EP1634024B1 - Procede et installation de fourniture de secours d'un gaz sous pression par vaporisation de liquide cryogenique - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to methods and facilities for providing relief gas under pressure by spraying cryogenic liquids, particularly those used to supply customers with gaseous products (nitrogen, oxygen, argon) when industrial installations (such as air separation devices) can only partially, or not at all, supply the product (eg in the case of tripping, load reduction for electric tariff constraint ).
- cryogenic liquids particularly those used to supply customers with gaseous products (nitrogen, oxygen, argon) when industrial installations (such as air separation devices) can only partially, or not at all, supply the product (eg in the case of tripping, load reduction for electric tariff constraint ).
- the invention also applies to the storage of other cryogenic liquids such as hydrogen, helium, carbon monoxide and methane.
- the partial oxidation reactors require a supply of high pressure oxygen (25 bar and more) with a stabilized pressure at +/- 1% of the nominal value.
- the air separation units supplying the oxygen must therefore respect this constraint, whatever their mode of operation and in particular in case of stopping of the air separation unit.
- an assembly comprising a storage of liquid oxygen, cryogenic pumps and a steam-heated vaporizer, provides the supply flow.
- a spraying device is illustrated in EP-A-0452177 where liquid nitrogen from storage is vaporized in an auxiliary vaporizer by heat exchange with ambient air.
- EP-A-0628778 discloses a method of supplying a pressurized gas with a cryogenic liquid storage the liquid of which is pumped and then vaporized in a vaporizer before being sent to the customer without using auxiliary means of liquid pressurization constituted by a pressurized gas supply line connected to the line supplying the vaporizer.
- This document also describes an installation for supplying a gas under pressure according to the preamble of claim 8.
- EP-A-0756144 describes a storage of liquid nitrogen connected to a backup vaporizer by an inverted U-shaped pipe. Sending gases from storage in the line triggers a siphon effect and sinks the liquid from one arm of the U to the other.
- this heat exchanger can use for example air, steam, hot water, natural gas to vaporize the pressurized liquid.
- the time required for the emergency system to reach stably, 100% of its capacity is of the order of 5 minutes which decompose in 1 to 2 minutes for starting the pump and 2 to 3 minutes for the revving of the vaporization exchanger.
- a careful selection of the various elements makes it possible to reduce this time to 3 minutes.
- this time of 3 minutes is still too long vis-à-vis the pressure fluctuation constraints allowed in the pipe: in this case as described above, one solution is to install downstream of the heat exchanger capacities gas stamp, pressurized to 200 bar for example and dimensioned to provide production for 1 to 3 minutes, the time that the system of the pump and the vaporizer reaches its normal operating regime.
- the disadvantage of this solution is its high price to install a high pressure capacity, an oxygen expansion station and an oxygen compression system. The latter is carried out by a piston compressor or more generally by another emergency steaming unit with very high pressure piston pumps and a high volume atmospheric vaporization pin, high pressure, pump to fill the buffer capacities ... ).
- the pressure of the customer network will drop along a curve whose slope depends on the volume of water in the network and the flow rate consumed. So the low pressure limit (- 1%) can be reached quickly (less than 5 seconds) if the length of the network is less than one kilometer.
- FIGS. 1 to 6 are schematic diagrams of a cryogenic separation apparatus and a backup gas supply apparatus operating according to the method of the invention.
- an air separation apparatus comprises a double column with a medium pressure column 3 thermally connected to a low pressure column by a condenser 4.
- the apparatus is supplied with compressed air, purified and cooled, the cooling taking place in the line exchange (not shown).
- line exchange There is also a source of frigories necessary for distillation which may include at least one Claude turbine, an insufflation turbine or a nitrogen turbine.
- the usual risings of rich liquid and poor liquid from the medium pressure column to the low pressure column have not been illustrated for the sake of simplification.
- Residual nitrogen (not shown) is withdrawn at the top of the low pressure column and is heated in the exchange line 7.
- the exchange line 7, the double column 3, 5, the turbine or turbines, the riser lines of rich liquid and poor liquid and a substantially vertical pipe 13 are contained in an insulated cold box 33.
- the air separation apparatus is designed to provide a flow of gaseous oxygen under pressure 31. However, if this flow rate is missing, in case of failure of the apparatus, or is insufficient, it is necessary to produce a backup gas 29 by vaporization of liquid oxygen stored in a storage 9.
- the liquid oxygen is stored under low pressure, pressurized by a backup pump 11 and vaporized against a stream of water vapor in a vaporizer 27.
- the air separation apparatus produces a flow of liquid oxygen which is pressurized in a pump 12 to a pressure P1 and divided into two.
- a first flow 17 passes through an open valve V5, vaporizes in the exchange line 7 and passes through the open valve V6. This flow rate is the production 31 of the air separation device sent to the customer.
- the valve V5 serves to throttle the output of the pump 12, the pressure drop of the valve V5 being slightly greater than the hydraulic height of a vertical pipe 13 which is brought the second liquid flow 19 through the valve V1.
- the vertical pipe 13 installed in the cold box occupies the entire height H of the cold box 33 so as to be largely above a vaporizer 27.
- the diameter of the vertical pipe 13 is defined in order to store the sufficient volume of liquid cryogenic high pressure corresponding to 1 minute of supply to the customer of oxygen gas high pressure. It is very easy to find cryogenic pipes resistant to very high pressures and large diameter.
- the pipe may be shorter or slightly longer than the height of the element. higher of the cold box (head of the low pressure column or argon column, for example).
- this line is traversed by a low flow rate of high-pressure liquid P1 from pump 12 of the pump apparatus (through valve V1); the liquid is then expanded (through the valve V2) to the tank of the low pressure column by the riser 23 so that the liquid is continuously circulating.
- This circulation is necessary to ensure a maximum filling of the pipe 13 in free cryogenic liquid.
- the pressure P r of the gas network 17, 31 is lower than the pressure P1 at the upper end of the vertical pipe 13, the difference being essentially equal to the pressure drop in the exchange line 7.
- the pressure P2 at the lower end of the vertical pipe is greater than the pressure P1 and equal to P1 + pgH, if the pipe is the full height of the cold box.
- valves V1 and V2 are closed and the pressure at the upper end of the vertical pipe 13 is equalized with the pressure of the network 17, 31 by the opening of a valve V3 installed on a pipe 21 connecting the upper end vertical pipe 13 to the pipes 17, 31 of the customer network.
- the liquid contained in the pipe 13 is finally sent by gravitational flow to the vaporizer 27 by opening the flow control valve V4 installed on the connecting pipe 25 between the lower end of the vertical pipe and the inlet of the vaporizer. .
- the figure 3 shows the case in which the air separation apparatus comprises an oxygen compressor 37 for supplying the customer with high pressure oxygen, the diagram remains the same but the circulation of liquid in the lines 13, 19, 23 is ensured by a piston pump 35.
- the pump is not essential because, as we see in the Figure 4 the vertical pipe 13 can operate at a pressure lower than the pressure of the high pressure oxygen sent to the customer.
- the liquid is pressurized by sending gas through the valve V3.
- the figure 5 shows that the vertical pipe, while being contained in the cold box 33 of an air separation unit, is not necessarily fed from it.
- the pump 12 being on and the pump 11 stopped, a circulation of liquid oxygen between the storage 9 and the vertical pipe 13 through a pump.
- piston 41 which feeds the upper end of the pipe 13 by a pipe 39 and a valve V2 which ensures the return of liquid to the storage 9 through the pipe 37.
- valves V3 and V4 open, the valves V1 and V2 close and the free liquid contained in the pipe 13 flows via the pipe 25 to the vaporizer 27 to ensure the production of backup gas during the start of the pump 11.
- the Figure 6 shows the case in which the vertical pipe is integrated not with the air separation apparatus but with the storage 9 outside the cold box.
- the pipe placed in the inter-wall of the outer casing 133 of the storage is effectively insulated and can be very high, the storage reaching sometimes the 30 meters.
- the head of the pipe receives liquid from the interior of the storage of a pump 41 through the valve V1 to ensure a free liquid flow.
- the liquid of the riser pipe 13 is returned to storage by the valve V2.
- the valves V4 and V3 are opened and the liquid passes to the vaporizer 27. In this case, the riser pipe is completely isolated from the cold box 133. This variant is useful if the cold box is less high than storage or when the separation device does not have a cold box.
- the invention has been described with respect to a double air separation column but it is easy to see that it applies to a simple column containing many theoretical plates, a triple column or a column system comprising a column argon.
- the separation apparatus can separate the air by cryogenic distillation, permeation, adsorption or any other known means.
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