@article{10902/24947,
year = {2022},
month = {5},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10902/24947},
abstract = {The recovery of energy and valuable compounds from exhaust gases in the iron and steel industry deserves special attention due to the large power consumption and CO2 emissions of the sector. In this sense, the hydrogen content of coke oven gas (COG) has positioned it as a promising source toward a hydrogen-based economy which could lead to economic and environmental benefits in the iron and steel industry. COG is presently used for heating purposes in coke batteries or furnaces, while in high production rate periods, surplus COG is burnt in flares and discharged into the atmosphere. Thus, the recovery of the valuable compounds of surplus COG, with a special focus on hydrogen, will increase the efficiency in the iron and steel industry compared to the conventional thermal use of COG. Different routes have been explored for the recovery of hydrogen from COG so far: i) separation/purification processes with pressure swing adsorption or membrane technology, ii) conversion routes that provide additional hydrogen from the chemical transformation of the methane contained in COG, and iii) direct use of COG as fuel for internal combustion engines or gas turbines with the aim of power generation. In this study, the strengths and bottlenecks of the main hydrogen recovery routes from COG are reviewed and discussed.},
organization = {The authors are grateful for the funding of the Spanish AEI through the projects RTI2018-093310-B-I00 (MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE) and PID2019-104369RB-I00 and the funding of the European Union through the project “HYLANTIC”-EAPA_204/2016, which is cofinanced by the European Regional Development Fund in the framework of the Interreg Atlantic program. R.O.-I. is grateful for the Concepción Arenal postgraduate research grant from the University of Cantabria.},
publisher = {American Chemical Society},
publisher = {Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 2022, 61(18), 6106-6124},
title = {Hydrogen recovery from coke oven gas. Comparative analysis of technical alternatives},
author = {Moral Real, Gonzalo and Ortiz Imedio, Rafael and Ortiz Sainz de Aja, Alfredo and Gorri Cirella, Daniel and Ortiz Uribe, Inmaculada},
}