EP0547946B2 - Procédé de production d'oxygène impur - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a production process of impure oxygen by air distillation in an air distillation installation double column, in accordance with preamble to claim 1.
- Such a process is known, for example, from document US-A-5,069,699.
- the applications concerned by the invention are those which consume large amounts of impure oxygen.
- a known means of exploiting this pressure consists in combining the air distillation apparatus with a gas turbine: the air to be separated is taken wholly or partially at discharge of the compressor from this turbine, and the low waste gas pressure from the distillation apparatus is returned after compression to the gas turbine, impure oxygen and nitrogen being sent for use under the pressure of the column that produces them.
- US-A-5,069,699 describes an air distillation process in an installation comprising a double column and a column operating at very high pressure.
- One of the two condensers in the column low pressure is supplied by an air flow or a nitrogen flow from of the column operating at very high pressure.
- the invention aims to further reduce energy expenditure necessary for the production of impure oxygen and to overcome the defects of previous systems.
- the subject of the invention is a method according to claim 1.
- a second, more volatile vaporizing gas can be condensed as said first vaporizing gas but less volatile than top nitrogen of the medium pressure column, at an intermediate level between those of said condensations.
- FIG 1 represent schematically an embodiment of the method air distillation according to the invention.
- the modes of shown in Figures 2 to 4 are not covered by the revendications.
- the installation shown in Figure 1 is intended to produce oxygen at a purity of the order 85% under a pressure of the order of 7.4 bar absolute. It essentially comprises a double column 1 of air distillation, consisting of a medium column pressure (or “MP column”) 2 operating at 15.7 bars absolute and a low pressure column (or “BP column”) 3 operating at 6.3 bar absolute, an exchange line main thermal 4, a sub-cooler 5, a auxiliary vaporizer-condenser 6 and a turbine 7 blowing air into the low pressure column.
- the column 3 is superimposed on column 2 and contains in tank a vaporizer-condenser 8 and, above it, a second vaporizer-condenser 9.
- the air to be distilled arrives below average pressure via line 10 and enters the line 4. Most of this air is cooled to the vicinity of its dew point and exit at the end cold of the exchange line, the rest having left the exchange line at an intermediate temperature, relaxed at low pressure in turbine 7 to ensure the keeping the installation cold, and blown to a intermediate level in column BP 3.
- a fraction of the fully cooled air is introduced, via a pipe 11, at the base of the column MP 2, and the rest is condensed in the vaporizer-condenser 6; part of the liquid obtained is introduced via a pipe 12 at an intermediate point from column 2, and the rest is, after sub-cooling at 5 and expansion in an expansion valve 13, introduced at an intermediate point in column BP 3.
- the approximately pure nitrogen produced at the head of the MP column is partly evacuated from the installation in as a product, after reheating in the line exchange, via line 16, and, for the rest, sent in gaseous form via line 17, below average pressure, in the upper evaporator-condenser 9. After condensation, this nitrogen is returned to reflux in head of the MP column via a pipe 18.
- impure nitrogen gas withdrawn in an intermediate point in column 2 and, in this example, at the same level as the lean liquid, is sent via a line 19, at medium pressure, in the lower vaporizer-condenser 8.
- the liquid thus obtained is returned to reflux in the MP column, about close to the same level, via line 20.
- the temperature of the liquid in the bottom of the LP column is determined by that of the gas condensed in this vaporizer-condenser.
- the temperature of the tank liquid, which is impure oxygen is relatively high. Therefore, for a desired purity of this impure oxygen, the pressure of the BP column, i.e. the low pressure, can be increased.
- the vaporizer-condenser upper 9 is used to provide the necessary reflux at the top in the MP column.
- the impure oxygen is withdrawn in the form gas from column BP 3, and is simply reheated in exchange line 4 before being evacuated via the driving 24. This is particularly interesting when impure oxygen is desired under low pressure. Consequently, the vaporizer-condenser 6 is deleted.
- a fraction of the average air pressure cooled near its dew point is sent, via a line 26, into the vaporizer-condenser lower 8 instead of the intermediate gas of the Figure 1.
- This intermediate gas feeds a intermediate vaporizer-condenser 27 located between the vaporizers-condensers lower 8 and higher 9.
- Liquefied air from vaporizer-condenser 8 is sent in part, via line 28, in the MP column and in part, after sub-cooling in 5 and expansion in the valve trigger 13, in the LP column.
- the impure oxygen is withdrawn under liquid form of the BP column tank and then it is brought by a pump 23 at the desired production pressure, then vaporized and heated under this pressure in the exchange line 4 before being evacuated from the installation via line 24.
- This average nitrogen pressure combined with a medium pressure nitrogen stream taken from line 16, is compressed again by a compressor 33 at a vaporization pressure of impure oxygen compressed by pump 23, liquefied in the exchange line, then, after expansion in a valve trigger 34, introduced at reflux at the top of the column MP.
- the installation in Figure 4 includes also a BP 3 column with minaret 30. However, unlike the previous case, it's high air pressure, boosted to a vaporization pressure of impure oxygen by a booster 35, which ensures the vaporization of impure oxygen in the exchange line 4. In this example, this air is, after liquefaction and expansion valve in expansion valve 36 and in the trigger 13, distributed between the two columns 2 and 3. by therefore, the compressor 33 and the expansion valve 34 from Figure 3 are deleted.
- This nitrogen pressure can be chosen between average pressure and the pressure at which nitrogen condenses at the cold end of the exchange line.
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