摘要:
Krypton and/or xenon is separated crudely from a mixture (100) comprising oxygen and at least one rare gas selected from the group consisting of krypton and xenon in a process comprising feeding said mixture (100) or a mixture (108) derived therefrom to a rare gas recovery system (16) and separating said mixture feed (108) in said rare gas recovery system (16) into rare gas-lean gaseous oxygen ("GOX") (110) and rare gas-enriched product (120). The process is characterised in that at least about 50 mol % of said mixture (108) is fed to the rare gas recovery system (16) in the gaseous phase and when said mixture feed (104,106) is separated by selective adsorption, the concentration of xenon in the mixture feed is no greater than 50 times the concentration of xenon in air. One advantage of a preferred embodiment of the present invention is that it can easily be retrofitted to existing pumped LOX cycle ASUs.
摘要:
Cette installation de production d'oxygène et/ou d'azote et/ou d'argon par distillation d'air, comprend : N boîtes froides (2A,B) avec N>1 dont chacune comprend d'une part une ligne d'échange thermique (5A,B) pour refroidir l'air à distiller, et d'autre part un appareil de distillation d'air (4A,B) ; et des moyens (3) de traitement de l'air qui alimente les appareils de distillation d'air et des moyens de traitement d'un fluide provenant des appareils de séparation d'air, ces moyens de traitement de l'air ou les moyens de traitement de fluide comprenant plusieurs équipements montés en parallèle et en réseau avec leurs entrées et/ou leurs sorties reliées à un collecteur commun (8,10,14,17,18,22,24,123,125) qui collecte ou redistribue la totalité de l'air ou du fluide de l'étape de traitement correspondante.
摘要:
In order to boost production of a product (A) of an existing separation plant (X,1), an additional plant (Y) is integrated with the original plant so as to enable the original plant (X) to produce more of that product (A+B), whilst the additional plant may or may not necessarily itself produce the same product directly. For example, air is separated in a first unit, which is an existing double column distillation plant, to produce an oxygen rich fluid. So as to increase the production of the oxygen rich fluid, a second unit, which is a wash column (15), is integrated with the first unit. Air (41) is separated in the single nitrogen wash column (15) to remove oxygen and gaseous nitrogen (42) is produced at the top of the column. The wash column is fed with liquid nitrogen (39) from the high pressure column (25) of an existing air separation unit.
摘要:
Die Erfindung betrifft ein Verfahren zur Gewinnung von ultrareinem Stickstoff durch Tieftemperaturzerlegung von Luft in einem Rektifiziersystem mit wenigstens einer Rektifiziersäule, wobei verdichtete und gereinigte Einsatzluft in eine Drucksäule geführt, aus der Drucksäule eine sauerstofffreie Druckstickstofffraktion gewonnen, in eine Niederdrucksäule geführt und in der Niederdrucksäule kohlenmonoxidfreier Niederdruckstickstoff als Kopfgas gewonnen wird. Erfindungsgemäß wird die sauerstofffreie Druckstickstofffraktion (1) entweder aus einem oberen Bereich der Drucksäule flüssig entnommen oder aus einem Flüssigkeitstank (22) mit gespeichertem sauerstofffreiem Stickstoff bereitgestellt und die sauerstofffreie Druckstickstofffraktion (1) in die in ihrem Sumpf beheizte Niederdrucksäule (2) entspannt. Hierbei wird in der Niederdrucksäule (2) aufsteigender Dampf gebildet und mit Hilfe eines am Kopf der Niederdrucksäule (2) aufgegebenen Rücklaufes mit ultrareinem Stickstoff von Kohlenmonoxid befreit, am Kopf der Niederdrucksäule (2) als kohlenmonoxidfreies Kopfgas (5) abgezogen und nach einer Druckerhöhung (5) teilweise verflüssigt. Der verflüssigte Teil (17, 18) wird in eine in ihrem Sumpf beheizte He-Ne-H 2 -Säule (4) entspannt, aus der der ultrareine Stickstoff (19) flüssig entnommen wird.
摘要:
Air is compressed in a compressor 2, pre-purified in an unit 4, and cooled in a heat exchanger 6. The resulting flow of air is subjected to a first rectification in a double rectification column 12 so as to separate the air into an oxygen-rich fraction and a nitrogen-rich fraction. A further oxygen fraction, enriched in argon, is withdrawn from the double rectification column 12 and is introduced into the bottom of a second rectification column 34 in which relatively pure argon is separated from the oxygen. A stream of relatively impure argon is supplied from an independent source to an intermediate region of the second rectification column 34 through an inlet 40.
摘要:
A nitrogen gas supply system which can efficiently supply nitrogen gas to a wafer processing unit 31 for applying a predetermined processing to wafers and to a nitrogen gas tunnel type wafer conveyor 32 for transporting the wafers to the wafer processing unit 31 through a gate valve 37 in sufficient and necessary amounts and with sufficient and necessary purity levels, respectively. This nitrogen gas supply system has a passage 38 for supplying high-purity nitrogen gas obtained in a cryogenic air separation plant 33 serving as a nitrogen gas generator to the wafer processing unit 31, a circulating passage 40 securing communication between outlet 32a and inlet 32b of the conveyor 32 via a purifier 39, and a replenishing passage 44 for replenishing nitrogen gas from a liquid nitrogen tank 36 to the circulating passage 40.
摘要:
The invention discloses process and apparatus for separating high purity oxygen and crude argon from air by fractional distillation. The improvement, which applies to both dual pressure and triple pressure configurations, entails maximizing the distillation efficiency of both the HP rectifier (2) and the LP N2 rectifier (1a and 1b) by feeding precisely correct quantities of liquid air reflux to each via respective valves (6) and (8). In order to efficiently produce the required amount of liquid air, liquid oxygen at least 0.2 ATA above LP column pressure is evaporated by two air condensers: a total condenser (22) and a partial condenser (23).
摘要:
A process and apparatus to economically produce argon in conjunction with an air separation plant designed originally to produce only oxygen wherein an auxiliary argon column is fed with a small stream from the main oxygen plant and is driven by an independent heat pump circuit.