EP1051588A1 - Method and device for evaporating liquid oxygen - Google Patents
Method and device for evaporating liquid oxygenInfo
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- the invention relates to a method for vaporizing liquid oxygen and its use in a method for obtaining oxygen by low-temperature separation of air.
- oxygen is understood to mean any mixture which has an oxygen content which is higher than that of air, for example at least 70%, preferably at least 98%. (In this application, all percentages denote molar amounts, unless expressly stated otherwise.) This includes, in particular, impure oxygen, as well as technically pure oxygen and high-purity oxygen with a purity of 99.99% or higher. For a plethora of applications, it is necessary to convert liquid oxygen into the gas form before use by vaporizing it in a main evaporator by indirect heat exchange with a heat transfer medium.
- Such evaporation occurs particularly in the extraction of gaseous oxygen by low-temperature rectification, in which the oxygen product is obtained in liquid form at the bottom of a rectification column, since it is less volatile than nitrogen and argon.
- the liquid oxygen In order to obtain the product in gaseous form and to generate rising steam for the rectification column, the liquid oxygen must also be evaporated in a main evaporator.
- the most common is the classic Linde double-column process, in which the main evaporator is arranged in the bottom of a low-pressure column and is operated with condensing nitrogen from the top of the pressure column (see Hausen / Linde, low-temperature technology, 2nd edition, section 4.1.2 on page 284 ).
- the main evaporator is operated as a condenser-evaporator and is often referred to as a main condenser. It is implemented by one or more heat exchanger blocks, which are operated as circulation or falling film evaporators.
- the invention also relates to other double-column processes in which the main evaporator is operated, for example, with air, and also to processes with three or more columns for nitrogen-oxygen separation.
- the rectification column or columns for nitrogen-oxygen separation can be followed by devices for extracting other air components, in particular noble gases, for example for extracting argon.
- liquid oxygen is completely or essentially completely evaporated, less volatile impurities such as CO 2 or N 2 O can accumulate in the evaporator, even if they contain only very low concentrations in the oxygen to be evaporated (or in the air to be separated) are. (However, the previously feared acetylene is no longer a problem in air separation plants with adsorptive pre-cleaning.) Some of these less volatile substances, for example CO 2 and N 2 O, can precipitate out as solids and must be removed from time to time in order to prevent them
- Blockage of heat exchanger passages in the main evaporator is avoided.
- the entire system must be switched off to remove these separated solids. In a large air separation plant, this can mean a shutdown of two to five days, for example.
- the flushing volume is usually 0.02 to 0.04% of the total amount of liquid oxygen introduced into the evaporator.
- the invention has for its object to increase the availability of a main evaporator for the vaporization of liquid oxygen and in particular to prevent business interruptions as far as possible.
- the (first) flushing stream which is drawn off from the main evaporator is conducted into an additional evaporator which is arranged separately from the main evaporator. A large part of the first flushing stream is evaporated in this additional evaporator and can thus be obtained as an oxygen product or intermediate product. A second rinsing stream is again taken from the additional evaporator and discarded. (In the special case that krypton and / or xenon are to be obtained from the liquid oxygen, further work-up is also possible.) While the first flushing stream is continuously fed from the main evaporator to the additional evaporator, the second flushing stream can be withdrawn continuously or discontinuously.
- a relatively large amount of liquid can be withdrawn from the main evaporator as the first flushing stream, so that all of the less volatile components are removed and their concentration on the main evaporator is kept low. In particular, there are no solids deposits in the main evaporator.
- this large amount of rinsing liquid is not completely lost because part of the first rinsing stream evaporates in the additional evaporator and is drawn off in gaseous form.
- a customary flushing quantity is drawn off as a second flushing stream, for example 0.02 to 0.5%, preferably 0.02 to 0.2%, of the quantity of liquid oxygen introduced into the main evaporator.
- the rest of the first rinsing stream is evaporated in the additional evaporator and can be used as a gaseous oxygen product.
- Solids can only be separated in the additional evaporator, but not in the
- the auxiliary evaporator can be freed from solids much more easily than the main evaporator.
- normal operation is occasionally interrupted by a heating operation, with the additional evaporator being separated from the main evaporator in the heating operation, in that no liquid is passed from the main evaporator into the additional evaporator.
- the additional evaporator is brought to a temperature which is significantly higher than its temperature in normal operation, for example by at least 20 K, preferably 20 to 50 K.
- the operation of the main evaporator and the system in which it is installed does not need to be interrupted become. Due to the increased flushing of the main evaporator, it no longer needs to be warmed up to remove solids.
- the amount of the first flushing stream which is withdrawn from the main evaporator during normal operation is at least 1%, preferably at least 3% and / or at most 10%, preferably at most 5% of the amount of liquid oxygen introduced into the main evaporator.
- the invention also relates to the use of the method according to claim 1 or 2 in a method for the low-temperature separation of air according to claim 3 and in a corresponding device according to claim 6, in particular air separation processes and systems with air pre-purification by adsorption, for example on a molecular sieve. Such processes and systems are used to obtain oxygen, nitrogen and / or other gases contained in atmospheric air.
- the invention further relates to a device for vaporizing liquid oxygen according to claims 4 and 5.
- a device for vaporizing liquid oxygen according to claims 4 and 5.
- Figure 1 shows a first embodiment with a block
- Main evaporator and Figure 2 shows a second embodiment with a main evaporator consisting of several blocks.
- FIG. 1 shows a section of a double column for the low-temperature separation of air, namely the upper part of the pressure column 1 and the lower section of the low-pressure column 2.
- a main evaporator 3 serves to evaporate liquid oxygen that flows from the lowest mass transfer section of the low-pressure column 2. (The bottom mass transfer section is shown in the drawing as bottom 4, but it could also be an ordered packing.) Gaseous oxygen product is withdrawn from the low pressure column via line 9.
- the main evaporator can be arranged inside the double column, in particular in the bottom of the low-pressure column. Alternatively, it can be implemented as a separate component outside the double column or integrated in another component separate from the double column, for example in a methane discharge column, as shown in DE 4332870 A1 or DE 2055099 A.
- a first rinsing stream is continuously withdrawn via a line 5 arranged in the lower region of the main evaporator 3 and introduced into an additional evaporator 6.
- a second purge stream 7 is drawn off continuously or discontinuously from the lower region of the additional evaporator 6, while evaporated oxygen 8 is fed back into the low-pressure column.
- the steam 8 can be conducted into the oxygen product line 9 from the low pressure column or into another apparatus, for example in the lower area of a methane discharge column according to DE 4332870 A1 or DE 2055099 A.
- Nitrogen from the top of the pressure column 1 is used as the heat transfer medium 10 for indirectly heating the main evaporator.
- the nitrogen 11 condensed in the main evaporator is used as reflux in the two columns.
- the auxiliary evaporator 6 is either also in normal operation with nitrogen from the Pressure column or heated with air as a heat transfer medium 12.
- the condensed heat transfer medium is withdrawn via line 13 and fed into one or more of the rectification columns.
- a warm-up phase includes switching off, emptying,
- Warming up, cooling down and commissioning and takes for example 10 to 24 hours, preferably about 20 hours.
- Device 19 for the removal of less volatile components, for example by adsorption.
- the embodiment of Figure 2 differs from Figure 1 in that the main evaporator is formed by a plurality of blocks 3a, 3b.
- the blocks 3a, 3b are arranged, for example, concentrically around a central tube which is used to supply gaseous nitrogen from the pressure column 1.
- this exemplary embodiment can also be equipped with a device for removing low-volatility components (19 in FIG. 1).
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