Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a method for preparing methane fuel by using hydrogen storage metal to induce carbonate hydrogenation with high yield and low cost.
The invention is realized by the following two methods:
the method comprises the following steps: under the anaerobic condition, granular hydrogen storage metal calcium, calcium carbonate and steel balls are loaded into a ball milling tank, and then hydrogen is introduced into the ball milling tank to carry out normal temperature reaction, so as to prepare methane.
The second method comprises the following steps: under the anaerobic condition, granular hydrogen storage metal calcium and calcium carbonate are loaded into a heating device, and then hydrogen is introduced into the heating device for heating reaction to prepare methane.
The present invention preferably uses calcium metal with calcium carbonate, which is the highest methane yield compared to other carbonates.
Compared with the prior art, the two methods have the advantages that metal and hydrogen are used as raw materials, metal hydride is generated in the reaction process, the metal hydride can reduce metal carbonate, and the obtained hydrogen and methane mixed gas has no other byproduct gas; compared with in CO2The method is more effective, more convenient and lower in cost; compared with the direct synthesis of methane fuel in carbonate and hydrogenThe invention has the advantages of higher yield, better selectivity and lower cost.
Most of the methods for preparing methane in the prior art are carried out in the presence of a high-temperature catalyst, but the method for preparing methane by using the calcium metal induced carbonate hydrogenation method at room temperature adopts a mechanical ball milling method, the highest yield of the produced methane at room temperature can reach 60%, and the selectivity can reach 100%. The invention also adopts heating condition to prepare methane by calcium metal induced carbonate hydrogenation, the highest yield of the produced methane can reach 91 percent, and the selectivity can reach 100 percent.
Further, in the first method, the hydrogen pressure is selected to be 5-16 bar, and methane is generated only when the hydrogen pressure is 5 bar.
Further, in the first method, the rotation speed of ball milling at room temperature is 450-600 rpm, and the energy for generating methane can be provided only when the rotation speed reaches 450 rpm.
Further, in the second method, the hydrogen pressure is selected to be 2-16 bar, and methane is generated only when the hydrogen pressure is 2 bar during heating.
Further, in the second method, the heating temperature is 400-500 ℃, and 400 ℃ is found to be the threshold temperature.
Furthermore, the two methods need small metal particles in order to increase the contact surface between solid reactions and ensure that the reactions are more complete, and the particle size of the granular metal calcium is 0.01-1 mm.
Further, since the elemental metals and metal carbonates are relatively reactive and oxidation occurs upon direct exposure to air, the above two methods operate in a glove box filled with argon atmosphere and the argon atmosphere is H2O/O2The level was below 0.1 ppm.
In addition, in the two methods, the feeding molar ratio of the metal calcium to the calcium carbonate is 2-4: 1, which is proved by repeated experimental researches: the metallic calcium content directly affects the methane yield, and as the molar ratio of metallic calcium increases, the methane yield increases.
Detailed Description
Example 1
At room temperature, hydrogen storage metal calcium and magnesium are used for inducing calcium carbonate to be hydrogenated to prepare methane, and the method comprises the following steps:
(1) the calcium metal is ground to obtain a granular calcium metal having a particle size of about 0.01 to 1 mm.
(2) In an argon atmosphere (H)2O/O2Level 0.08 ppm) at room temperatureRespectively weighing 450 mg of total mass of alkaline earth metal calcium and magnesium and calcium carbonate according to the molar ratio of 3:1, putting the calcium and magnesium and calcium carbonate into different ball milling tanks, respectively adding 20 ball milling steel balls into the two ball milling tanks, wherein the total mass is 18 g, the diameter of each ball milling steel ball is 3.14 mm, the weight ratio of each ball milling steel ball to a sample is 30:1, and introducing high-purity H2 (16 bar), mechanical ball milling reaction was carried out at 550 rpm for 24 hours, and the obtained gas was qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed by a gas chromatograph and a gas infrared detector.
The gas sample obtained above was detected and the gas chromatograms were compared, and the results are shown in fig. 1 and 2. It should be noted that: "3 Mg-CaCO" in FIG. 13"denotes a reaction system consisting of Mg and CaCO3Composition and Mg with CaCO3The feeding molar ratio of (A) to (B) is 3:1, and the like.
A very obvious peak appears around 10 min, and the peak is detected to be CH4Peak(s). Found at 3000 cm in the gas infrared image-1、1300 cm-1The obvious hydrocarbon stretching vibration peak is nearby, and CH is further proved4Is present.
The methane yield of the implementation method under the condition that the molar ratio of the metal calcium to the calcium carbonate is 3:1 is 35.14%, and the methane yield obtained under the condition that the molar ratio of the magnesium to the calcium carbonate is 3:1 is very low and is not enough to calculate. The comparison shows that the calcium and calcium carbonate system has superior methanation performance compared with the magnesium and calcium carbonate system.
Example 2
At room temperature, alkaline earth metal calcium is used for inducing calcium carbonate to be hydrogenated to prepare methane, and the steps are as follows:
(1) the calcium metal is ground to obtain a granular calcium metal having a particle size of about 0.01 to 1 mm.
(2) In an argon atmosphere (H)2O/O2Level is 0.08 ppm), respectively weighing 450 mg of total mass of alkaline earth metal calcium and calcium carbonate according to the mol ratio of 2: 1, 3:1 and 4: 1 at room temperature, putting the weighed materials into different ball milling tanks, adding 20 ball milling steel balls, wherein the total mass is 18 g, the diameter of each ball milling steel ball is 3.14 mm, the weight ratio of each ball milling steel ball to a sample is 30:1, introducing high-purity H2(16 bar), machine operating at 550 rpm for 24 hoursPerforming mechanical ball milling reaction, and performing qualitative and quantitative analysis on the obtained gas through a gas chromatograph and a gas infrared detector.
The gas sample obtained above was detected and the gas chromatograms were compared, and the results are shown in fig. 3 and 4. A very obvious peak appears around 10 min, and the peak is detected to be CH4Peak(s). Found at 3000 cm in the gas infrared image-1、1300 cm-1The obvious hydrocarbon stretching vibration peak is nearby, and CH is further proved4Is present. It can be seen from the figure that as the molar ratio of metal Ca increases, the methane peak area and the peak intensity in the gas chromatogram increase.
The methane yields of metal calcium and calcium carbonate obtained by the implementation method in the molar ratios of 2: 1, 3:1 and 4: 1 are respectively 26.43%, 35.14% and 37.23%, and it can be seen that the higher the calcium ratio is, the more excellent the methane yield effect is.
Example 3
At room temperature, alkaline earth metal calcium is used for inducing calcium carbonate to be hydrogenated to prepare methane, and the steps are as follows:
(1) the calcium metal is ground to obtain a granular size, and the particle size of the granular calcium metal is about 0.1 mm.
(2) In an argon atmosphere (H)2O/O2Level 0.08 ppm), weighing 450 mg of total mass of metallic calcium and calcium carbonate according to the molar ratio of 3:1 at room temperature, putting the weighed materials into a ball milling tank, adding 20 ball milling steel balls, wherein the total mass is 18 g, the diameter of each ball milling steel ball is 3.14 mm, the weight ratio of each ball milling steel ball to a sample is 30:1, respectively introducing high-purity hydrogen of 5 bar, 10 bar and 16 bar, performing mechanical ball milling reaction for 24 hours at 550 rpm, and performing qualitative and quantitative analysis on the obtained gas through a gas chromatograph and a gas infrared detector.
The gas samples obtained above were detected and the gas chromatograms were compared, and the results are shown in fig. 5 and 6. A very obvious peak appears around 10 min, and the peak is detected to be CH4Peak(s). Found at 3000 cm in the gas infrared image-1、1300 cm-1The obvious hydrocarbon stretching vibration peak is nearby, and CH is further proved4Is present. It can be seen from the figure that hydrogen is associated withThe increase in gas pressure, the methane peak area and the peak intensity in the gas chromatograph increased.
The yields of methane obtained by the method at 5 bar, 10 bar and 16 bar hydrogen pressure were 27.88%, 29.18% and 35.14%, respectively, and it can be seen that the higher the hydrogen pressure, the more excellent the methane yield.
Example 4
At room temperature, alkaline earth metal calcium is used for inducing calcium carbonate to be hydrogenated to prepare methane, and the steps are as follows:
(1) the calcium metal is ground to obtain a granular size, and the particle size of the granular calcium metal is about 0.1 mm.
(2) In an argon atmosphere (H)2O/O2Level 0.08 ppm), weighing 450 mg of total mass of metallic calcium and calcium carbonate according to the molar ratio of 3:1 at room temperature, putting the weighed materials into a ball milling tank, adding 20 ball milling steel balls, wherein the total mass is 18 g, the diameter of each ball milling steel ball is 3.14 mm, the weight ratio of each ball milling steel ball to a sample is 30:1, respectively introducing high-purity hydrogen gas of 16 bar, performing mechanical ball milling reaction for 2, 6, 12, 24 and 48 hours at 550 rpm, and performing qualitative and quantitative analysis on the obtained gas by a gas chromatograph and a gas infrared detector.
The gas samples obtained above were detected and the gas chromatograms were compared, and the results are shown in fig. 7 and 8. In FIG. 7, a very clear peak appeared around 10 min, which was detected as CH4Peak(s). Found at 3000 cm in the gas infrared image-1、1300 cm-1The obvious hydrocarbon stretching vibration peak is nearby, and CH is further proved4Is present. From the graph, it can be seen that the reaction time was 2h, the area of methane peak in the GC-to-gas infrared graph was almost zero, and after the reaction time was 6h, the methane signal became clear, but the yield was low. The methane peak area and peak intensity in the gas chromatograph increased with increasing reaction time.
The methane yield obtained by the method is low at 2h and 6h, and the methane yield is 10%, 35.14% and 45.77% at 12 h, 24 h and 48 h respectively, and the longer the reaction time is, the better the methane yield is.
Example 5
At room temperature, alkaline earth metal calcium is used for inducing calcium carbonate to be hydrogenated to prepare methane, and the steps are as follows:
(1) the calcium metal is ground to obtain a granular size, and the particle size of the granular calcium metal is about 0.1 mm.
(2) In an argon atmosphere (H)2O/O2Level 0.08 ppm), weighing 450 mg of total mass of metal calcium and calcium carbonate according to the molar ratio of 3:1 at room temperature, putting the weighed materials into a ball milling tank, adding 20 ball milling steel balls, wherein the total mass is 18 g, the diameter of each ball milling steel ball is 3.14 mm, the weight ratio of each ball milling steel ball to a sample is 30:1, introducing high-purity hydrogen gas of 16 bar, performing mechanical ball milling reaction for 24 hours at 450 rpm, 550 rpm, 580 rpm and 600 rpm respectively, and performing qualitative and quantitative analysis on the obtained gas through a gas chromatograph and a gas infrared detector.
The gas samples obtained above were detected and the gas chromatograms were compared, and the results are shown in fig. 9 and 10. A very obvious peak appears around 10 min, and the peak is detected to be CH4Peak(s). Found at 3000 cm in the gas infrared image-1、1300 cm-1The obvious hydrocarbon stretching vibration peak is nearby, and CH is further proved4Is present. From the graph, it can be found that the methane peak area and the peak intensity in the gas chromatogram increase with the increase of the hydrogen pressure.
The methane yield obtained by the implementation method under the rotating speeds of 450, 550, 580 and 600 rpm is respectively trace, 35.14, 60.41 and 56.00 percent, and the effect of the methane yield is more excellent when the rotating speed is higher under the same conditions.
Example 6
The method for preparing methane by using alkaline earth metal calcium to induce calcium carbonate to be hydrogenated under the heating condition comprises the following steps:
(1) the calcium metal is ground to obtain granular calcium metal with a particle size of 0.1 mm.
(2) In an argon atmosphere (H)2O/O2Level is 0.08 ppm), the total mass of alkaline earth metal calcium and calcium carbonate is weighed according to the mol ratio of 2: 1, 3:1 and 4: 1 respectively at room temperature, and CaCO is firstly added3Placing into a steel heating pipe, and spreading Ca powder on CaCO3Filling high purityH2(16 bar), heating reaction is carried out for 48 hours at 500 ℃, and qualitative and quantitative analysis is carried out on the obtained gas by a gas chromatograph and a gas infrared detector.
The gas samples obtained above were detected and the gas chromatograms were compared, and the results are shown in fig. 11 and 12. A very obvious peak appears around 10 min, and the peak is detected to be CH4Peak(s). Found at 3000 cm in the gas infrared image-1、1300 cm-1The obvious hydrocarbon stretching vibration peak is nearby, and CH is further proved4Is present. It can be seen from the figure that as the molar ratio of metal Ca increases, the methane peak area and the peak intensity in the gas chromatogram increase.
The methane yields of metal calcium and calcium carbonate obtained by the implementation method in the molar ratios of 2: 1, 3:1 and 4: 1 are respectively 31.4%, 62% and 91.36%, and it can be seen that the higher the metal calcium ratio is, the more excellent the methane yield effect is.
Example 7
The method for preparing methane by using alkaline earth metal calcium to induce calcium carbonate to be hydrogenated under the heating condition comprises the following steps:
(1) the calcium metal is ground to obtain granular calcium metal with a particle size of 0.1 mm.
(2) In an argon atmosphere (H)2O/O2Level is 0.08 ppm), the total mass of the alkaline earth metal calcium and the calcium carbonate is weighed to be 150 mg according to the mol ratio of 4: 1 at room temperature, and CaCO is firstly added3Placing into a steel heating pipe, and spreading Ca powder on CaCO3Filling high-purity H into the upper part2(16 bar), heating reaction is carried out for 48 hours at 350, 450, 480, 500 and 525 ℃, and the obtained gas is subjected to qualitative and quantitative analysis by a gas chromatograph and a gas infrared detector.
The gas samples obtained above were detected and the gas chromatograms were compared, and the results are shown in fig. 13 and 14. A very obvious peak appears around 10 min, and the peak is detected to be CH4Peak(s). Found at 3000 cm in the gas infrared image-1、1300 cm-1The obvious hydrocarbon stretching vibration peak is nearby, and CH is further proved4Is present. FromIt can be seen that the area of the methane peak and the peak intensity in the gas chromatogram increase with increasing heating temperature.
The yields of methane obtained after 48 hours of reaction at 350 ℃, 450 ℃, 480 ℃, 500 ℃ and 525 ℃ in this embodiment were 0%, 29.7%, 33.9%, 91.36% and 87.6%, respectively, and it can be seen that the yield of methane can be improved by appropriately increasing the temperature.
Example 8
The method for preparing methane by using alkali metal and alkaline earth induced metal carbonate hydrogenation under the heating condition comprises the following steps:
(1) the metal is treated to obtain granular calcium with a particle size of 0.1 mm.
(2) In an argon atmosphere (H)2O/O2Level 0.08 ppm), weighing 150 mg of metal and corresponding metal carbonate according to the molar ratio of 4: 1 at room temperature, placing the carbonate into a steel heating pipe, laying the metal above the metal carbonate, and filling high-purity H2(16 bar), heating reaction is carried out for 48 hours at 500 ℃, and the obtained gas is subjected to qualitative and quantitative analysis by a gas chromatograph and a gas infrared detector.
Under otherwise identical conditions, no metal is added, only Li is added2CO3Or CaCO3Putting into steel heating pipe, and charging high purity H2(16 bar), heating reaction is carried out for 48 hours at 500 ℃, and the obtained gas is subjected to qualitative and quantitative analysis by a gas chromatograph and a gas infrared detector.
The gas samples obtained above were detected and the gas chromatograms were compared, and the results are shown in fig. 15 and 16. A very obvious peak appears around 10 min, and the peak is detected to be CH4Peak(s). Found at 3000 cm in the gas infrared image-1、1300 cm-1The obvious hydrocarbon stretching vibration peak is nearby, and CH is further proved4Is present.
Li2CO3、Li-Li2CO3、Na-Na2CO3、Mg-MgCO3、CaCO3And Ca-CaCO3The system is at 500 deg.CThe yield of the methane obtained after 48 hours of reaction is respectively 0%, 50.02%, 13.76%, 12.68%, 29.5% and 91.36%, the addition of the metal effectively improves the methanation performance of the system, and the Ca and CaCO3The system has the highest methane yield, and the second is Li-Li2CO3And (4) preparing the system.
Description of the drawings: the above "Li2CO3"means that no metal is added and the reaction system has only Li2CO3And H2(ii) a The above "Li-Li2CO3"indicates that metallic Li is added and the reaction system contains Li and Li2CO3And H2(ii) a The other is similar.
Example 9
The method for preparing methane by using alkaline earth metal calcium to induce calcium carbonate to be hydrogenated under the heating condition comprises the following steps:
(1) the metal is treated to obtain granular calcium with a particle size of 0.1 mm.
(2) In an argon atmosphere (H)2O/O2Level 0.08 ppm), weighing the metal and the corresponding metal carbonate according to the molar ratio of 4: 1 at room temperature to obtain a total mass of 150 mg, firstly putting the carbonate into a steel heating pipe, then spreading the metal above the metal carbonate, and filling pure H with different pressures2Heating reaction is carried out for 48 hours at 500 ℃, and qualitative and quantitative analysis is carried out on the obtained gas by a gas chromatograph and a gas infrared detector.
The gas samples obtained above were detected and the gas chromatograms were compared, and the results are shown in fig. 17 and 18. A very obvious peak appears around 10 min, and the peak is detected to be CH4Peak(s). Found at 3000 cm in the gas infrared image-1、1300 cm-1The obvious hydrocarbon stretching vibration peak is nearby, and CH is further proved4Is present.
The yields of methane obtained after 48 h reactions at 2 bar, 8 bar, 10 bar, 12 bar, 14 bar and 16 bar of this embodiment were 7.98%, 25.8%, 26.9%, 52.47%, 90.23% and 91.36%, respectively, and it can be seen that increasing the hydrogen pressure appropriately increases the yield of methane.
Example 10
The method for preparing methane by using alkaline earth metal calcium to induce calcium carbonate to be hydrogenated under the heating condition comprises the following steps:
(1) the metal is treated to obtain granular calcium with a particle size of 0.1 mm.
(2) In an argon atmosphere (H)2O/O2Level 0.08 ppm), the metal and the corresponding metal carbonate are weighed according to the molar ratio of 4: 1 at room temperature to obtain the total mass of 150 mg, the carbonate is firstly put into a steel heating pipe, then the metal is flatly laid above the metal carbonate, and 16 bar of pure H is filled2Heating reaction is carried out at 500 ℃ for different time, and qualitative and quantitative analysis is carried out on the obtained gas by a gas chromatograph and a gas infrared detector.
The gas samples obtained above were detected and the gas chromatograms were compared, and the results are shown in fig. 19 and 20. A very obvious peak appears around 10 min, and the peak is detected to be CH4Peak(s). Found at 3000 cm in the gas infrared image-1、1300 cm-1The obvious hydrocarbon stretching vibration peak is nearby, and CH is further proved4Is present.
The methane yields obtained in this example system after 2, 6, 12, 24 and 48 h reactions at 500 ℃ were 0%, 30.16%, 28.6%, 38.37% and 91.36%, respectively, and it can be seen that the methane yield can be improved by appropriately extending the heating time.