EP0842385A1 - Method and device for the production of variable amounts of a pressurized gaseous product - Google Patents
Method and device for the production of variable amounts of a pressurized gaseous productInfo
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Definitions
- the invention relates to a method and a device for the variable production of a gaseous pressure product by low-temperature separation of air by means of pressure increase in the liquid state and subsequent evaporation.
- the invention is therefore based on the object of specifying a method and a device which can be operated as flexibly as possible and which in particular avoid the disadvantages described above. This object is achieved by the method according to claim 1.
- the gaseous print product is withdrawn in liquid form from the or one of the rectification columns and buffered in a first storage tank.
- the liquid level in the tank rises or falls depending on whether a below-average or an above-average amount of product is currently being produced.
- the amount of liquid fraction generated in the rectification that cannot be vaporized or otherwise used (for example as a liquid product) at the moment can be introduced into the tank; Accordingly, liquid is evacuated from the tank when there is a high product requirement.
- “Storage tank” here means any device for storing liquid. This can be, for example, an external tank with its own insulation, but also a different type of vessel, which is arranged within the low-temperature separation plant and is suitable for buffering liquid.
- any known method can be used to increase the pressure in the liquid state, for example pressure build-up evaporation on the storage tank, utilization of a static height, pumps upstream or downstream of the storage tank, or combinations of these methods.
- the liquid fraction is pressurized by a pump located downstream of the tank. The throughput of this pump can be controlled to vary the amount of product.
- the method according to the invention also has a refrigeration cycle with a cycle compressor and an expansion machine.
- a heat transfer medium in particular a process gas for air separation, is compressed therein, expanded to perform work, and returned to the circuit compressor.
- cold is generated to compensate for insulation and exchange losses and, if necessary, for product liquefaction.
- the circuit compressor also serves to compress the heat transfer medium, which condenses against the product to be evaporated and is buffered in a second storage tank (first partial flow of the heat transfer medium). It compresses the heat transfer medium to a pressure that corresponds to a condensation temperature that is at least approximately is equal to the vaporization temperature of the liquid pressurized fraction. At least a part of the heat transfer medium compressed in the circuit compressor is returned to the circuit compressor, in particular the second partial flow after its relaxation, or part of it. The second partial flow of the heat carrier compressed in the circuit compressor therefore does not need to be discarded or not completely, but is at least partially circulated. Refrigeration cycle and variable product evaporation are integrated in the invention; the same machine is used both for cooling and for generating the pressure required for the evaporation of the liquid fraction.
- the first partial flow is also varied in accordance with the variable product quantity in the invention.
- this variation can be implemented in different ways and can thus be flexibly adapted to the current needs.
- the amount of heat carrier compressed in the circuit compressor is kept constant when there is an increased need for gaseous pressure product.
- the variation of the first partial flow is absorbed by a corresponding variation of the second partial flow of the heat transfer medium.
- the amount of the second partial flow is decreased / increased by the same amount by which the amount of the first partial flow is increased / decreased.
- An increased amount of heat transfer medium liquefied in the second partial flow is temporarily stored in the second tank; an increased amount of gas in the second partial flow can be compensated for by a corresponding removal of gas (for example as a product) from the circuit; Conversely, if production is below average, a correspondingly smaller amount of gas is withdrawn from the cycle.
- the system can be operated in a second operating mode.
- the throughput of the second partial flow remains the same, while the variation of the first partial flow is followed up by the circuit compressor. If there is an increased need for gaseous pressure product, the amount of the second partial flow is kept constant and the amount of the heat carrier compressed in the circuit compressor is increased by the same amount as the amount of the first partial flow. Nevertheless, the The method according to the invention, even in this mode of operation, the relative fluctuations in the compressor throughput are comparatively small, since the circulation quantity can remain constant.
- the constant proportion of the gas compressed in the circuit compressor dampens the relative fluctuations in the compressor throughput.
- the two modes of operation can also be combined by compensating for part of the fluctuations in the first partial flow by varying the second partial flow and for another part by changing the throughput on the circuit compressor. If there is an increased need for gaseous pressure product, both the amount of the heat carrier compressed in the circuit compressor is increased and the amount of the second partial stream is reduced.
- the rectification system has a double column consisting of a pressure column and a low pressure column, for example liquid oxygen from the bottom of the low pressure column or liquefied nitrogen from the pressure column can be used as the liquid fraction.
- further flow of the heat transfer medium is relaxed while performing work.
- additional cooling can be generated in the circuit
- the amount of further electricity that is supplied to the work-relieving relaxation can be reduced when there is an increased need for gaseous pressure product and an excess of cold can thus be at least partially compensated for.
- the work-relieving expansion of the further stream leads approximately from the inlet pressure of the circuit compressor (lower level of the refrigeration circuit) to about atmospheric pressure, and the further work relieved of pressure is withdrawn as a pressureless gas product.
- any process stream available in the process can be used as a heat carrier for the refrigeration cycle and the evaporation of the liquid fraction, for example air or another oxygen-nitrogen mixture.
- nitrogen from the rectification system is preferably used as the heat carrier, in the case of a double column, for example, gaseous nitrogen which is obtained at the top of the pressure column.
- the entire cycle nitrogen is produced in the plant itself.
- a subset of the heat transfer medium can come from an external source, for example by feeding liquid nitrogen from another system or from a tanker truck into the second storage tank.
- the second storage tank can thus be used in addition to its buffering effect for variable print product extraction as a safety reserve (backup) for a temporary failure of the system and / or as a buffer for liquid product.
- the use of nitrogen as a heat transfer medium has the advantage that the refrigeration cycle and the evaporation of printed products have no negative effects on the rectification, as would be the case with the supply of air liquefied against the pressurized product and with the feeding of gaseous air from an expansion machine into a low-pressure column. Rectification can thus be optimal in the process according to the invention using nitrogen as the heat transfer medium be driven.
- the process is therefore also suitable for high product purities and yields, as well as for the extraction of argon following air separation in the narrower sense (eg crude argon column connected to the low pressure column of a double column).
- the main heat exchanger system has a heat exchanger block in which both the cooling of the feed air and the evaporation of the liquid fraction are carried out under increased pressure.
- the main heat exchanger system has a plurality of heat exchanger blocks, in particular a first and a second heat exchanger block, the cooling of the feed air being carried out in the first heat exchanger block and the evaporation of the liquid fraction under increased pressure in the second heat exchanger block.
- the two heat exchanger blocks are coupled by a compensating current which is taken from one of the two heat exchanger blocks between the warm and cold ends and fed to the other of the two heat exchanger blocks between the warm and cold ends.
- the invention also relates to a device according to claim 8.
- Compressed and cleaned feed air 10 is cooled under a pressure of 5 to 10 bar, preferably 5.5 to 6.5 bar in the heat exchanger 11, which forms the main heat exchanger system with the heat exchanger 12. Via line 13, it is introduced into a pressure column 14 at approximately dew point temperature.
- the pressure column belongs to the rectification system, which also has a low pressure column 15, which is operated at a pressure of 1.3 to 2 bar, preferably 1.5 to 1.7 bar.
- Pressure column 14 and Niederbuchklaie 15 are thermally coupled via a main capacitor 16.
- Bottom liquid 17 from the pressure column 14 is subcooled in a counterflow 18 against product flows of the low pressure column and fed into the low pressure column 15 (line 19).
- Gaseous nitrogen 20 from the top of the pressure column 14 is liquefied in the main condenser 16 against evaporating liquid in the bottom of the low pressure column 15.
- Some of the condensate 21 is fed as a return to the pressure column 14 (line 22) and another part 23 is introduced into a separator 25 after supercooling 18 (FIG. 24).
- the low-pressure column 15 is supplied with return liquid from the separator 25 (line 26).
- Low pressure nitrogen 27 and impure nitrogen 28 are heated to approximately ambient temperature after removal from the low pressure column 15 in the heat exchangers 18 and 11.
- the impure nitrogen 30 can be used to regenerate a molecular sieve (not shown) for air purification; the low-pressure nitrogen 29 is either discharged as a product or used in an evaporative cooler to cool cooling water.
- Oxygen is withdrawn as a liquid fraction via line 31 from the bottom of the low-pressure column 15, supercooled (18) and introduced into a liquid oxygen tank (first storage tank) 33 (32).
- the liquid oxygen tank 33 is preferably at about atmospheric pressure.
- Liquid oxygen 34 from the first storage tank 33 is brought to an increased pressure of, for example, 5 to 80 bar by means of a pump 35, depending on the product pressure required. (Of course, other methods for increasing the pressure in the liquid phase can also be used, for example by utilizing a hydrostatic potential or by pressure build-up evaporation in a storage tank.)
- the liquid high-pressure oxygen 36 is evaporated in the heat exchanger 12 and removed as an internally compressed gaseous product 37.
- the part of the gaseous nitrogen from the pressure column 14, which is not fed to the main condenser 16, is drawn off via the lines 38, 39 and 40 through the heat exchanger 11 and fed as a heat transfer medium to a cold circuit, which includes a two-stage cycle compressor 41, 42 and one Expansion turbine 43 includes.
- the nitrogen from for example, compression stage pressure is compressed to a pressure that corresponds to a nitrogen condensation temperature that is at least approximately equal to the evaporation temperature of the liquid pressurized oxygen 36.
- this pressure is, for example, 15 to 60 bar.
- a first partial stream 45 of the highly compressed nitrogen 44 is liquefied at least partially, preferably completely or essentially completely, against the evaporating oxygen 36 and fed into a separator 46.
- the second partial flow 59 of the nitrogen compressed in the circuit compressor is fed to the expansion turbine 43 at the high pressure and at a temperature which lies between the temperatures at the warm and at the cold end of the heat exchanger 12, and is expanded there to perform work at approximately pressure column pressure.
- the relaxed second partial flow 60 is partly fed back through heat exchanger 12 (via 61, 62) and partly through heat exchanger 11 (via 63, 64, 39, 40) to the inlet of the circuit compressor 41, 42.
- Liquid nitrogen from the separator 46 can be fed as a return line to the pressure column 14 via line 47 and / or introduced via line 48 into a second storage tank (liquid nitrogen tank 49) which is under a pressure of, for example, 1 to 5 bar, preferably below about atmospheric pressure .
- the tank can also optionally be fed with excess liquid 50 from the separator 25, which is not required as a return for the low pressure column 15. If necessary, liquid nitrogen can be pressed into the separator 46 by means of a pump 51 (line 52).
- Part of the nitrogen 53 from line 39 can be removed from the heat exchanger 11 at an intermediate temperature.
- This part serves partly as a compensating flow 54, with the aid of which the efficiency of the main heat exchanger system 11, 12 can be improved, and partly as a further flow 55 of the heat transfer medium, which is expanded in a second expansion turbine 56 to slightly above atmospheric pressure while performing work.
- the further stream 57 which is relaxed in terms of work, is heated in the heat exchanger 12 to approximately ambient temperature and leaves the system as a gaseous product 58.
- Liquid oxygen and / or liquid nitrogen can be withdrawn as products from the storage tanks 33, 49 (the corresponding lines are not shown in the drawing).
- the alternating storage has no disruptive effects on the rectification, in particular neither liquid air is fed to the rectification nor is low-pressure air fed directly into the low-pressure column.
- a conventional argon rectification can be connected to an intermediate point 66 of the low-pressure column 15, as is indicated in the drawing by the lines shown there.
- one of the methods and devices described in EP-B-377117 or in one of the European patent applications 95101844.9 or 95101845.6 with older seniority is preferably used.
- the first stage 41 of the circuit compressor is also used as a product compressor in that a product stream 65 is drawn off under a pressure of preferably 8 to 35 bar, for example 20 bar, between the first and the second stage.
- the two basic modes of operation of a method and a device according to the invention are now explained below.
- the system is designed for a certain average amount of pressurized oxygen product. Production can fluctuate around this average value, between a minimum and a maximum value. To explain how this fluctuation is achieved, the two extreme operating cases ("Max.”, “Min.”) And the operating case of the average pressure oxygen production (“Average”) of a system that processes 190,000 NrrvVh feed air are presented in the following numerical examples .
- the pressures are
- Liquid oxygen tank 33 1.1 bar
- Table 1 relates to the mode of operation in which the expansion turbine 43 for the second partial flow 59 is operated at a constant speed; in the table 2 the operating mode shown, the throughput is kept constant by the circuit compressor 41, 42. Of course, any transition between these two modes of operation is also possible in the exemplary embodiment.
- the amounts of the respective flows for the three operating cases mentioned are given in 1000 Nm 3 / h.
- the reference symbols in the first column of the table refer to the drawing.
- the scheme in the drawing is divided in half by a dashed line.
- the left half essentially contains the cold circuit and the storage tanks; the entire rectification is in the right half.
- all flows in the right half of the drawing remain completely or essentially unchanged, the fluctuations in the production of pressurized oxygen only affect the circuit and the storage tanks. This is reflected in the first six lines of the two tables, in which all streams are mentioned that cross the dashed line; these have the same throughput in all operating cases, while the amount of evaporation changes (reference symbols 36, 37).
- the second partial flow 59, 60 is kept constant.
- the variation of the first partial stream 45 necessary for the evaporation is brought about by the corresponding change in the throughput through the circuit compressor (stream 44): if, for example, the production increases from the average to the maximum value, the throughput through the circuit compressor increases by approximately the same amount like the amount of product too.
- the additional gas is made available by a corresponding reduction in the amount of gas which is withdrawn from the circuit as a further stream 55, 57, 58 through the turbine 56.
- the fluctuating amounts of liquefied heat transfer medium (first partial flow 45) are buffered in that excess liquid is fed to the second storage tank 49 via line 48 when production is above average; Conversely, the missing liquid is fed from the liquid nitrogen tank via line 52 in the case of a small amount of product, in order to keep the return flow for the pressure column 14 constant.
- Table 1 The numerical example of Table 1 is designed so that an average excess of liquid of 1500 NrrvVh of oxygen and nitrogen is generated. This can be continuous, intermittent or in variable form be carried away from liquid products. In addition, it is also possible with the method to change the average cooling capacity of the circuit and thus the average amount of liquid products during operation by adapting the average speeds of the turbines accordingly. The system can thus be operated particularly flexibly not only with regard to the internally compressed printed product, but also with regard to liquid production.
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