Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for removing nitrogen in gas essentially composed of methane which removes nitrogen in a gas essentially composed of methane, and achieves the efficiency improvement of reliquefaction.SOLUTION: The method for removing nitrogen from gas essentially composed of methane is achieved by implementing: an adsorption stage of preparing three or more adsorption columns filled with adsorbent adsorbing and separating nitrogen and making the adsorbent adsorb nitrogen in a state where pressurizing is performed to prescribed adsorption pressure; a reproduction stage of desorbing nitrogen from the adsorbent in a state where pressure is more reduced than the above adsorption pressure so as to be reproduced; and a pressure recovery stage of reverting the adsorption column in the pressure-reduced state to the adsorption pressure in parallel by the respective adsorption columns. In the meantime, in the respective adsorption columns, the respective stages are implemented by being changed-over in succession. A recovery operation of introducing the gas discharged from the adsorption column in the pressure reduction step upon transfer from the adsorption stage to the reproduction stage, into the adsorption column in the pressure reverting stage, is implemented. In the recovery operation, a first step of recovering the gas of relatively high pressure after the adsorption and a second step of recovering the subsequent relatively low pressure gas thereafter are implemented.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nitrogen generating method capable of substantially reducing power consumption, amount of cold and equipment costs by substantially reducing amount of material air. SOLUTION: The compressed air introduced into a high-pressure tower 11 is cryogenically separated so that liquid air 13 is stored at a bottom portion, nitrogen is taken out from an upper portion in a gas state, the liquid air 13 at the bottom portion of the high-pressure tower 11 is introduced to a low-pressure tower 12, the liquid air 13 introduced into the low-pressure tower 12 is cryogenically separated so that oxygen-enriched liquid air 22 is stored at the bottom portion, nitrogen is taken out from the upper portion as a product gas in a gas state, nitrogen taken out from the upper portion of the high-pressure tower 11 is introduced into a condenser 16 to be liquefied, a part of the liquid nitrogen is refluxed to the high-pressure tower 11, the residual is supplied to the upper portion of the low-pressure tower 12, and the liquid nitrogen or liquid oxygen as cold is introduced into the low-pressure tower from the outside of a system. The liquid air 13 taken out by a taking-out pipe 20 is introduced from a part having the number of theoretical stages within a range of 1-10 stages from a tower bottom portion side in a rectifying portion 12a of the low-pressure tower 12. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT