Decision Point 2 of Statement of Project Objectives (SOPO) “Recovery Act: Development of ITM Oxygen Technology for Integration with Advanced Industrial Systems”
Air Products is carrying out a scope of work under Phase 5 of the ITM Oxygen Cooperative Agreement to design, build, and operate a ceramic membrane fabrication facility (the “CerFab”) to enable production of membrane modules to supply a conceptual 2000 ton per day (TPD) ITM Oxygen facility (the “ITM Oxygen Development Facility”), and to perform supporting development tasks in materials development an engineering development toward industrial, carbon capture and sequestration applications. Air Products is executing this project under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) with the objective to accelerate the adoption of ITM Oxygen technology to help meet the country’s goals for deploying clean power plants. The objective of this Topical Report is to address the requirements of Decision Point 2, which pertains to progress in Materials Development, Engineering Development, and construction of the CerFab, with an emphasis on establishing the environmental permitting required prior to the next Decision Point. In the area of Materials Development, Air Products has specified a high pressure dilatometer system which will enable measurements of material expansion of ITM ceramic compounds at very high oxygen partial pressures consistent with CCS applications. Also in this area, Ceramatec has made significant progress in developing Advanced Architecture wafers and modules by advancing in parallel with two production methods of the Advanced Architecture components and determining the appropriate equipment required to make these components at high volume in the CerFab. Work in this area continues to refine the CerFab requirements. Under Engineering Development, Air Products has developed various concepts around use of ITM in industrial applications to reduce carbon footprint though process integrations that result in less fuel requirement. Air Products also developed notions around hybrid cryogenic air separation plants with ITM Oxygen plants for scale-up test applications. Toward the CerFab, Air Products and Ceramatec have refined the manufacturing process for ceramic membrane modules and developed an equipment layout in the Tooele, Utah, facility that was leased earlier this year. Based on the refined specification, Air Products determined material flows in the CerFab facility, including emissions calculations that form the basis for seeking the various environmental permits required by the project. The permits and permitting schedule is described. Finally, the Project and Staffing statuses are summarized. Based on the considerable progress at this juncture in the program, Air Products recommends proceeding to develop detailed equipment specifications for the CerFab and to continue the development work in the other tasks, such that a complete and comprehensive assessment of project prior to construction of the CerFab can be made at the next Decision Point.
- Research Organization:
- Air Products And Chemicals, Incorporated
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- FC26-98FT40343
- OSTI ID:
- 1255957
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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