EP0452177B1 - Procédé et installation de production d'azote gazeux, et système de fourniture d'azote correspondant - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to the production of nitrogen gas. It relates more particularly to the satisfaction of moderate needs (typically 100 to 1000 Nm3 / h) and variable nitrogen with high purity, that is to say typically containing less than 0.1% oxygen.
- moderate needs typically 100 to 1000 Nm3 / h
- variable nitrogen with high purity that is to say typically containing less than 0.1% oxygen.
- the flow rates considered are mass flow rates.
- High purity nitrogen is usually obtained cryogenically.
- the construction of a traditional autonomous production unit represents a prohibitive investment, in the case of automated installations, and a more limited investment but high personnel costs in the opposite case, which always results in a high cost price of nitrogen.
- a more economical solution consists in using an evaporator, that is to say a tank of liquid nitrogen of large capacity, for example of several tens of thousands of liters, from where the liquid nitrogen is withdrawn and vaporized.
- This solution is unsatisfactory from an energy point of view, since the cooling energy contained in liquid nitrogen is lost and, moreover, it requires the presence at a relatively short distance of a unit for producing liquid nitrogen, to that the cost of refueling the evaporator by tank truck remains moderate.
- FR-A-2.225.705 and EP-A1-0.190.355 describe processes for the production of nitrogen gas in which a flow of liquid nitrogen is introduced at the top of a distillation column to ensure the supply of cold to the column.
- the object of the invention is to provide a technique making it possible to produce variable and moderate quantities of nitrogen gas at reduced cost, at increased distances from a unit for producing liquid nitrogen.
- the object of the invention is a process for producing nitrogen gas with variable flow rate according to claim 1.
- air distillation column of the HPN type means a simple distillation column provided with an overhead condenser.
- the air to be treated compressed under a pressure of the order of 6 to 12 bars, purified with water and CO2 and cooled near its dew point, is introduced at the base of the column.
- the "rich liquid” (oxygen-enriched air) collected in the column tank is expanded and vaporized in the overhead condenser, then discharged as waste.
- the nitrogen gas produced is withdrawn at the top of the column.
- the invention also relates to an installation for the production of nitrogen gas with variable flow rate intended for the implementation of such a process.
- This installation is defined in claim 5.
- the nitrogen consumption C (Fig. 3 (a)) is constant and equal to the nominal flow DN, and the sensor 19 indicates a constant pressure P ( Fig. 3 (e)).
- a line 20 fitted with an all-or-nothing regulation solenoid valve 21 a low average flow rate of liquid nitrogen, equal for example to about 5% of DN (Fig. 3 (b)), is introduced at the head of the column 10 and is used to maintain cold and also to increase the reflux rate of the column.
- the exchanger 13 is inactive.
- the incoming air, compressed by the compressor 14, precooled by the air cooler 15, purified in the apparatus 12 and cooled to the vicinity of its dew point in the exchange line 11, is introduced at the base of the column 10.
- the rich liquid collected in the column tank is expanded in an expansion valve 22, vaporized in the head condenser 23 of the column, heated against the flow of air in the exchange line, then used to regenerate the device 12 before being evacuated via a line 24 as a gas residual from the installation.
- the time T is determined so as to ensure that, whatever the state, hot or cold, of the installation upon restarting, cooling and the correct charge of liquid at each level of the column are obtained.
- the solenoid valve 30 thus closes at the instant t 7 indicated in FIG. 3.
- the installation can very easily operate fully automatically despite a very inexpensive structure and means of automation.
- a nitrogen flow at least equal to the demand is vaporized in the column, which ensures both the necessary cold supply and the production of nitrogen gas required, and moreover prevents the incoming air to go up the column.
- the nitrogen arriving in the capacity 18 immediately has the required purity.
- the two solenoid valves 21 and 30 can be replaced by a single cryogenic valve with variable flow.
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