摘要:
A process and air separation plant for producing one or more air products by cryogenic separation of air in an air separation plant wherein a first fraction and a second fraction of feed air quantity are post-compressed in a post-compressor from a first pressure level to a second pressure level at least 3 bar above the first pressure level, and are extracted from a post-compressor jointly at the second pressure level, impure nitrogen, the nitrogen content of which lies below an overhead product of a high-pressure column, is extracted from the high-pressure column at the first pressure level and is expanded using a second turboexpander which is mechanically coupled to a first booster, and a fluid enriched with argon is extracted from a low-pressure column, is depleted of argon and is recycled into the low-pressure column.
摘要:
The plant is used for producing oxygen by cryogenic air separation. The plant has a high-pressure column, a low-pressure column and a main condenser. An argon-elimination column is in fluid connection with an intermediate point of the low-pressure column and is connected to an argon-elimination column head condenser. An auxiliary column has a sump region, into which gas is introduced from the argon-elimination column head condenser. The head of the auxiliary column is connected to a return flow liquid line, in order to introduce a liquid stream from the high-pressure column or the head condenser. The liquid stream has an oxygen content which is at least equal to that of air. At least one part of the crude liquid oxygen from the sump of the high-pressure column is fed to the auxiliary column at a first intermediate point.
摘要:
A request to initiate startup of an air separation plant may be received, and, in response to receiving the request, startup information that identifies a sequence of steps to be automatically executed to start up the air separation plant is retrieved. Each step may be associated with a component of the air separation plant, and may be associated with an action and a set of permissives corresponding to the action. The set of permissives for each action may specify one or more parameters for controlling the execution of the corresponding action. After retrieving the startup information, the system may automatically initiate execution of the sequence of steps, and may monitor the execution of each of the steps. The system may determine, based on the monitoring, whether to modify a parameter specified by one of the permissives corresponding to an executed action.
摘要:
A method and a device used to variably obtain a compressed-gas product by means of the low-temperature separation of air in a distillation column system. In a first operating mode, a first amount of first compressed-gas product is obtained, and, in a second operating mode, a second, smaller amount is obtained. In the first operating mode, a first amount of high-pressure column nitrogen is compressed in a nitrogen compressor and in the second operating mode, a second, larger amount is compressed in the nitrogen compressor.
摘要:
In a process for delivering pressurized gas from an apparatus for separating air by cryogenic distillation, a stream of oxygen-rich liquid or gas having a nominal flow rate is withdrawn from a low-pressure column, an oxygen-rich liquid purge stream is withdrawn as bottoms from the low-pressure column and the oxygen-rich liquid purge stream is sent to a storage tank, in the event of a reduction in the production by the column system or an increase in the demand by a customer, a back-up stream is withdrawn from the storage tank and vaporized in a back-up reboiler and only if the liquid level in the storage tank exceeds a given threshold, a liquid stream is withdrawn from the storage tank constituting at most 2% of the nominal production output of the oxygen-rich stream and is sent to the back-up reboiler.
摘要:
A method and apparatus serve for the cryogenic separation of air in an air separation plant which has a main air compressor, a main heat exchanger and a distillation column system with a high-pressure column and a low-pressure column. All of the feed air is compressed in the main air compressor to a first air pressure which is at least 3 bar higher than the operating pressure of the high-pressure column. A first part of the compressed total air flow, as first air flow at the first air pressure, is cooled and liquefied or pseudo-liquefied in the main heat exchanger, then expanded and introduced into the distillation column system. A second part of the compressed total air flow, as second air flow, is post-compressed in a turbine-driven post-compressor to a second air pressure.
摘要:
The method and the apparatus described are used for generating electrical energy in a combined system comprising a power plant and a low-temperature air separation unit. A feed air stream is compressed in a main air compressor, cooled, and introduced into a distillation column system having a high-pressure column and a low-pressure column. A first oxygen-enriched stream from the distillation column system is introduced into the power plant. In a first operating mode, cryogenic liquid from the distillation column system is introduced into a liquid tank and is stored there at least in part. In a second operating mode, stored cryogenic liquid is removed from the liquid tank and introduced into the distillation column system. A second process fluid from the distillation column system is heated and then actively depressurized in a hot expansion turbine. In addition, in the second operating mode, a nitrogen-enriched product stream from the high-pressure column is also heated to a high temperature and then depressurized in the hot expansion turbine.
摘要:
The method of adding heat to refrigerated rich liquid that accumulates in a reservoir in a distillation column, to prevent the column from flooding, that includes the steps sensing a rise in rich liquid level to predetermined level in the reservoir, removing rich liquid from the reservoir in response to said sensing, to flow to vaporizer apparatus outside a cold box containing said column, adding heat to the removed rich liquid and converting the removed rich liquid into gas, in said vaporizer apparatus, returning said gas to the distillation column, and utilizing heat from the returned gas in the column to remove excess refrigeration from the rich liquid remaining in the column, thereby stabilizing the column against flooding.
摘要:
A cryogenic air separation plant and method of operation wherein, after an interruption in operation, liquid from the sump of a lower pressure column and liquid from the sump of a higher pressure column is passed to a condenser, preferably an argon column top condenser, prior to the restarting of the plant.
摘要:
The invention relates to a process for the low-temperature fractionation of air in a rectification unit, which comprises a pressure column (1) a low-pressure column (2) and a condenser-evaporator system having at least two falling-film evaporators (203, 204). Oxygen-rich liquid from the low-pressure column (2) is introduced into the evaporation passages of the first and second falling-film evaporators (203, 204) and is partially evaporated. Unevaporated oxygen-rich liquid from the first falling-film evaporator (203) is transferred into the evaporation passages of the second falling-film evaporator (204).