摘要:
A process and installation for the separation of air in a cryogenic distillation apparatus (24) comprising a distillation column (30, 42) and in which the supplied air is separated to produce a fraction rich in oxygen and a fraction rich in nitrogen as products. The purities of these products are maintained substantially constant during variations of demand of either product or of the flow rate or of the pressure of the supplied air by introducing an excess of liquid rich in nitrogen into the distillation apparatus when the demand for the product or the flow rate of the supplied air increases, and by withdrawing an excess of liquid rich in nitrogen from the distillation apparatus, and storing this liquid, when the demand for the product or the flow rate of the supplied air decreases. The apparatus comprises a medium pressure column (30) and a low pressure column (42) and a reflux conduit (44; 11, 12) which permits a reflux liquid to be withdrawn from the medium pressure column (30) and to be injected into the low pressure column (42).
摘要:
In this process of the liquid nitrogen/rich liquid HPN swing type, the connection between the head of the column (4) and the liquid nitrogen holding tank (7) is effected, for the two flow directions of the liquid nitrogen, by a single conduit (12) equipped with a pressure reducing device (13). The direction and the flow rate of the liquid nitrogen flow are controlled by the variations of the pressure of the column, and the holding tanks of liquid nitrogen and rich liquid are maintained at constant pressures.
摘要:
Process and installation for transferring a liquid, via a rising conduit (6, 9, 11, 12) provided with an expansion valve (7, 10, 13), from a first distillation column (2), operating at a first pressure, to equipment (3), particularly a second distillation column, operating at a pressure lower than the first pressure. There is injected into the rising conduit, downstream of the expansion valve, a lift gas available at a pressure greater than the pressure created by a column of liquid between the point of injection of the gas and the point of introduction of the liquid into the equipment (3). The lift gas is available at the pressure of the first distillation column (2) and is injected into the liquid in the rising column above the point of withdrawal of this liquid. There is used as lift gas a gas withdrawn from a point in the first column (2) and so chosen as not to modify substantially the composition of the transferred liquid, or a portion of the air feed to the installation can be used for this purpose.
摘要:
In a method and an apparatus for avoiding or reducing trouble-induced time delays in solvent recovery from production processes, apart from the solvent circuit and apart from the supplying of the locks with carrier gas, when necessary via at least one separate supply conduit a metered amount of pure carrier gas is supplied to the production plant and at the same time via at least one separate discharge conduit a substantially corresponding amount of mixture of carrier gas and solvent is withdrawn.
摘要:
As soon as the apparatus is started, a flow of liquid nitrogen which is at least equal to the nominal flow of gaseous nitrogen is introduced in the head portion of the column, then the flow of liquid nitrogen is adjusted to a small fraction of this nominal flow. Application to the production of a flow of gaseous nitrogen which is variable and moderate.
摘要:
Gaseous oxygen to be cooled passes through an exchanger which is cooled with compressed liquid nitrogen, at least a portion of the vaporized nitrogen which is warmed up in the exchanger being treated in a turbine and thereafter reintroduced into the exchanger. Application for example to the storage in liquid form of excess oxygen under pressure conveyed by a distribution network with variable load.
摘要:
The present invention is a process for the production of 99.999+% pure oxygen. The process comprises a cryogenic distillation system which removes impurities from oxygen. The process can be operated independently of an air separation unit by using an external source to provide reboil and condensing duties for the distillation column.
摘要:
A producing apparatus of highly pure nitrogen gas which is used in electronic industry for manufacturing silicon semiconductors.Conventional nitrogen gas producing apparatus of low temperature separation method and of PSA method are subjected to troubles frequently, the cost of the obtained product nitrogen gas is high, yet the purity is not very high.By the apparatus of this invention, the liquefied nitrogen storage means (15) is connected to the heat exchangers (13, 14) through the inlet channel (16), the compressed air reaching the heat exchangers (13, 14) through the air compressor (9) and the impurity removing means (12) is cooled down to ultra low temperature by using the evaporation heat of the liquefied nitrogen then is sent into the rectifying column (15), and the nitrogen is taken out in gas form by utilizing the difference in the boiling point and oxygen is left in liquid form.The obtained nitrogen gas is combined with the gassified liquid nitrogen from the liquefied nitrogen storage means (15) and made into product nitrogen gas.Highly pure nitrogen, therefore, can be produced at a low cost and with almost no trouble of the apparatus.
摘要:
A plant for producing gaseous oxygen which plant comprises a heat exchanger (6) for cooling feed air, a double distillation column (7) having a high pressure column (8) for receiving at least part of said feed air, and a low pressure column (15), a liquid oxygen storage vessel (19) communicating with said low pressure column (15) and a liquid storage vessel (37) communicating with said high pressure column (8), characterized in that said plant further comprises an expander (27) arranged to expand vapor from said high pressure column (8) and pass the expanded vapor through said heat exchanger (6) and further characterized in that said plant comprises means to control the flow of vapor through said expander (27).
摘要:
In a process for decontaminating a nuclear process off-gas stream, oxygen and oxides of nitrogen are removed by catalytic reaction with hydrogen. The feed gas stream is then passed serially through a drier, a carbon dioxide adsorber and a xenon adsorber to sequentially remove water, CO.sub.2 and xenon therefrom. The feed gas exiting the xenon adsorber is passed to a krypton recovery process wherein krypton is concentrated to a first level in a primary distillation column, partially evaporated to increase concentration thereof and is brought to a concentration of approximately 90 mol % or greater in a second distillation column thereby enabling efficient storage of a radioactive krypton product. The xenon gas removed from the main feed stream in the xenon adsorber is passed to a freezeout heat exchange device to concentrate xenon to approximately 99% or greater, balance krypton. The minor fraction of krypton may then be removed from such xenon-rich product in a distillation tower with the xenon product being stored in gas cylinders or the like.