EP0420725A1 - Kühlverfahren, der angewandte Kühlkreislauf und seine Anwendung in der Lufttrennung - Google Patents

Kühlverfahren, der angewandte Kühlkreislauf und seine Anwendung in der Lufttrennung Download PDF

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EP0420725A1
EP0420725A1 EP90402594A EP90402594A EP0420725A1 EP 0420725 A1 EP0420725 A1 EP 0420725A1 EP 90402594 A EP90402594 A EP 90402594A EP 90402594 A EP90402594 A EP 90402594A EP 0420725 A1 EP0420725 A1 EP 0420725A1
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    • F25J—LIQUEFACTION, SOLIDIFICATION OR SEPARATION OF GASES OR GASEOUS OR LIQUEFIED GASEOUS MIXTURES BY PRESSURE AND COLD TREATMENT OR BY BRINGING THEM INTO THE SUPERCRITICAL STATE
    • F25J2270/00—Refrigeration techniques used
    • F25J2270/04—Internal refrigeration with work-producing gas expansion loop
    • F25J2270/06—Internal refrigeration with work-producing gas expansion loop with multiple gas expansion loops
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25J—LIQUEFACTION, SOLIDIFICATION OR SEPARATION OF GASES OR GASEOUS OR LIQUEFIED GASEOUS MIXTURES BY PRESSURE AND COLD TREATMENT OR BY BRINGING THEM INTO THE SUPERCRITICAL STATE
    • F25J2290/00—Other details not covered by groups F25J2200/00 - F25J2280/00
    • F25J2290/34—Details about subcooling of liquids
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S62/00—Refrigeration
    • Y10S62/939—Partial feed stream expansion, air
    • Y10S62/94—High pressure column

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  • the present invention relates to refrigeration production. It applies in particular to the liquefaction of air gases and to air distillation installations, and it relates firstly to a method of refrigeration production by expansion of a fluid in a first turbine called a high pressure turbine, then expansion of part of the fluid from this turbine in a second turbine called a low pressure turbine.
  • the high pressure turbine is the "hot” turbine, that is to say that its inlet temperature is higher than that of the low pressure turbine.
  • Such an arrangement has certain drawbacks: - limiting the cooling of all the incoming air to the inlet temperature of the hot turbine is unfavorable to heat exchange; - the "cold” turbine processes a reduced fluid flow, while it produces less cold per unit of fluid flow and it is in the cold zone that the greatest amount of cold is required when it 'acts to liquefy a gas; moreover, it is also in this cold zone that the heat losses are greatest.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a method making it possible to improve the heat exchange and to better adapt the refrigeration production to requirements.
  • the invention relates to a process of the aforementioned type, characterized in that the inlet temperature of the high pressure turbine is significantly lower than that of the low pressure turbine.
  • This refrigeration cycle of the type comprising a circuit for circulating a cycle fluid, a cycle compressor, a first turbine called a high pressure turbine, and a second turbine called a low pressure turbine, the circuit comprising means for passing at least a part of the cycle fluid compressed by the compressor, after cooling to a first temperature in the high pressure turbine, and means for passing at least a part of the fluid from this turbine into the low pressure turbine, is characterized in that the inlet temperature of the high pressure turbine is significantly lower than that of the low pressure turbine.
  • the invention also relates to: an air distillation process, of the type in which compressed air is cooled and expanded to a medium pressure in a first turbine called a high pressure turbine, and a part of the air thus expanded is sent to a double column distillation while the rest of the air thus expanded is again expanded to around atmospheric pressure in a second turbine called low pressure turbine, characterized in that the inlet temperature of the high pressure turbine is significantly lower to that of the low pressure turbine; and - an air distillation installation, of the type comprising a double air distillation column and a refrigeration cycle, characterized in that the refrigeration cycle is as defined above, the cycle fluid being the air to be separated , installation comprising means for cooling part of the air entering to the vicinity of its dew point, relaxing it in an expansion valve and sending it to the double column, and means for sending this part of the double column the air from the high pressure turbine.
  • the air distillation installation shown in FIG. 1 is intended to produce oxygen and nitrogen in liquid form. It comprises a double distillation column 1 itself comprising a medium pressure column 2 operating at around 6 bar absolute, surmounted by a low pressure column 3 operating slightly above atmospheric pressure.
  • the overhead gas (nitrogen) of column 2 is in indirect heat exchange relationship with the tank liquid (oxygen) of column 3 by means of a vaporizer-condenser 4.
  • the installation also includes a heat exchange line 5 with countercurrent circulation of the fluids placed in heat exchange relationship, and two turbine-booster assemblies 6 and 7.
  • the assembly 6 includes a booster or booster 8 and a "hot" low pressure turbine 9 mounted on the same shaft 10
  • the assembly 7 includes a booster or booster 11 and a cold high pressure turbine 12 mounted on the same shaft 13.
  • the two boosters 8 and 11 are mounted in series.
  • the air to be separated, compressed to 20 bars and purified of water and CO2 is boosted to 30 bars by the assembly of the first booster 8 and the second booster 11, then is cooled to a temperature T1, for example of around - 125 ° C, in passages 14 of the exchange line 5.
  • a part, for example about a quarter, of this air continues to cool down to the cold end of the exchange line, in the same passages 14, from which it emerges liquefied, then, via a line 15, is expanded to 6 bars in an expansion valve 16 and is injected into the bottom of the column 2.
  • all or part of this liquid can be expanded at low pressure and injected into column 3.
  • the rest of the air at 30 bars is exited from the exchange line 5 by a pipe 17 and expanded to 6 bars in the turbine 12, from which it emerges near its dew point.
  • This temperature T2 can for example be between ambient temperature and approximately -30 ° C.
  • the air thus heated is taken out of the exchange line via a line 20 and expanded to the vicinity of atmospheric pressure in the turbine 9, from which it leaves at a temperature close to T1. It is then reintroduced into the exchange line via a line 21, warmed up to room temperature in passages 22 and discharged from the installation, after having possibly served for the regeneration of the adsorbent used for purifying the incoming air and / or for cooling the air leaving the main compressor (not shown) of the 'installation.
  • all or part of the air from the turbine 9 can be cooled to the cold end of the exchange line in passages 23 and then blown into the low pressure column 3, or even be mixed with impure nitrogen , constituting the residual from the double column, being reheated in passages 24 of the exchange line.
  • the rich liquid LR oxygen-enriched air collected in the tank of column 2 is sent to column 3, after sub-cooling in a sub-cooler 25 by vaporization of liquid oxygen withdrawn from the tank of column 3, filtered into 25A and returned to column 3, then expanded in an expansion valve 26, and lean liquid LP consisting essentially of nitrogen, drawn off at the top of column 2, is also sent to column 3 after sub-cooling in a sub-cooler 27 then expanded in an expansion valve 28.
  • the installation produces on the one hand liquid nitrogen, taken off at the top of column 2 via a pipe 29, sub-cooled in the sub-cooler 27, expanded in the vicinity of atmospheric pressure in an expansion valve 30 and stored in a tank 31, and on the other hand liquid oxygen, taken from the tank of column 3 via a driving 32 and so us-cooled in the sub-cooler 27.
  • the latter is cooled by the impure nitrogen drawn off at the head of column 3 via a line 33 and then sent to passages 24 of the exchange line.
  • the nitrogen gas formed in the reservoir 31 is returned to the pipe 33 via a pipe 34.
  • the lower curve C1 represents the variation in enthalpy of the air during cooling and liquefaction
  • the upper curve C2 represents the variation in enthalpy of gases during heating.
  • the cold turbine 12 treats a high air flow with inlet and exhaust temperatures which surround the air liquefaction zone 35, that is to say that it produces a lot of cold despite its operating at low temperature, and moreover it produces this cold in the temperature zone where, precisely, a lot of cold is necessary to liquefy the air and where, moreover, the thermal losses are maximum; and - the hot turbine 9 treats a low air flow and can cover, by ensuring a relaxation of 6 bars to 1 bar, the main part of the temperature zone located above the previous one and in which the cooling is ensured by turbines; thus, the turbine 9 produces little cold in an extended temperature zone where, precisely, little cold is necessary, the products in heat exchange relationship being gaseous, and where, moreover, the heat losses are low.
  • FIG. 1 It follows from the above considerations that the installation of FIG. 1 leads to a specific reduced liquefaction energy. It is also noted that the medium-pressure air conveyed through line 18 can without drawback be in the vicinity of its dew point, which is favorable for distillation in the double column.
  • the cycle nitrogen discharged by the compressor 37 is boosted to 50 bars by all of the boosters 8A and 11A and introduced into passages 14A of the exchange line. Part of this nitrogen continues to cool down to the cold end of the exchange line, is expanded to medium pressure (6 bars) in an expansion valve 16A and separated into two liquid and vapor phases in a separator pot 38.
  • the vapor phase is warmed up to room temperature in passages 19A of the exchange line, and the liquid phase is sub-cooled in a sub- cooler 39.
  • a part of this sub-cooled liquid is expanded to about 1 bar in an expansion valve 40, vaporized in the sub-cooler 39 against the flow of the liquid, then warmed up to room temperature in passages 24A of the exchange line.
  • the rest of the sub-cooled liquid constitutes the production of liquid nitrogen, drawn off via a pipe 41.
  • the non-liquefied part of the high pressure nitrogen is removed from the exchange line at a temperature T1, via a line 17A, expanded at medium pressure in the turbine 12A and injected into the separator 38.
  • Lines 42 and 43 respectively connect the outlet of passages 19A and 24A to the suction of compressors 37 and 36.
  • a line 44 leads to the suction of compressor 36 a flow of nitrogen gas equal to the flow of liquid nitrogen produced by driving 41.
  • the order of magnitude of the difference T2 - T1 is at least equal to half of the temperature drop supplied by a turbine.
  • the hot part of the exchange line 5 or 5A can optionally be cooled down to approximately -40 ° C. by an auxiliary ammonia or "Freon" refrigeration unit.

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