摘要:
A process for recovering at least one fluid (e.g. argon gas and/or nitrogen gas, etc.) from a feed gas (e.g. air) can provide an improved recovery of argon and/or nitrogen as well as an improvement in operational efficiency. Some embodiments can be adapted so that at least a portion of a mixed nitrogen-oxygen fluid is at least partially vaporized and fed to a low pressure column.
摘要:
In a method for separating air by cryogenic distillation using a column system consisting of a higher pressure column operating at a first pressure and a lower pressure column operating at a second pressure, a first air flow constituting between 75% and 98% of the air sent to the column system compressed to a third pressure above the first pressure, is sent to the higher pressure column, a second air flow constituting between 5% and 25% of the air sent to the column system is compressed to a fourth pressure above the second pressure but lower than the third pressure, is sent to the lower pressure column, a third column separates an argon-enriched flow and the air sent to the lower pressure column constitutes between 10% and 25% of the total air sent to the column system.
摘要:
A method for separating air is provided, in which a flow of oxygen-rich liquid is sent to a top of a pure oxygen column, having a pure oxygen reboiler, in which said flow is purified in order to form a vessel liquid containing at least 98 mol % of oxygen and the vessel liquid is drawn off as a product. A supercharged airflow at a second pressure is sent to the pure oxygen reboiler and to a liquid oxygen vaporizer; a nitrogen-rich gas is drawn from the top of the medium-pressure column and sent to an intermediate reboiler of the low-pressure column and the condensed gas is sent to the top of the medium-pressure column; and a nitrogen-rich gas or air is sent to a vessel reboiler of the low-pressure column and the liquid that condenses therein is sent to the medium-pressure column.
摘要:
A method and apparatus of producing high purity oxygen in connection with low purity liquid oxygen produced by a plurality of cryogenic air separation plants. The low purity liquid oxygen from the air separation plants is introduced into a distillation column of an auxiliary cryogenic rectification plant that is reboiled by nitrogen also produced by the air separation plants. Nitrogen is separated from the low purity liquid oxygen to produce high purity liquid oxygen from residual liquid located in a bottom region of the distillation column that can be taken as a product. Optionally, an argon column can be connected to the distillation column to produce a liquid argon product stream.
摘要:
The process is used for the recovery of krypton and/or xenon by low-temperature separation of air. Compressed and purified feed air (1, 1A, 1B, 29) is introduced into a rectification system for nitrogen-oxygen separation, which has a high-pressure column (2) and a low-pressure column (3). An oxygen-rich liquid (42) is removed at a first point from the low-pressure column (3). At least a first portion (43) of the oxygen-rich liquid (42) is re-introduced in the low-pressure column at a second point, whereby a mass exchange section (44) is arranged between the first and second points on the low-pressure column. An additional liquid (35) is drawn off from a third point of the low-pressure column (3), which is arranged at the level of the second point or below it, said liquid introduced into the evaporation chamber of a first condenser-evaporator (4) and partially evaporated there. A krypton- and xenon-containing fraction (138) is drawn off from the evaporation chamber of a first condenser-evaporator and introduced into the evaporation chamber of a second condenser-evaporator (27). A krypton-xenon concentrate (125) is drawn off from the second condenser-evaporator (27).
摘要:
Oxygen-containing gas comprising no more than about 50 mol % oxygen is fed (150) to an auxiliary separation column (40) in a multiple column cryogenic air distillation system comprising at least a higher pressure (“HP”) column (10) and a lower pressure (“LP”) column (30) for separation into nitrogen-rich overhead vapor and oxygen-rich liquid. Oxygen-rich liquid is fed (154) from the auxiliary column (40) to an intermediate location in the LP column (30). The auxiliary column (40) is refluxed with a liquid stream from or derived from the HP column (10). One advantage of the invention is that the diameter of the upper sections (II, III) of the LP column (30) need no longer be larger than the diameter of the rest of the column system thereby increasing the capacity of the column system (under the constraint of a defined maximum column section diameter).
摘要:
A cryogenic rectification system comprising three columns wherein high purity oxygen is produced in the third column which is fed from at least one of the first and second columns, which do not share a common condenser/reboiler, and reboiled using feed air or first column top vapor.
摘要:
The process and the apparatus serve for producing pressurized oxygen and krypton/xenon by low-temperature fractionation of air. The rectifying system has a low-pressure column (3) for the nitrogen-oxygen separation and a krypton-xenon enrichment column (15). Compressed and prepurified feed air (4) is introduced into the rectifying system. A first oxygen fraction (11) is taken off from the low-pressure column (3), brought (12) to an elevated pressure in the liquid state, vaporized and removed as gaseous pressurized oxygen product (24). In addition, a second oxygen fraction (16) is taken off from the low-pressure column (3) and passed (18) into the lower or central region of the krypton-xenon enrichment column (15). The first oxygen fraction (11) is taken off at least one actual or theoretical plate above the bottom of the low-pressure column (3) and, after the pressure elevation (12) is introduced (14) in the liquid state into the upper region of the krypton-xenon enrichment column (15). A krypton-enriched and/or xenon-enriched fraction (19) is taken off from the lower region of the krypton-xenon enrichment column (15). The pressurized oxygen product (24) is withdrawn in the gaseous state from the upper region of the krypton-xenon enrichment column (15).
摘要:
A system for the production of ultra-high purity nitrogen and ultra-high purity oxygen at high recovery by the cryogenic rectification of feed air employing a main column, an auxiliary column and a stripping column, wherein the stripping column is driven by main column kettle fluid and additional process fluid generated in the auxiliary column is utilized in the main column.
摘要:
An improved efficiency system for producing low purity oxygen by rectification of air employs a high pressure column and a low pressure column and includes the steps of: turboexpanding a flow of nitrogen-rich gas from the high pressure column to provide a cooled nitrogen-rich gas flow; condensing the cooled nitrogen-rich gas flow to a nitrogen-rich liquid against a flow of a vaporizing oxygen-rich liquid flow taken from the low pressure column; passing the nitrogen-rich liquid as a reflux flow to the low pressure column; returning the vaporizing oxygen liquid to the low pressure column; and employing energy derived from the turboexpanding step to compress feed air.