Method and apparatus for separating air by cryogenic distillation

    公开(公告)号:US11435139B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-06

    申请号:US16768067

    申请日:2018-11-08

    发明人: Benoit Davidian

    IPC分类号: F25J3/04

    摘要: The invention relates to a method for separating air by cryogenic distillation in a column system, comprising a first column operating at a first pressure and a second column operating at a second pressure, in which an argon-enriched flow is sent from an intermediate point of the first column to the tank of the second column and an argon-rich flow is drawn off at the top of the second column, wherein a nitrogen-enriched flow of the first column is compressed in a compressor, the compressed flow is sent to a head condenser of the second column after an expansion step and the vaporized flow is expanded in the condenser in a turbine where it at least partially liquefies.

    Method and apparatus for separating a carbon dioxide-rich gas

    公开(公告)号:US10281208B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-07

    申请号:US14413771

    申请日:2013-07-11

    IPC分类号: F25J3/06 F25J5/00 F25J3/02

    摘要: In a purification method, a carbon dioxide-rich gas is cooled in a first brazed aluminum plate-fin heat exchanger, the cooled gas or at least one fluid derived from the cooled gas is sent to a purification step comprising a distillation step, the purification step produces a carbon dioxide-rich liquid which is cooled, then expanded, then sent to a second heat exchanger where it is heated by means of a fluid of the method, the exchanger carrying out an indirect heat exchange only between the carbon dioxide-rich liquid and the fluid of the method, the carbon dioxide-rich liquid at least partially vaporizes in the second exchanger and the vaporized gas formed heats up again in the first exchanger to form a carbon dioxide-rich gas.