The following describes specific embodiments of the present invention in detail. It should be understood that the detailed description and specific examples, while indicating and illustrating the invention, are not intended to limit the invention. The following non-limiting examples will enable those of ordinary skill in the art to more fully understand the invention and are not intended to limit the invention in any way. In the following examples and comparative examples, the raw materials used are all commercially available unless otherwise specified.
As shown in fig. 1, the invention provides a biomass pyrolysis gasification system, the system comprises a preprocessor 2, a microwave pyrolyzer 4, a heat carrier regenerator 8, a gas-solid separator I6 and a gas-solid separator II7, wherein pretreated biomass raw materials fall into the preprocessor 2 from a biomass feeding screw 1, the high-temperature heat carrier enters the preprocessor from a heat carrier feeding screw 5 and rises through the carrying of first working gas, the biomass raw materials and the high-temperature heat carrier are subjected to solid-solid fast contact and heat exchange to obtain surface carbonized biomass raw materials and gas phase materials with intact outer carbonized inner layers, the gas phase materials firstly enter the gas-solid separator I6 for gas-solid separation, the solid phase deactivated heat carrier obtained after separation enters the heat carrier regenerator 8, the separated first gas phase materials enter the gas-solid separator II7 for further separation, the separated gases and dust are used as first working gas, the biomass raw materials with intact surface carbonized outer carbonized enter the microwave pyrolyzer 4 through a star-shaped discharger 3, the high-quality pyrolysis products are obtained under the action of second working gas, and the high-quality pyrolysis products are obtained by the pyrolysis products, and the solid phase materials are regenerated by the heat carrier regenerator 8.
Example 1
The dried biomass is crushed to be less than 2mm, and then is subjected to physical extrusion molding under the condition of 20MPa, so as to obtain a biomass raw material, and the maximum directional size of the biomass raw material is 40mm.
Example 2
The biomass raw material of example 1 and a heat carrier 1 (the mass ratio of olivine, alumina and nickel oxide is 1:0.5:0.05) are sent into a pretreatment device according to the mass ratio of 1:5, and the water vapor flow rate of the first working gas is 5m 3 Under the action of/h, under the condition of 600 ℃ and 30 seconds of heating time, solid-solid quick contact and heat exchange are carried out to obtain biomass raw materials and gas phase materials with complete surface carbonization inside carbonization outside carbonization, and gas obtained after the gas phase materials are separated is circulated to the pre-treatmentThe processor is used. Wherein the biomass raw material with carbonized surface accounts for 65 percent; the biomass raw material carbonized on the surface is sent into a microwave pyrolyzer, and the flow of the second working gas (the mass ratio of the potassium carbonate to the water vapor is 0.05:1) is 0.5m 3 Under the action of/h, the temperature is 500 ℃; the reaction time is 30 minutes; microwave power density 1 x 10 5 W/m 3 Under the condition, a high-quality synthetic gas product is obtained, the concentration of the high-quality synthetic gas product is 81 percent, the ratio of hydrogen to carbon monoxide is 1.54, the carbon dioxide content is 18.51 percent, the content of other impurity gases is 0.49 percent, and the tar content in the gas is 48mg/Nm 3 The synthesis gas yield of the whole process was 1.08Nm 3 /kg dry deashing biomass.
Example 3
The biomass feedstock of example 1 was fed to a pretreatment unit at a mass ratio of 1:10 with a heat carrier 2 (olivine, alumina, nickel oxide: 1:5:0.5) at a flow rate of 10m in a first working gas (acetic acid: water vapor: 0.05:1 mass ratio) 3 Under the action of/h, under the condition of 700 ℃ and 20 seconds of heating time, carrying out solid-solid rapid contact and heat exchange to obtain the biomass raw material with perfect surface carbonization inside of external carbonization, wherein the biomass raw material with good surface carbonization accounts for 85 percent; the biomass raw material carbonized on the surface is sent into a microwave pyrolyzer, and the flow of the second working gas (the mass ratio of the potassium carbonate to the water vapor is 0.1:1) is 0.5m 3 Reacting for 8 minutes at 800 ℃ under the action of/h; microwave power density 3 x 10 5 W/m 3 Under the condition, a high-quality synthetic gas product is obtained, the concentration of the high-quality synthetic gas product is 89%, the ratio of hydrogen to carbon monoxide is 1.67, the carbon dioxide content is 10.79%, the content of other impurity gases is 0.21%, and the tar content in the gas is 25mg/Nm 3 The synthesis gas yield of the whole process was 1.75Nm 3 /kg dry deashing biomass.
Example 4
The biomass feedstock of example 1 was fed to a pretreatment unit with a mass ratio of 1:3 between the biomass feedstock and a heat carrier 3 (olivine, alumina, nickel oxide: 1:0.1), and a flow rate of a first working gas (acetic acid: water vapor: 0.1:1) was 6m 3 Under the action of/h, at 550 ℃, heatingAnd (3) under the condition of 20 seconds, carrying out solid-solid rapid contact and heat exchange to obtain biomass raw materials and gaseous materials with complete surface carbonization inside, wherein the gaseous materials are separated to obtain gaseous materials which are recycled to the preprocessor for use. Wherein the biomass raw material with carbonized surface accounts for 79 percent; the biomass raw material carbonized on the surface is sent into a microwave pyrolyzer, and the flow of the second working gas (the mass ratio of the potassium carbonate to the water vapor is 0.1:1) is 2m 3 Reacting for 8 minutes at 900 ℃ under the action of/h; microwave power density 5 x 10 5 W/m 3 Under the condition, a high-quality synthetic gas product is obtained, the concentration of the high-quality synthetic gas product is 93 percent, the ratio of hydrogen to carbon monoxide is 1.74, the carbon dioxide content is 6.81 percent, the content of other impurity gases is 0.19 percent, and the tar content in the gas is 18mg/Nm 3 The synthesis gas yield of the whole process was 1.87Nm 3 /kg dry deashing biomass.
Example 5
The biomass feedstock of example 1 was fed to a pretreatment unit with a mass ratio of 1:5 between the biomass feedstock and the heat carrier 3 (olivine, alumina, nickel oxide: 1:0.1), and a flow rate of 4m in a first working gas (acetic acid: water vapor: 0.05:1 mass ratio) was set 3 Under the action of/h, under the condition of 500 ℃ and 10 seconds of heating time, solid-solid quick contact and heat exchange are carried out, so as to obtain biomass raw materials and gaseous materials with complete surface carbonization inside the external carbonization, and the gaseous materials obtained after the separation of the gaseous materials are recycled to the preprocessor for use. Wherein the biomass raw material with carbonized surface accounts for 70 percent; the biomass raw material carbonized on the surface is sent into a microwave pyrolyzer, and the flow of the second working gas (the mass ratio of the potassium carbonate to the water vapor is 0.08:1) is 2m 3 Reacting for 10 minutes at 900 ℃ under the action of/h; microwave power density 5 x 10 5 W/m 3 Under the condition, a high-quality synthetic gas product is obtained, the concentration of the high-quality synthetic gas product is 94 percent, the ratio of hydrogen to carbon monoxide is 1.92, the carbon dioxide content is 5.85 percent, the content of other impurity gases is 0.15 percent, and the tar content in the gas is 15mg/Nm 3 The synthesis gas yield of the whole process was 1.95Nm 3 /kg dry deashing biomass.
Comparative example 1
The biomass feedstock of example 1 was fed into a microwave pyrolyzer at a flow rate of 4m in a second working gas (mass ratio of potassium carbonate to water vapor of 0.08:1) 3 Reacting for 10 minutes at 900 ℃ under the action of/h; microwave power density 5 x 10 5 W/m 3 Under the condition, a synthesis gas product is obtained, the concentration of the synthesis gas product is 77.45 percent, the ratio of hydrogen to carbon monoxide is 0.88, the carbon dioxide content is 11.9 percent, the content of other impurity gases is 10.65 percent, and the tar content in the gas is 15mg/Nm 3 The synthesis gas yield of the whole process was 1.95Nm 3 /kg dry deashing biomass.