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Author: | Hashmi, Syed Farhan |
Title: | Methanol production possibilities in kraft pulp mill |
Publication type: | Master's thesis |
Publication year: | 2011 |
Pages: | 120 s. + liitt. 6 Language: eng |
Department/School: | Kemian laitos |
Main subject: | Tehdassuunnittelu (Kem-107) |
Supervisor: | Koskinen, Jukka |
Instructor: | Manninen, Jussi ; Harlin, Ali |
OEVS: | Electronic archive copy is available via Aalto Thesis Database.
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Keywords: | methanol black liquor lignin costing |
Abstract (eng): | The thesis work was done to explore the opportunity of producing methanol from extracted lignin and black liquor without disturbing the energy balance of the pulp mill. Material and energy balance of the main operations of pulp mill were studied. After literature survey processes were developed to convert either black liquor or lignin extracted from black liquor to methanol. Black liquor or lignin were gasified and converted to syngas while pulping chemicals are recycled to the pulp mill. Syngas after H2/CO molar ratio adjustment and cleaning was fed to methanol conversion reactor. Pure methanol was obtained from the distillation column after the removal of impurities. Two simulation software namely Balas and Pro II were used in this thesis work. Balas was used to estimate the generation of steam and electricity from recovery boiler and bark boiler. PRO II was mainly used in simulating the process unit operations. Material and energy balance of methanol production from both routes were calculated from the data generated by PRO II. Investment and product costs were estimated for both the processes. Total investment cost for methanol produced from lignin was estimated to be 40 M based on annual methanol production of 16934 ton and the manufacturing cost of the product methanol obtained by this route was 1064 /ton. Whereas total investment cost for methanol generated by black liquor gasification route was estimated to be 590 M based on annual methanol production of 362880 ton with product methanol cost of 443 /ton. The production cost of methanol from lignin gasification is thrice than market price due to low production capacity and methanol generated by black liquor gasification is 1.5 times more expensive than market price. Black liquor gasification has a problem of material corrosion due to presence of highly corrosive compounds which is not the case with pure lignin gasification. |
ED: | 2012-08-22 |
INSSI record number: 45073
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