« Gas Separation Processes: CAPE-OPEN unit operation for Sweep-based Membrane»

Nancy | 28 October 2021

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PresentationBrief description of the « team »

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People involved in the project

▪ Éric FAVRE

▪ Professor at l’Université de Lorraine (ENSIC) - UL

▪ 180 publications, 15 brevets, more than 70 contrats with industry)

▪ Specialized on gas/liquid separation through membrane module

▪ Christophe CASTEL

▪ Professor at l’Université de Lorraine (ENSIC) - UL

▪ Specialized on gas/liquid separation through membrane module

▪ Roda BOUNACEUR

▪ Research Engineer - CNRS

▪ Expert on numerical developement

▪ Jasper van Baten

▪ CAPE-OPEN development

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HistoricalPrevious developed Unit Operations

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Membrane separation technology offers an attractive solution for bringing environmental sustainability to the chemical industries.

Advantages of membrane technology❑ Simplicity, plug-an-play process with no regeneration steps❑ Energy efficiency, involves no phase change❑ Environmental friendly, no chemical reactions or solvents are used❑ Compactness, based on intensified separation process

Membrane Gas Separation

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Membrane Gas Separation Simulator

▪ MEMSIC

▪ Isothermal

▪ Several transport models (Cross-Flow, Co & Counter current, PSR)

▪ Several transfer models (constant permeability, dual-mode, flory-huggins, …)

▪ Commercialized (http://memsic.tech/)

▪ MEMSIC 2.0

▪ Joule-Thomson effect

▪ Pressure drop estimation

▪ Not commercialized

▪ SWEEP

▪ New tools

▪ Energy mass balance

▪ Co- or Cunter-current flow pattern

▪ The Pressure drop is considered

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SWEEP

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Permeable Polymeric Film

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Qp = .Qin yp P’’

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▪ SWEEP

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SWEEP

▪ Retentate to permeate recycle – Retentate Recycle flow rate

Applications:

➢ Gas drying

➢ Air conditioning

➢ Fuel cell humidification

➢ Membrane energy exchanger

▪ Retentate Sweep

Applications:

➢ Carbon capture with reactive membranes (sweep = humidity)

➢ High temperature reactive membranes (sweep = steam)

➢ Membrane gas contactor (sweep = air)

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Plan

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Plan – Case Studies with live presentations▪ Case 1

➢ Tsuru et al., 1995 – “Permeators and continuous membrane columns with retentate”

➢ Experimental validation of our code

➢ ProsimPlus®

▪ Case 2

➢ Hao et al., 2014 – “Gas/gas membrane contactor – An emerging membrane”

➢ The benifit of a sweep mode flow

➢ Aspen HYSYS®

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➢ Gas drying – a previous study with a company

➢ An industrial case

➢ AspenPlus®

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Case 1Experimental validation of our code

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Rb: Retentate Recycle Ratio

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ProsimPlus®

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Points: experimental data from Tsuru et al. (1995)Lines: simulation from Prosim®

Case 2The benefit of a sweep mode flow

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Interesting when a compound has a high permeability value compared to the other compounds

Faire courbes avec driving force avec et sans sweep !!

𝑪𝑶𝟐 Removal = 𝟏 −𝒙𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒖𝒆.𝑸𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒖𝒆

𝒙𝒊𝒏 .𝑭𝑬𝑬𝑫 𝒄𝒐𝟐

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We keep an important driving force along the entire length of the membrane

Effect of sweep ratioRCO2: from 40 to 90%

Effect of pressure ratioRCO2 : from 80 to 95%

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Aspen HYSYS®

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Case 3An industrial case

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Real membrane from Beko (https://www.beko-technologies.com/)

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AspenPlus®

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Sensitivity Results Curve

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Sweep mode : removal fraction increase with the sweep ratio

Conclusion

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Conclusion

✓ An important advantage of using sweep gas is to generate a driving force for membrane separation without an extra compression machine

✓ Nevertheless, it has the inherent feature of diluting the permeate

✓ Interesting when a compound has a high permeability value compared to the other compounds

✓ The development of numerical tools, such as MEMSIC or SWEEP, as CAPE-OPEN unit operations it’s a real asset for engineers who want to do:

➢ Optimization

➢ Revamping

➢ Process synthesis

➢ …

✓ Future development: equivalent tools for G/L or L/L separation

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Thank you for your attention

Contact: roda.bounaceur@univ-Lorraine.fr

http://memsic.tech/

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