The membrane separation project of Future Energy Company successfully produced qualified products from the first batch of feedstock used

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The membrane separation project of Future Energy Company successfully produced qualified products on the first attempt. Author/Source: Yankuang Future Energy. Date: 2022-01-12. Clicks: 15. At 11:00 on January 10, 2022, the membrane separation project of Future Energy Company succeeded in producing hydrogen of high quality on the first try; the purity of the hydrogen reached 95.1%, which is higher than the specified standards. The project is located within the synthesis workshop area of Future Energy Company’s demonstration base for the indirect liquefaction of million-tonnes of coal, covering an area of 1,200 square meters, with a total investment of over 56 million yuan. The project commenced construction on July 8, 2021, and started trial operation with feed on January 8, 2022, taking a total of 185 days. The project is reasonably designed by making full use of the existing facilities and utility systems of the low-carbon hydrocarbon recovery unit in the synthesis workshop; it employs a membrane permeation separation process and consists of a pretreatment unit, a membrane separation gas extraction unit, and a permeate gas compression unit. Once in operation, the project can process 100,000 standard cubic meters of feed gas per hour and recover 25,000 standard cubic meters of hydrogen, generating annual benefits of over 11 million yuan. It is understood that, while maintaining the ‘stable, reliable, efficient, and optimal’ operation of the system, Future Energy Company has taken advantage of the surplus capacity in its production system to actively learn from advanced practices in other industries, pursue bold reforms and innovations, deepen research on ways to increase load capacity, implement measures for optimizing existing assets, and formulate technical improvement plans – thereby achieving the goal of increasing the overall load capacity of the coal liquefaction system.