摘要:
A method and apparatus for separating air in which a compressed and purified air stream is cooled in a main heat exchanger. Thereafter, the compressed and purified air is separated in a distillation column system to produce product streams. The product streams warm within the main heat exchanger by indirectly exchanging heat with the compressed and purified air stream. One or more of the product streams is distributed to a plurality of vortex tubes at successively warmer temperatures so that warm and cold streams produced thereby become successively warmer and one or more of the warm streams has a temperature warmer than that of said compressed and purified air stream upon its introduction into said main heat exchanger. All but the warm stream(s) having the warmer temperature are recycled back to said main heat exchanger to participate in the indirect heat exchange and heat is rejected by discharging said warm stream(s) so that heat is rejected at the warmer temperature and refrigeration is produced.
摘要:
Process and apparatus for the production of gaseous oxygen under median pressure with a double distillation column (5). The low pressure column (7) of the double column (5)is operated under a pressure substantially greater than atmospheric pressure and slightly greater than the desired production pressure of oxygen, this low pressure being about 2 to 5 bars. The medium pressure column (6) of the double column (5) is under a corresponding pressure, namely, about 8 to 16 bars. The gaseous production oxygen is directly recovered from the base of the low pressure column, and the installation is maintained cold, at least in part, by free expansion of at least one gaseous product leaving the low pressure column.
摘要:
A process for producing nitrogen and oxygen from a precompressed and cooled air, comprising compression of air to a pressure of from 0.3 to 0.6 MPa, cooling the compressed air to a saturated state with a partial liquefaction at a temperature of from 90.degree. to 100.degree. K. The cooled air with a partial content of the liquid is supplied to separation into at least one vortex tube.An apparatus for carrying said process comprises a compressor (1) and heat-exchangers (2) positioned along the path of movement of the compressed air, which heat-exchangers have a high-pressure cavity and a low-pressure cavity, and a vortex tube (4) having, at one end thereof, an inlet nozzle (5) and a diaphragm (6) for discharging nitrogen and, at the other end thereof, a diffuser (7) for discharging oxygen. The inlet nozzle (5) of the vortex tube (4) is connected with the high-pressure cavity of the heat-exchanger (2), while the diaphragm (6) of the vortex pipe (4) is connected with the low-pressure cavity of the heat-exchanger (2).
摘要:
This invention is about an air separation apparatus to produce oxygen and nitrogen through isobaric separation, which is based on the Rankine cycle system of similar thermal energy power circulation apparatus at cryogenic side, a liquid pump is used to input work and the cold is made up to the air separation apparatus with refrigerating media, so as to realize the isobaric separation of air to produce nitrogen and oxygen. The air separation apparatus of this invention can save energy by over 30% as compared with the traditional advanced apparatus with the identical refrigerating capacity, and it can also realize centralize gas supply via the air separation apparatus, therefore it constitutes a breakthrough to the traditional air separation technology and refrigeration theory, with substantial economic, social and environmental protection benefits.
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:
This invention is about an air separation apparatus to produce oxygen and nitrogen through isobaric separation, which is based on the Rankine cycle system of similar thermal energy power circulation apparatus at cryogenic side, a liquid pump is used to input work and the cold is made up to the air separation apparatus with refrigerating media, so as to realize the isobaric separation of air to produce nitrogen and oxygen. The air separation apparatus of this invention can save energy by over 30% as compared with the traditional advanced apparatus with the identical refrigerating capacity, and it can also realize centralize gas supply via the air separation apparatus, therefore it constitutes a breakthrough to the traditional air separation technology and refrigeration theory, with substantial economic, social and environmental protection benefits.
摘要:
The diclosure is directed to methods of gas separation wherein controlled flow vortex tube expansion principles are employed in liquefaction and cold producing processes; a multi-stage low pressure and a multi-stage high pressure process being involved. The vortex tube is introduced in the parent application as being employed in cases with more efficiency than the expansion turbine. Herein, by addition, support figures are supplied for these cases, and also vortex tube separation processes are shown capable of replacing rectification column processes; liquefaction and separation processes using controlled flow vortex tubes with double purpose being submitted herein as new.