文摘
About 15 billion N m3 coke oven gas (COG) is emitted into the air in Shanxi Province in China as air pollutants. It is also a waste of precious chemical resources. In this study, COG was purified respectively by four methods including refrigeration, fiberglass, silica gel, and molecular sieve. Purified COG was separated by a prism membrane into two gas products. One consists mainly of H2 (>90 vol %) and the other is rich in CH4 (>60 vol %) with their exact compositions to vary with the membrane separation pressure and outlet gas flow ratio. The gas rich in CH4 was partially oxidized with oxygen in a high-temperature fixed-bed quartz reactor charged with coke particles of 10 mm size. At 1200–1300 °C, a CH4 conversion of >99% could be obtained. The H2/CO ratio in the synthesis product gas can be adjusted in the range 0.3–1.4, very favorable for further C1 synthesis.