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US 5,881,570 AGranted
Cryogenic rectification apparatus for producing high purity oxygen or low purity oxygen
AssigneePraxair Technology, Inc.
InventorsRaymond Francis Drnevich, Ravindra Fulchand Pahade, Minish Mahendra Shah
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Abstract
A cryogenic rectification plant comprising a double column and a side column having a bottom reboiler wherein feed air is passed into the double column by way of the bottom reboiler and an auxiliary compressor is connected in parallel with the feed air line.
Claims8
A cryogenic rectification apparatus for producing high purity oxygen or low purity oxygen comprising:
- (A) a double column comprising a high pressure column and a low pressure column;
- (B) a side column having a bottom reboiler;
- (C) a primary heat exchanger, and a feed line for passing feed air to the primary heat exchanger;
- (D) an auxiliary compressor having an input and an output, means for passing feed air from the feed line to the auxiliary compressor input, and means for passing feed air from the auxiliary compressor output to the feed line;
- (E) means for passing feed air from the primary heat exchanger to the bottom reboiler, and means for passing feed air from the bottom reboiler to the high pressure column;
- (F) means for passing fluid from the low pressure column to the side column;
- (G) means for passing product from the side column to the primary heat exchanger;
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- (H) means for recovering product high purity or low purity oxygen from the primary heat exchanger.
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