US3237418A - Apparatus and method for producing liquid oxygen and/or liquid nitrogen by low temperature rectification of atmospheric air - Google Patents
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- the present installation is of special advantage when mounting in confined spaces is required.
- Another object of the present invention is the provision for removing all moisture and carbon dioxide from the air supply to the installation without the use of conventional chemical agents or auxiliary equipment.
- the cycle would be suitable for producing varying quantities of high purity liquid nitrogen simultaneously with the production of high purity liquid oxygen product.
- the low pressure cycle of the present invention has the ability to control efliciently the required refrigeration of the plant. Its low operating pressure permits the use of an efficient and economical heat exchanger surface and reduces the hazard of hydrocarbon contamination of the products by the feasi bility and use of an oil free compressor and an eflicient liquid phase adsorber.
- FI-Flow Indicator RVRelief Valve LLi-Liquid Level Indicator PD-Pressure Difference Meter P-Pressure Meter (Manometer) PRVPressure Reducing Valve LLCLiquid Level Control SVSafety Valve Referring more particularly to FIGURE 1, atmospheric air is drawn into air compressor 14 wherein it is compressed to about 70 p.s.i.g. pressure. One fraction of the compressed air from compressor 14 is then led through section C of unbalanced reversing type seetional heat exchanger 16, where it is cooled below minus 260 F.
- the remaining air from compressor 14 is led through refrigerated filter 23 where it is cleaned of CO and moisture and cooled below minus 260 F. by boiling bottoms from nitrogen column 20.
- a fraction of the combined cold air streams leaving filter 23, section of the heat exchanger 16 and heat exchanger 50 is fed to nitrogen column 20 through line 23 wherein it is rectified into a high purity nitrogen vapor overhead and a rich liquid air bottom.
- the overhead nitrogen vapors from column 21) are condensed in cold gas refrigerator 26 and transferred to surge tank 28 for use as a liquid reflux to oxygen column 18 as well as other refrigeration requirements and/or product.
- the residual cold air not fed to column 20 is conducted through line 19 and condensed in reboiler 30 of oxygen column 18, the heat of condensation generated providing the boil-up energy of rectification in said oxygen column 18.
- the liquid air produced in reboiler 30 is combined via line 49 with control rich liquid air bottoms from nitrogen column 20, and after being cleaned of dissolved atmospheric hydrocarbon contaminants in adsorber 32 and after being cooled in cycle air subcooler 38 by the combined gas streams from condenser 22 and overhead from column 18, it is passed at reduced pressure into nitrogen column condenser 22 to provide the required refrigeration therein for producing the necessary internal reflux for column 20.
- the evaporated liquid air in condenser 22 is combined with overhead vapors from column 18 at point 25 and warmed in cycle air subcooler 33 and thence passed through heat exchangers 50 and 16, as described above.
- the rich liquid air bottoms from nitrogen column 20 are cleaned in adsorber 40, and thereafter subcooled in cooler 34 by boiling liquid nitrogen made available from surge tank 28.
- the cooled, rich liquid air, entering oxygen column 18 at reduced pressure as a saturated liquidvapor mixture is rectified therein into liquid oxygen product bottoms of at least 99.5% purity.
- the overhead vapors from column 18 are mixed with the cold vapors of nitrogen condenser 22 to provide the refrigeration for reversing heat exchange 16 as described above.
- the liquid oxygen product is withdrawn from column 18 at 44 after traversing cooler 34 where its temperature is reduced to about minus 300 F. by boiling liquid nitrogen.
- the foregoing low temperature has the desirable effect of eliminating liquid flash during transfer to a vented liquid oxygen storage tank (not shown).
- the liquid nitrogen product is Withdrawn from surge tank 28 and tapped off at 46 and/or 48.
- An apparatus for selectively producing liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen by low temperature rectification of atmospheric air with the use of a reversing type sectional heat exchanger comprising a compressor for compressing said atmospheric air to about 70 p.s.i.g. pressure, a nitrogen rectifier column for the air stream from the reversing type heat exchanger producing nitrogen vapors and liquid air bottoms, a liquid oxygen column producing a liquid oxygen product from said liquid air bottoms, said reversing type sectional heat exchanger for the compressed air being in heat exchanging contact with a waste return gas stream from said oxygen and nitrogen columns passing in the opposite direction, a cold gas refrigerator for condensing the nitrogen vapors drawn off from said nitrogen column to form a liquid nitrogen product, and a subcooler in which a first part of said liquid nitrogen product is received therein for indirect heat exchange with said liquid oxygen product and a second part of said liquid nitrogen product, the said second part being used as a liquid reflux for said oxygen column, the liquid oxygen product being also traversed through said subcooler and withdrawn there
- An apparatus for selectively producing liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen by low temperature rectification of atmospheric air with the use of a reversing type sectional heat exchanger comprising a compressor for compressing said atmospheric air to about 70 p.s.i.g. pressure, a nitrogen rectifier column producing nitrogen vapors and liquid air bottoms, from the air stream drawnfrom the reversing heat exchanger said nitrogen rectifier column being provided with a reflux condenser, a liquid oxygen column producing a liquid oxygen product from said liquid air bottoms, a reboiler in heat exchange with the liquid air bottoms in the liquid oxygen column to liquify a portion of compressed air drawn from the reversing heat exchanger, said reversing type sectional heat exchanger for the compressed air being in heat exchange contact with a waste return gas stream from said oxygen and nitrogen columns passing in the opposite direction, a cold gas refrigerator for condensing the nitrogen vapors drawn off from said nitrogen column to form said liquid nitrogen product whereas said liquid nitrogen is used as a liquid reflux for said oxygen column,
- a method for selectively producing liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen products by low temperature rectification of atmospheric air in a nitrogen rectifier column and a liquid oxygen column utilizing a sectional heat exchanger and refrigerated filters in said system and a liquid nitrogen subcooler comprising the steps of compressing atmospheric air; conducting a fraction of said compressed air through said reversing type sectional heat exchanger where it is cooled below minus 260 F.
- a method for selectively producing liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen products by low temperature rectification of atmospheric air in a nitrogen rectifier column and a liquid oxygen column utilizing a reversing sectional heat exchanger and refrigerated filters in said system and a liquid nitrogen subcooler comprising the steps of compressing atmospheric air; conducting a fraction of said compressed air through said reversing type sectional heat exchanger where the compressed air is cooled below 260 F.
- a method for selectively producing liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen products as claimed in claim 3 further comprising cooling and purifying a fraction of said compressed air in said reversing type heat exchanger, and controlling such purity by cooling the residual fraction of compressed air in said refrigerated filter maintained at a temperature less than minus 275 F. by the nitrogen vapors of said nitrogen rectifier and by the boiling nitrogen column bottoms from said nitrogen rectifier column.
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US5557924A (en) * | 1994-09-20 | 1996-09-24 | Vacuum Barrier Corporation | Controlled delivery of filtered cryogenic liquid |
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