US 12,065,398 B2
Use of renewable energy in methanol synthesis
Joseph William Schroer, Sugar Land, TX (US); Scott Stevenson, Sugar Land, TX (US); Andrew Mark Ward, Redcar (GB); Tim Abbott, Redcar (GB); Kenneth Francis Lawson, Redcar (GB); Michael Edward Huckman, Sugar Land, TX (US); Zhun Zhao, Sugar Land, TX (US); and Arno Oprins, Geleen (NL)
Assigned to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V., Bergen op Zoom (NL)
Appl. No. 17/310,074
Filed by SABIC Global Technologies B.V., Bergen op Zoom (NL)
PCT Filed Jan. 14, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/013524
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 15, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/150247, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 23, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/792,627, filed on Jan. 15, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/792,617, filed on Jan. 15, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/792,637, filed on Jan. 15, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/792,619, filed on Jan. 15, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/792,632, filed on Jan. 15, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/792,631, filed on Jan. 15, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/792,633, filed on Jan. 15, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/792,622, filed on Jan. 15, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/792,635, filed on Jan. 15, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/792,615, filed on Jan. 15, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/792,612, filed on Jan. 15, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/792,636, filed on Jan. 15, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/792,634, filed on Jan. 15, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0119328 A1, Apr. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. C07C 29/152 (2006.01); B01D 53/047 (2006.01); B01D 53/26 (2006.01); B01J 4/00 (2006.01); B01J 6/00 (2006.01); B01J 19/00 (2006.01); B01J 19/24 (2006.01); C01B 3/12 (2006.01); C01B 3/34 (2006.01); C01B 3/48 (2006.01); C01B 3/56 (2006.01); C01C 1/02 (2006.01); C01C 1/04 (2006.01); C07C 4/02 (2006.01); C07C 4/04 (2006.01); C07C 29/132 (2006.01); F25J 3/02 (2006.01); H01M 8/04082 (2016.01); H01M 8/0606 (2016.01); H01M 8/0612 (2016.01); H02J 15/00 (2006.01); H01M 8/1007 (2016.01)
CPC C07C 29/152 (2013.01) [B01D 53/047 (2013.01); B01D 53/265 (2013.01); B01J 4/008 (2013.01); B01J 6/008 (2013.01); B01J 19/0033 (2013.01); B01J 19/0053 (2013.01); B01J 19/2465 (2013.01); C01B 3/12 (2013.01); C01B 3/342 (2013.01); C01B 3/48 (2013.01); C01B 3/56 (2013.01); C01C 1/02 (2013.01); C01C 1/0417 (2013.01); C01C 1/0488 (2013.01); C07C 4/02 (2013.01); C07C 4/04 (2013.01); C07C 29/132 (2013.01); F25J 3/0233 (2013.01); H01M 8/04201 (2013.01); H01M 8/0606 (2013.01); H01M 8/0618 (2013.01); H02J 15/006 (2013.01); H02J 15/008 (2020.01); B01D 2256/16 (2013.01); B01D 2256/245 (2013.01); B01J 2219/00051 (2013.01); B01J 2219/00132 (2013.01); B01J 2219/00761 (2013.01); B01J 2219/0871 (2013.01); C01B 2203/0216 (2013.01); C01B 2203/0233 (2013.01); C01B 2203/0238 (2013.01); C01B 2203/0244 (2013.01); C01B 2203/0261 (2013.01); C01B 2203/0283 (2013.01); C01B 2203/0294 (2013.01); C01B 2203/04 (2013.01); C01B 2203/061 (2013.01); C01B 2203/066 (2013.01); C01B 2203/068 (2013.01); C01B 2203/085 (2013.01); C01B 2203/148 (2013.01); H01M 8/1007 (2016.02)] 54 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A methanol synthesis plant comprising:
a feed pretreating section operable to pretreat a feed stream comprising LPG, naphtha, biogas, methane, ethane, propane, butane, naphtha boiling range components, coal, petcoke, or a combination thereof;
a synthesis gas (syngas) generation section comprising one or more reactors selected from pre-reformers, steam reformers, dry reformers, partial oxidation reactors, autothermal reformers, gasifiers, or a combination thereof and operable to produce a syngas synthesis product stream comprising synthesis gas from the feed stream;
a methanol synthesis section comprising one or more methanol synthesis reactors operable to produce a synthesis product comprising methanol; and
a methanol purification section operable to remove at least one component from the synthesis product to provide a purified methanol product;
wherein methanol synthesis plant consumes greater than or equal to 20 MW of electricity,
wherein an amount of CO2 produced per ton of methanol is less than 0.3 tons CO2 per ton of methanol, and
wherein a net specific energy consumption is less than 34 GJ/ton methanol.