Single expander and a cold compressor process to produce oxygen

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1998-01-22

1999-05-11

Capossela, Ronald

Refrigeration

Cryogenic treatment of gas or gas mixture

Separation of gas mixture

62652, F25J3/00

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059015764

ABSTRACT:
In a process for the cryogenic distillation of air in a distillation column system that contains at least one distillation column wherein the boil-up at the bottom of the distillation column producing the oxygen product is provided by condensing a stream whose nitrogen concentration is equal to or greater than that in the feed air stream, which comprises the steps of: (a) generating work energy which is in excess of the overall refrigeration demand of the distillation column system by at least one of the following three methods: (1) work expanding a first process stream with nitrogen content equal to or greater than that in the feed air and then condensing at least a portion of the expanded stream by latent heat exchange with at least one of the two liquids: (i) a liquid at an intermediate height in the distillation column producing oxygen product and (ii) one of the liquid feeds to this distillation column having an oxygen concentration equal to or preferably greater than the concentration of oxygen in the feed air; (2) condensing at least a second process stream with nitrogen content equal to or greater than that in the feed air by latent heat exchange with at least a portion of an oxygen-enriched liquid stream which has oxygen concentration equal to or preferably greater than the concentration of oxygen in the feed air and which is also at a pressure greater than the pressure of the distillation column producing oxygen product, and after vaporization of at least a portion of oxygen-enriched liquid into a vapor fraction due to latent heat exchange, work expanding at least a portion of the resulting vapor stream; and (3) work expanding a fraction of the feed air; (b) using the work which is generated in excess of the refrigeration need of the distillation column system to cold compress a process stream at a temperature lower than the ambient temperature.

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