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http://dx.doi.org/10.7316/KHNES.2020.31.1.33

Simulation Study on the Application of LNG Cold Energy for Hydrogen Liquefaction Process  

HAN, DANBEE (Department of Environment and Energy Engineering, The University of Suwon)
BYUN, HYUNSEUNG (Department of Environment and Energy Engineering, The University of Suwon)
BAEK, YOUNGSOON (Department of Environment and Energy Engineering, The University of Suwon)
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Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society / v.31, no.1, 2020 , pp. 33-40 More about this Journal
Abstract
As hydrogen utilization becomes more active recently, a large amount of hydrogen should be supplied safely. Among the three supply methods, liquefied hydrogen, which is an optimal method of storage and transportation convenience and high safety, has a low temperature of -253℃, which is complicated by the liquefaction process and consumes a lot of electricity, resulting in high operating costs. In order to reduce the electrical energy required for liquefaction and to raise the efficiency, hydrogen is cooled by using a mixed refrigerant in a precooling step. The electricity required for the precooling process of the mixed refrigerant can be reduced by using the cold energy of LNG. Actually, LNG cold energy is used in refrigeration warehouse and air liquefaction separation process, and a lot of power reduction is achieved. The purpose of this study is to replace the electric power by using LNG cold energy instead of the electric air-cooler to lower the temperature of the hydrogen and refrigerant that are increased due to the compression in the hydrogen liquefaction process. The required energy was obtained by simulating mixed refrigerant (MR) hydrogen liquefaction system with LNG cold heat and electric system. In addition, the power replacement rate of the electric process were obtained with the pressure, the temperature of LNG, the rate of latent heat utilization, and the hydrogen liquefaction capacity, Therefore, optimization of the hydrogen liquefaction system using LNG cold energy was carried out.
Keywords
LNG; Cold energy; Hydrogen; Hydrogen liquefaction; Process simulation;
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