摘要:
An apparatus for separating air by cryogenic distillation comprises N air compressors (C1, C2, C3), which are connected so that they receive air at ambient pressure and which are designed to produce air at a first pressure higher than 12 bar abs, N being at least equal to 3, each of the compressors being driven by a single asynchronous motor (M1, M2, M3), the total power of the compressors being at least equal to 10 MW.
摘要:
The method and the device are used for the cryogenic decomposition of air in a distillation column system for separating nitrogen and oxygen, said system having a first high-pressure column (23), a low-pressure column (25, 26), and three condenser-evaporators, namely a high-pressure column head condenser (27), a low-pressure column bottom evaporator (28), and an auxiliary condenser (29; 228). A first feed air stream is cooled in a main heat exchanger (20, 21). The cooled first feed air stream (22) is introduced into the first high-pressure column (23) under a first pressure. Gaseous head nitrogen (44, 45) from the first high-pressure column (23) is condensed in the high-pressure column head condenser (27). At least one part (47) of the head nitrogen (46) which is condensed in the high-pressure column head condenser (27) is delivered to the first high-pressure column (23) as reflux liquid. A part of the bottom liquid (66) of the low-pressure column (25, 26) is evaporated in the low-pressure column bottom evaporator (28) in indirect heat exchange with a condensing heating fluid (58). A non-evaporated part (67) of the bottom liquid (66) of the low-pressure column (25, 26) is at least partially evaporated in the auxiliary condenser (29; 228). At least one part of the liquid (68) evaporated in the auxiliary condenser (29; 228) is obtained as a gaseous oxygen product (69). The distillation column system for separating nitrogen and oxygen additionally has a second high-pressure column (24). A second feed air stream (35) is cooled in the main heat exchanger (20, 21) and subsequently introduced into the second high-pressure column (24) under a second pressure which is higher than the first pressure. At least one part of the head gas (58) of the second high-pressure column (24) is used as heating fluid in the low-pressure column bottom evaporator (28).
摘要:
In an air-distillation method, purified air is cooled in an exchange line (8) and then sent to a distillation column (12) of a system of columns, and oxygen- and nitrogen-rich fluids are extracted from a column (14) of the system of columns only during the repressurization phase. A purified airflow, constituting between 3% and 20% of the air compressed in the compressor, is used to at least partially pressurize the adsorber completing the regeneration phase thereof, and the airflow compressed in the compressor during the adsorption phase is substantially equal to the airflow compressed in the compressor during the pressurization of the adsorber. A portion of the purified air is sent to a turbine (27) where it is decompressed and then sent into the atmosphere so as to ensure that it is kept at least partially cold during the entire cycle, and the amount of decompressed airflow sent into the air during the pressurization of an adsorber is less than the amount sent into the air during the adsorption phase of the same adsorber.
摘要:
In a process for separating air by cryogenic distillation, an oxygen-rich stream having a first oxygen purity of less than 98 mol% oxygen is withdrawn from the column system (13, 15) and sent to a customer, an oxygen-rich liquid stream having a second oxygen purity, possibly lower than 98 mol% oxygen, is sent to a storage tank (31), liquid is periodically withdrawn from the storage tank and sent to a back-up reboiler, to produce a back-up product, and a liquid stream (21, 51) having a third oxygen purity, lower than the first purity, is withdrawn from the bottom of at least one column of the column system and/or from the auxiliary reboiler and sent to the storage tank as a purge stream during a stoppage in the operation of the column system.