公开(公告)号：US06770120B2

公开(公告)日：2004-08-03

申请号：US10135562

申请日：2002-05-01

申请人： Bernard Thomas Neu ,  James Smolarek ,  Mark Thomas Emley

发明人： Bernard Thomas Neu ,  James Smolarek ,  Mark Thomas Emley

IPC分类号： B01D53053

CPC分类号： B01D53/0431 ,  B01D53/047 ,  B01D53/0476 ,  B01D53/053 ,  B01D53/261 ,  B01D2253/102 ,  B01D2253/104 ,  B01D2253/108 ,  B01D2256/12 ,  B01D2256/16 ,  B01D2257/102 ,  B01D2257/504 ,  B01D2257/80 ,  B01D2259/40064 ,  B01D2259/402 ,  Y02C10/08

摘要： An apparatus includes a vessel and a radial adsorption bed within the vessel and either an axial adsorption bed for a storage tank within the inner diameter of the radial adsorption bed. In one example, the radial adsorption bed surrounds an axial adsorption bed. A process that can be conducted in the vessel includes directing a gas mixture across the radial adsorption bed, thereby causing adsorption of at least a portion of a gas component present in the gas mixture and producing partially purified product. The partially purified gas is directed through the axial adsorption bed, thereby causing further purification of the partially purified gas and producing product gas. In another example, the radial adsorption bed surrounds a storage tank. The storage tank can be employed to store a gas generated or used in a separation process conducted in the radial adsorption bed. For instance, the storage tank can be employed to store product gas or void gas generated in a vacuum/pressure swing adsorption process.

摘要翻译： 一种装置包括容器内的容器和径向吸附床，以及在径向吸附床的内径内的储罐的轴向吸附床。 在一个实例中，径向吸附床围绕轴向吸附床。 可以在容器中进行的方法包括将气体混合物引导通过径向吸附床，从而引起气体混合物中存在的至少一部分气体组分的吸附并产生部分纯化的产物。 部分净化的气体被引导通过轴向吸附床，从而进一步纯化部分纯化的气体并产生产物气体。 在另一个实例中，径向吸附床围绕储罐。 储罐可用于储存在径向吸附床中进行的分离过程中产生或使用的气体。 例如，储罐可用于储存在真空/变压吸附过程中产生的产物气体或空气。

公开(公告)号：US06767386B2

公开(公告)日：2004-07-27

申请号：US10064753

申请日：2002-08-14

申请人： Masato Kawai ,  Akihiro Nakamura ,  Masayoshi Hayashida ,  Yoshinori Watanabe ,  Shinichi Marumo

发明人： Masato Kawai ,  Akihiro Nakamura ,  Masayoshi Hayashida ,  Yoshinori Watanabe ,  Shinichi Marumo

IPC分类号： B01D53053

CPC分类号： B01D53/047 ,  B01D53/0473 ,  B01D53/053 ,  B01D2253/108 ,  B01D2253/116 ,  B01D2253/25 ,  B01D2256/10 ,  B01D2257/104 ,  B01D2259/40037 ,  B01D2259/40066 ,  B01D2259/402 ,  Y10S95/903

摘要： CMS adsorbents having suitable indexes are used to improve greatly the performance of nitrogen-producing apparatuses where nitrogen is obtained from the air with a PSA method, so as to improve the efficiency of nitrogen production. A nitrogen PSA apparatus is formed with two adsorbing columns where an adsorption step and a regeneration step are performed alternatively and periodically. The adsorption step is for adsorbing oxygen and conducting nitrogen to a product tank with the supply of compressed air from an air compressor, and the regeneration step for releasing the adsorbed gas after the adsorption step. The adsorbing columns are filled with a carbon molecular sieve (CMS) that selectively adsorbs oxygen as an adsorbent. The CMS adsorbs an oxygen/nitrogen amount of 50% of the saturated adsorption amount with a period TO/TN starting from oxygen/nitrogen supply, wherein TO is 5˜10 seconds and TN is larger than TO by more than 41 times.

摘要翻译： 使用具有适当指标的CMS吸附剂大大提高了利用PSA法从空气中获得氮气的氮气生产设备的性能，从而提高氮气生产效率。 形成有两个吸附塔的氮PSA装置，其中交替地和周期地执行吸附步骤和再生步骤。 吸附步骤是用空气压缩机供给压缩空气吸附氧气并将氮气导入产品罐，以及在吸附步骤后释放吸附气体的再生步骤。 吸附柱填充有选择性吸附氧作为吸附剂的碳分子筛（CMS）。 CMS从氧/氮供应开始以TO / TN周期吸附50％饱和吸附量的氧/氮量，其中TO为5〜10秒，TN大于TO大于41倍。

公开(公告)号：US06712886B2

公开(公告)日：2004-03-30

申请号：US10341787

申请日：2003-01-14

申请人： Oh-Young Kim

发明人： Oh-Young Kim

IPC分类号： B01D53053

CPC分类号： B60H3/0035 ,  B01D53/0446 ,  B01D53/0476 ,  B01D53/053 ,  B01D2253/102 ,  B01D2253/108 ,  B01D2256/12 ,  B01D2259/40005 ,  B01D2259/40009 ,  B01D2259/4566 ,  B60H3/0007 ,  F24F3/16 ,  F24F2003/1657 ,  F24F2003/1692 ,  F24F2110/76

摘要： An air purification device has an oxygen-supplying function, in which air in an automobile is sucked by a vacuum pump and purified by a dust collector or an adsorbent such as activated carbon and zeolite, and oxygen is enriched in air to supply oxygen enriched air into the automobile. The air purification device enriches oxygen in air according to a VSA (vacuum swing adsorption) process using a difference between pressure in the adsorption bed and atmospheric pressure, in which nitrogen adsorbed into the adsorbent is release using the vacuum pump. The air purification device has an air filter for removing impurities from air sucked from an inside of the automobile by the vacuum pump, an adsorbent for adsorbing nitrogen from air passing through the air filter and passing oxygen, and an oxygen tank for storing oxygen supplied from the adsorbent and releasing oxygen using a vacuum.

摘要翻译： 空气净化装置具有供氧功能，其中汽车中的空气被真空泵抽吸并由集尘器或诸如活性炭和沸石的吸附剂净化，并且富含空气中的氧以提供富氧空气 进入汽车。 空气净化装置根据使用吸附床的压力和大气压之间的差异的VSA（真空摆动吸附）方法来丰富空气中的氧气，其中使用真空泵释放吸附剂中的氮气。 空气净化装置具有空气过滤器，用于通过真空泵除去从汽车内部吸入的空气中的杂质，用于从通过空气过滤器的空气吸附氮气并使氧气吸附的吸附剂，以及用于储存氧气的氧气罐 吸附剂和使用真空释放氧气。

公开(公告)号：US06712877B2

公开(公告)日：2004-03-30

申请号：US10228134

申请日：2002-08-27

申请人： Tuan Q. Cao ,  Gary Byrd ,  Lyle Berkenbosch ,  Craig Schledewitz

发明人： Tuan Q. Cao ,  Gary Byrd ,  Lyle Berkenbosch ,  Craig Schledewitz

IPC分类号： B01D53053

CPC分类号： B01D53/047 ,  B01D53/261 ,  B01D2253/102 ,  B01D2253/104 ,  B01D2253/108 ,  B01D2256/12 ,  B01D2257/80 ,  B01D2257/90 ,  B01D2259/40003 ,  B01D2259/40009 ,  B01D2259/402 ,  B01D2259/404

摘要： An oxygen concentrator system includes at least one oxygen concentrator sub-system and a plenum subsystem. The at least one oxygen concentrator sub-system produces oxygen-enriched air which is outputted to both the oxygen concentrator system output and to a plenum chamber within the plenum subsystem. The plenum chamber is trickle charged with the oxygen-enriched air when the at least one oxygen concentrator sub-system produces an excess amount of oxygen-enriched air. Should the demand for oxygen-enriched air exceed the capability of the at least one oxygen concentrator sub-system, additional oxygen-enriched air is provided by the plenum chamber until such time that the capability of the at least one oxygen concentrator sub-system exceeds the demand of oxygen-enriched air. At that time, oxygen-enriched air is no longer provided by the plenum chamber but rather the plenum chamber is again trickle charged.

摘要翻译： 氧浓缩器系统包括至少一个氧气浓缩器子系统和增压器子系统。 至少一个氧气浓缩器子系统产生富氧空气，其输出到氧气浓缩器系统输出和增压室子系统内的增压室。 当至少一个氧气浓缩器子系统产生过量的富氧空气时，增压室被充入富氧空气。 如果对富氧空气的需求超过至少一个氧气浓缩器子系统的能力，则另外的富氧空气由增压室提供，直到至少一个氧气浓缩器子系统的能力超过 富氧空气的需求。 此时，富氧空气不再由通风室提供，而是增压室再次进行充电。

公开(公告)号：US06514319B2

公开(公告)日：2003-02-04

申请号：US09733606

申请日：2000-12-08

申请人： Bowie G. Keefer ,  Christopher McLean

发明人： Bowie G. Keefer ,  Christopher McLean

IPC分类号： B01D53053

CPC分类号： B01D53/0476 ,  B01D53/047 ,  B01D53/053 ,  B01D53/06 ,  B01D2253/108 ,  B01D2256/12 ,  B01D2257/504 ,  B01D2259/40003 ,  B01D2259/40005 ,  B01D2259/40052 ,  B01D2259/40069 ,  B01D2259/40075 ,  B01D2259/4533 ,  B01D2259/4541 ,  C01B13/0259 ,  C01B2210/0046 ,  Y02C10/08 ,  Y02P20/152

摘要： Gas separation by pressure swing adsorption (PSA) and vacuum pressure swing adsorption (VPSA), to obtain a purified product gas of the less strongly adsorbed fraction of the feed gas mixture, is performed with an apparatus having a plurality of adsorbers. The adsorbers cooperate with first and second valves in a rotary PSA module, with the PSA cycle characterized by multiple intermediate pressure levels between the higher and lower pressures of the PSA cycle. Gas flows enter or exit the PSA module at the immediate pressure levels as well as the higher and lower pressure levels, under substantially steady conditions of flow and pressure. The PSA module comprises a rotor containing laminated sheet adsorbers and rotating within a stator, with ported valve faces between the rotor and stator to control the timing of the flows entering or exiting the adsorbers in the rotor.

摘要翻译： 用具有多个吸附器的装置进行通过变压吸附（PSA）和真空变压吸附（VPSA）的气体分离，以获得进料气体混合物的较弱吸附级分的纯化产物气体。 吸附器与旋转PSA模块中的第一和第二阀配合，PSA循环的特征在于PSA循环的较高和较低压力之间的多个中间压力水平。 在基本稳定的流量和压力条件下，气流在直接压力水平以及较高和较低压力水平下进入或离开PSA模块。 PSA模块包括含有层压片吸附器并在定子内旋转的转子，其中转子和定子之间具有带孔的阀面，以控制进入或离开转子中的吸附器的流动时间。

公开(公告)号：US06471744B1

公开(公告)日：2002-10-29

申请号：US09931966

申请日：2001-08-16

申请人： Theodore B. Hill

发明人： Theodore B. Hill

IPC分类号： B01D53053

CPC分类号： B01D53/0476 ,  B01D53/0446 ,  B01D2253/104 ,  B01D2253/106 ,  B01D2253/108 ,  B01D2253/342 ,  B01D2256/10 ,  B01D2256/12 ,  B01D2256/16 ,  B01D2259/40005 ,  B01D2259/402 ,  B01D2259/404 ,  B01D2259/4065 ,  B01D2259/4068 ,  B01D2259/4146 ,  B01D2259/4533

摘要： The present invention involves a vacuum-pressure swing adsorption process for the separation of components of a fluid mixture. The process includes (a) transferring a fluid mixture through an adsorbent bed at an elevated pressure Ph so as to produce a purified product fluid; (b) venting the adsorbent bed down to an ambient fluid pressure Pa; (c) applying a vacuum force to the adsorbent bed to bring the adsorbent bed to a reduced pressure Pl; and (d) venting the adsorbent bed up to an ambient fluid pressure Pa.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及用于分离流体混合物的组分的真空 - 变压吸附方法。 该方法包括（a）在升高的压力Ph下将流体混合物转移通过吸附床，以产生纯化的产物流体; （b）将吸附剂床排出至环境流体压力Pa; （c）向吸附剂床施加真空力以使吸附剂床处于减压P1; 和（d）将吸附床排气至环境流体压力Pa。

公开(公告)号：US06425938B1

公开(公告)日：2002-07-30

申请号：US09703460

申请日：2000-11-01

申请人： Jianguo Xu ,  Mark Robert Pillarella ,  Douglas Paul Dee ,  Rakesh Agrawal

发明人： Jianguo Xu ,  Mark Robert Pillarella ,  Douglas Paul Dee ,  Rakesh Agrawal

IPC分类号： B01D53053

CPC分类号： B01D53/053 ,  B01D2256/12 ,  B01D2259/40015 ,  B01D2259/40032 ,  B01D2259/40045 ,  B01D2259/40052 ,  B01D2259/40064 ,  B01D2259/40069 ,  B01D2259/40081 ,  B01D2259/401

摘要： A single bed pressure swing adsorption process with at least one transfer tank is utilized to separate less adsorbable components from more adsorbable components such as the separation of oxygen from air. Depressurization gas is collected in the transfer tank and is used later exclusively for purging the bed during the regeneration period.

摘要翻译： 使用具有至少一个转移罐的单床变压吸附方法将较难吸附的组分与更吸附的组分分离，例如将氧气与空气分离。 减压气体被收集在转移罐中，并且稍后专门用于在再生期间净化床。

公开(公告)号：US06245127B1

公开(公告)日：2001-06-12

申请号：US09320692

申请日：1999-05-27

申请人： Michael Scott Kane ,  Frederick Wells Leavitt ,  Mark William Ackley ,  Frank Notaro

发明人： Michael Scott Kane ,  Frederick Wells Leavitt ,  Mark William Ackley ,  Frank Notaro

IPC分类号： B01D53053

CPC分类号： B01D53/0476 ,  B01D53/0446 ,  B01D53/053 ,  B01D2253/108 ,  B01D2256/22 ,  B01D2257/102 ,  B01D2257/104 ,  B01D2257/108 ,  B01D2257/504 ,  B01D2257/7022 ,  B01D2259/40007 ,  B01D2259/402 ,  Y02C10/08

摘要： A low pressure swing adsorption process and apparatus for the recovery of carbon dioxide from multi-component gas mixtures, utilizing the simultaneous purge and evacuation of opposite ends of the adsorber(s) to effect controlled depressurization in the adsorber bed(s) to maintain the constant purity of a carbon dioxide-enriched product stream recovered from the adsorber inlet(s).

摘要翻译： 一种用于从多组分气体混合物中回收二氧化碳的低变压吸附方法和装置，利用吸附器的相对端部的同时吹扫和抽空以在吸附床中实现控制的减压以维持 从吸附器入口回收的富含二氧化碳的产物流的恒定纯度。

公开(公告)号：US06171371B2

公开(公告)日：2001-01-09

申请号：US09287625

申请日：1999-04-07

申请人： Nathalie Derive ,  Anne Dubois ,  Christian Monereau

发明人： Nathalie Derive ,  Anne Dubois ,  Christian Monereau

IPC分类号： B01D53053

CPC分类号： B01D53/0476 ,  B01D53/0473 ,  B01D53/053 ,  B01D2256/12 ,  B01D2257/102 ,  B01D2259/40015 ,  B01D2259/4003 ,  B01D2259/40032 ,  B01D2259/40052 ,  B01D2259/40064 ,  B01D2259/40067 ,  B01D2259/40081 ,  B01D2259/402 ,  C01B13/0259 ,  C01B2210/0046 ,  C01B2210/0051 ,  C01B2210/0062 ,  C01B2210/007 ,  Y02P30/30

摘要： The cycle employed is of the transatmospheric type with the use of a production buffer tank (C1), and with a purge/elution phase close to the low pressure in which gas output by another adsorber in the first cocurrent decompression phase is introduced in countercurrent into the adsorber (A, B) and, simultaneously, the countercurrent pumping is continued. During the production step, the oxygen produced is also sent into an auxiliary tank (C2), and the gas contained in this auxiliary tank is, with regard to the adsorber, used solely during a fraction of the pressurization phase of the adsorber.

摘要翻译： 所采用的循环是使用生产缓冲罐（C1）的超大气压型，并且接近低压的吹扫/洗脱阶段，其中由第一并流减压阶段中的另一吸附器输出的气体逆流引入 吸附器（A，B）并且同时进行逆流泵送。 在生产步骤中，所产生的氧气也被送入辅助罐（C2），而在辅助罐中所含的气体就吸附器而言，仅在吸附器的一部分加压阶段中使用。