摘要:
The present invention is a cryogenic process for the production of nitrogen by distilling air in a double column distillation system comprising a high pressure column and a low pressure column. The critical step of the invention is the condensation of a nitrogen stream in the top most reboiler/condenser located in the stripping section of the low pressure column to provide column reboil and the total condensation of a portion of the compressed feed air in the bottom most reboiler/condenser located in the bottom of the low pressure column.
摘要:
The present invention is an improvement to a two distillation column, cryogenic air separation process which produces nitrogen-rich and oxygen-rich products. The improvement to the process is condensing at least a portion of the nitrogen overhead from the high pressure column in a reboiler/condenser against a crude liquid oxygen stream and in an intermediate reboiler/condenser located in the low pressure column against internal low pressure column streams. The condensed nitrogen overhead is fed either to the low pressure or high pressure columns as reflux. The vaporized portion of the crude liquid oxygen stream is work expanded to provide some or all of the refrigeration required for the process.
摘要:
The present invention is a cryogenic process to produce medium to high pressure gaseous nitrogen without the use of a nitrogen product compressor. The process is an improvement to a conventional nitrogen generator with waste expander. The present invention reboils crude liquid oxygen from the main distillation column in two stages at different pressures and uses a small number of trays above one of the reboilers. The use of the trays above one of the reboilers allows collection of a pressurized stream with a composition similar to air. This pressurized stream is recycled to an intermediate stage of the main air compressor.
摘要:
Process and apparatus to produce argon at high recovery with nitrogen at higher than conventional pressure comprising three columns wherein first column bottoms are passed into the second column, second column bottoms drive a third column top condenser, and argon-containing fluid is passed for separation into the third column from the second column at a point intermediate the points where first column bottoms enter and second column bottoms exit the second column.
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 of FIG. 1) and the LP N.sub.2 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 for the production of ultrahigh purity oxygen and elevated pressure nitrogen by the cryogenic rectification of air wherein the product oxygen is recovered from a secondary column at a point above the liquid sump while impurities are removed from the column at a distance from the product withdrawal point.
摘要:
A method and equipment are disclosed herein which liquefy and separate air through the use of a multiple rectifying tower system comprising a high pressure tower and a low pressure tower. The rectifying regions of the high pressure tower and the low pressure tower are divided into an equal number (at least two) of segments and gases at the tops of the respective segments of the high pressure tower are permitted to exchange heat with circulating liquids or liquid oxygen at the bottoms of the respective segments of the low pressure tower and to evaporate the circulating liquids or the liquid oxygen. The gases are then condensed to provide a circulating liquid for the low pressure tower.
摘要:
This process provides an efficient means for distillative separation of a gas mixture at a temperature below ambient without requiring either a dual pressure or low pressure distillation column. The process comprises supplying the gas at an elevated pressure to a single pressure distillation column, work-expanding the column overhead gas to drive a heat pump compressor, compressing any of several gases in the heat pump compressor so as to effect phase change heat transfer between condensing column reflux and boiling column bottom product, and separately withdrawing the depressurized gaseous separation products.
摘要:
A plant for the production of low purity oxygen, in which a low pressure stream of incoming air is cooled against outgoing gas streams and fed into a high pressure fractionating column, and a high pressure stream of incoming air is cooled against outgoing gas streams, partially condensed against boiling liquid oxygen product in a product vaporizer, and separated into gas and liquid streams, the liquid stream being sub-cooled and expanded into a low pressure fractionating column while a major part of the gas stream is re-heated and expanded to provide plant refrigeration. Crude liquid oxygen from the bottom of the high pressure column is cooled against waste outgoing nitrogen from the low pressure column and then admitted to the low pressure column after first being used to liquefy some of the nitrogen from the high pressure column in an external reboiler/condenser. Liquid oxygen product from the low pressure column is pumped to a higher pressure before being passed through the sub-cooler and the product vaporizer. The remainder of the high pressure column nitrogen is liquefied in a second external reboiler/condenser by the separated high pressure liquid feed on its way to the low pressure column. The liquefied high pressure column nitrogen is used as reflux for the two columns, that for the low pressure column being cooled against outgoing waste nitrogen. The expander exhaust is likewise cooled against outgoing waste nitrogen before admission to the low pressure column.