摘要:
There is provided a method of generating nitrogen which includes cryogenically separating compressed air introduced into a high-pressure column 11, storing liquid air 13 in a bottom portion of the high-pressure column 11 and taking nitrogen in gaseous form from an upper portion of the high-pressure column 11, introducing the liquid air 13 stored in the bottom portion of the high-pressure column 11 into a low-pressure column 12, cryogenically separating the liquid air 13 introduced into the low-pressure column 12, storing oxygen-enriched liquid air 22 in a bottom portion of the low-pressure column 12 and taking nitrogen in gaseous form from an upper portion of the low-pressure column 12 as a product gas, introducing the nitrogen taken from the upper portion of the high-pressure column 11 into a condenser 16 to liquefy the nitrogen, refluxing part of the liquid nitrogen to the high-pressure column 11, feeding the remainder of the liquid nitrogen to the upper portion of the low-pressure column 12, and introducing liquid nitrogen or liquid oxygen from outside a system into the low-pressure column as a coolant, wherein the liquid air 13 taken through an extraction pipe 20 is introduced into a portion of a rectification part 12a of the low-pressure column 12 in which the number of theoretical plates from a column bottom side is set within the range of one to ten. This method significantly reduces the amount of raw material air to accomplish significant reductions in power consumption, the amount of coolant and costs of facilities.
摘要:
A low temperature air separation process for producing pressurized gaseous product in an air separation unit using a system of distillation columns comprises cooling a compressed air stream to a heat exchange line (30) to form a compressed cooled air stream (3), sending at least part of the compressed, cooled air stream to a column (10) of the system, liquefying a process stream to form a first liquid product, storing at least part of the first liquid product in a storage tank (50), sending at least part (60) of the above first liquid product from the storage tank to the air separation unit as one of the feeds, extracting at least one second liquid product stream (6) from a column (11) of the column system and pressurizing the at least one second liquid product stream, vaporizing the above pressurized second liquid product stream to form pressurized gaseous product in the heat exchange line and extracting a cold gas (40) without warming it completely in the heat exchange line.
摘要:
A low temperature air separation process for producing pressurized gaseous product in an air separation unit using a system of distillation columns comprises cooling a compressed air stream to a heat exchange line (30) to form a compressed cooled air stream (3), sending at least part of the compressed, cooled air stream to a column (10) of the system, liquefying a process stream to form a first liquid product, storing at least part of the first liquid product in a storage tank (50), sending at least part (60) of the above first liquid product from the storage tank to the air separation unit as one of the feeds, extracting at least one second liquid product stream (6) from a column (11) of the column system and pressurizing the at least one second liquid product stream, vaporizing the above pressurized second liquid product stream to form pressurized gaseous product in the heat exchange line and extracting a cold gas (40) without warming it completely in the heat exchange line.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method for providing hydrogen using a gaseous-nitrogen production apparatus (9) by air separation and vaporisation of liquid nitrogen from a feedstock (1), wherein if the needs of a client for gaseous nitrogen are lower than a first threshold, the client is supplied with nitrogen (19), exclusively by vaporisation (5) of liquid nitrogen, and if the needs of a client for gaseous nitrogen are higher than a second threshold, the second threshold being higher than the first threshold, the client is supplied with nitrogen (11) at least partially by the nitrogen production apparatus (9).
摘要:
An air distillation unit comprises an air distillation column (10) suitable for producing a nominal flow of gaseous nitrogen, the top of said column being connected to a liquid nitrogen source (8), and operates by carrying out the following steps: a flow of compressed, cooled and purified air is sent to an exchanger (11) and then to the column, a flow of gaseous nitrogen is withdrawn from the column, the level of liquid at the bottom of the column is controlled; and injection liquid (20), sent from the source to the column, is no longer sent if the required production reduces to at most the nominal production. Application to the separation of air by cryogenic distillation.
摘要:
The invention relates to an installation for the low-temperature separation of air, comprising at least one rectifying column which is disposed in an insulating chamber (23). In order to simplify the attachment of the rectifying column (15) in the insulating chamber (23), said rectifying column (23) is stayed in the insulating chamber by means of rope shaped members (25, 26, 40, 41) in such a way that it is disposed in a predetermined position.
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:
This process for nitrogen liquefaction by recovering the cold derived from liquid methane gasification has the characteristic of cooling with the liquid methane (1) a cryogenic fluid (5), preferably nitrogen, and then using said cryogenic fluid as coolant fluid (9,10) in two nitrogen compressor units of the nitrogen liquefier, both for the interstage coolers (11,12,13,27,28,29,30,31,32) and for the intake coolers (27) and for the final delivery coolers (19,32) of one of the nitrogen compressor unit. The use of nitrogen cooled by the methane enables liquid nitrogen to be produced (3) in a liquefier consisting of the two said compressor units and a cryogenic turbine (17), with a very low specific energy consumption.
摘要:
A single column (109) is used to produce nitrogen (117) by separating a cleaned, compressed air feed (100). A rectifying dephlegmator (111) is used to purify nitrogen (116) from the top of the column. Oxygen rich liquid (110) from the bottom of the column is stripped in a stripping dephlegmator (112). Stripped gaz (115) from the stripping dephlegmator is recycled to the air feed (110). Liquid from the stripping dephlegmator is waste gaz (143). Rectifying dephlegmator (111) and stripping dephlegmator (112) are in thermal connection.