摘要:
A method of producing gaseous oxygen in accordance with a variable demand cycle in which pumped liquid oxygen from a double column air separation unit is vaporized within a mixing column. During low demand phases, excess liquid oxygen is stored within a storage tank and used to augment the liquid oxygen to vaporized during the high demand phase. Reflux to the lower pressure column of the air separation unit is kept constant by storing liquid with column bottoms produced within the mixing column during the high demand phase for use in the low demand phase when less liquid oxygen is vaporized and therefore less column bottoms is produced in the mixing column.
摘要:
For the low temperature fractionation of air with variable oxygen production, compressed, prepurified, and cooled air (conduit 5) is initially fractionated in the high pressure stage 10 of a two-stage rectification 9. The thus-produced bottom liquid is further separated in the low pressure stage 11. Liquid nitrogen 14 from the high pressure stage 10 and liquid oxygen from the low pressure stage 11 can be stored intermediarily in tanks 35 and 32. An enriched liquid air tank 40 is additionally provided in order to store bottom liquid 12 from the high pressure stage 10. In case of increased oxygen production, the internal rate of flow in the high pressure stage 10 can be raised; and simultaneously the internal rate of flow in the low pressure stage 11 and the reflux ratios in both rectifying stages 10, 11 can be maintained constant. The constant reflux ratio in the low pressure column permits the argon bubble concentration to remain high, permitting a substantially maximum rate of separation of the argon in a crude argon column.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a process for operating at least one air separation unit and an oxygen-rich gas consumer, comprising a carbon fuel combustion unit or a gasification unit, the oxygen-rich gas consumer being capable of generating electricity. The consumer is supplied with an oxygen-rich gas coming from the air separation unit or units.
摘要:
A cryogenic air separation system wherein product oxygen may be produced effectively at a higher production rate and at a lower production rate than the nominal production rate by employing a liquid oxygen storage tank and, in addition, an oxygen-enriched liquid storage tank operating in conjunction with the higher pressure column sump.
摘要:
A method of operation of a thermal power plant having an air separation system with a plurality of air storage unit (ASU) compressors and a liquid oxygen/liquid air (LOX/LA) storage facility for oxyfuel firing of fossil fuel and a power plant having a control system to perform the same are described. The method is characterized by the step of controlling the net power output of the plant in response to short term variations in grid demanded net plant output by dynamically adjusting the works power of the ASU compressors preferably in conjunction with co-ordinated changes in firing demand. The method is in particular a method to produce an improved primary and secondary response to transient changes in grid demand and to provide accurate response to load dispatch ramps.
摘要:
A process for producing variable gaseous nitrogen and variable gaseous oxygen by air distillation, during a period of high demand for gaseous nitrogen and for gaseous oxygen, liquid nitrogen is drawn off from a storage vessel, the liquid nitrogen is vaporized by heat exchange with a first flow of compressed, purified and cooled air, the vaporized nitrogen is sent to the customer and the first flow of liquefied air produced by the heat exchange is sent to a liquefied air storage vessel, liquid oxygen is drawn off from a storage vessel, the liquid oxygen is vaporized by heat exchange with a second flow of compressed, purified and cooled air, the vaporized oxygen is sent to the customer and the second flow of liquefied air is sent to the storage vessel.
摘要:
To meet the requirement of a variable demand of gaseous oxygen, a constant flow of liquid oxygen is sent from the double distillation column into a container, and a variable flow of liquid oxygen is withdrawn therefrom, which is thereafter vaporized in a heat exchanger by condensation of a corresponding flow of incoming air. The liquefied air is stored in a second container, from which a constant flow of liquefied air is sent into the double column.
摘要:
826,298. Cold separation of air. SOC. L'AIR LIQUIDE, SOC. ANON POUR L'ETUDE ET L'EXPLOITATION DES PROCEDES G. CLAUDE. Sept. 10, 1957 [Sept. 25, 1956], No. 28532/57. Class 8(2). In an air rectification process wherein liquid oxygen is withdrawn from the base of the low pressure section 8 of a conventional double column 6 irto a reservoir 20, and gaseous nitrogen is withdrawn through a duct 22 and used to cool and partly liquefy feed air traversing one or other of a pair of alternating regenerators 4A, 4B, extra refrigeration is supplied to column 8 by feeding liquid air at a constant rate from an external reservoir 61 which is itself supplied by a compressor 38 discharging through a purifier 39 and heat exchangers 31, 30 in countercurrent to liquid oxygen from reservoir 20 and also in countercurrent to an unliquefied portion of air leaving exchanger 31 after expansion in an engine 52. In a modification wherein the auxiliary air liquefaction plant is remote from the rectification plant, liquid oxygen is transported therefrom in a container and forced by one or both of a pair of pumps in parallel through the exchangers 30, 31 and when empty of liquid oxygen the container is filled with liquid air and returned to the rectification plant.
摘要:
A carbon fuel combustion process, employing an air gas separation unit, a combustion unit operating either with air or with an oxidizer leaner in nitrogen than air, coming from the air gas separation unit, and a unit for compressing and/or purifying the CO2 coming from the combustion flue gas, wherein the power consumed by the air gas separation unit and/or the flow of oxygen produced by the air gas separation unit and/or the capture of the CO2 coming from the combustion flue gas are variable over time is presented.
摘要:
A cryogenic process of supplying oxygen to a power generation plant including at least an air separation unit (9,11), a liquid oxygen tank (15) and an air derived component liquid tank (17), comprises: During a first period: feeding a first air stream to the air separation unit at a first flowrate, feeding liquid oxygen from the liquid oxygen tank to the air separation unit, recovering a gaseous oxygen stream with a higher flow than the liquid oxygen stream from the air separation unit, sending at least one air derived component liquid to at least one air derived component liquid tank. During a second period: feeding the at least one air derived component liquid stream from the at least one air component liquid tank to the air separation unit, extracting a liquid oxygen stream from the air separation unit to the liquid oxygen tank, recovering a gaseous oxygen stream from the air separation unit and increasing the flowrate of the first air stream, feeding the air separation unit to a value greater than the first flowrate.