EP0531182A1 - Verfahren und Einrichtung zur Luftdestillation und die Verwendung bei der Zuführung von Gas in Stahlwerken - Google Patents

Verfahren und Einrichtung zur Luftdestillation und die Verwendung bei der Zuführung von Gas in Stahlwerken Download PDF

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EP0531182A1
EP0531182A1 EP92402246A EP92402246A EP0531182A1 EP 0531182 A1 EP0531182 A1 EP 0531182A1 EP 92402246 A EP92402246 A EP 92402246A EP 92402246 A EP92402246 A EP 92402246A EP 0531182 A1 EP0531182 A1 EP 0531182A1
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  • the present invention relates to the air distillation technique.
  • coal gasification gasification of petroleum residues, direct reduction-smelting of iron ore, injection of coal into blast furnaces, metallurgy of non-ferrous metals, etc.
  • the object of the invention is to satisfy such needs economically, that is to say to allow, with a relatively low investment and energy consumption, the production of impure oxygen at a selected purity and pressure. at will and, if necessary, the production of practically pure oxygen.
  • the subject of the invention is a process for the distillation of air by means of a double distillation column coupled to a mixing column, in which the mixing column is supplied to the tank with an auxiliary gas consisting of a mixture of air gases, and at the top with a liquid richer in oxygen than the auxiliary gas, taken from the lower part of the low pressure column, and impure oxygen is drawn off at the top of the mixing column constituting a production gas, where the auxiliary gas and the liquid supplying the mixing column are compressed at the same pressure different from that of the medium pressure column, typically higher than the latter, advantageously at least 2 ⁇ 105 Pa.
  • Said liquid can be the bottom liquid of the low pressure column, in particular oxygen practically without nitrogen, or else it can be drawn off a few trays above the bottom of the low pressure column.
  • the invention also relates to an air distillation installation intended for the implementation of the process defined above, of the type comprising a double distillation column, a mixing column, a heat exchange line, a source an auxiliary gas consisting of a mixture of air gases, means for introducing the auxiliary gas at the base of the mixing column, means for withdrawing a liquid richer in oxygen than the auxiliary gas in the part bottom of the low pressure column, means for pumping this liquid and for introducing it at the top of the mixing column, and means for withdrawing impure oxygen at the head of the mixing column as gas for producing the installation, characterized in that it comprises means for compressing the auxiliary gas to a determined pressure different from that of the medium pressure column, passages for this compressed auxiliary gas provided in the line heat exchange and in that the pumping means bring the liquid to said determined pressure.
  • the invention also relates to the application of the process defined above to the supply of gas to a steelworks, said impure oxygen being produced under the pressure of the blast furnace and being sent to the latter.
  • said liquid is oxygen practically without nitrogen
  • said oxygen is sent practically without nitrogen to the converters of the steelworks.
  • FIGS. 1 to 3 schematically represent three embodiments of the air distillation installation according to the invention.
  • the air distillation installation shown in FIG. 1 is intended to produce impure oxygen, for example having a purity of 80 to 97% and preferably 85 to 95%, under a determined pressure P clearly different from 6 x 105 Pa abs., Per example under 2 to 5 x 105 Pa or advantageously under a pressure higher by at least 2 x 105 Pa and possibly up to around 30 x 105 Pa, preferably between 8 x 105 Pa and 15 x 105 Pa.
  • the installation essentially comprises a heat exchange line 1, a double distillation column 2 itself comprising a medium pressure column 3, a low pressure column 4 and a main condenser-vaporizer 5, and a mixing column 6. Columns 3 and 4 typically operate at approximately 6 x 105 Pa and approximately 1 x 105 Pa, respectively.
  • a mixing column is a column which has the same structure as a distillation column but which is used to mix in a manner close to reversibility a relatively volatile gas, introduced at its base, and a less volatile liquid, introduced at its top.
  • Such a mixture produces refrigerating energy and therefore makes it possible to reduce the energy consumption linked to the distillation.
  • this mixture is used, moreover, to directly produce impure oxygen under the pressure P, as will be described below.
  • the air to be separated by distillation, compressed to 6 x 105 Pa and suitably purified, is conveyed to the base of the medium pressure column 3 by a pipe 7. Most of this air is cooled in the exchange line 1 and introduced at the base of the medium pressure column 3, and the rest, boosted at 8 then cooled, is expanded at low pressure in a turbine 9 coupled to the booster 8, then blown at an intermediate point of the low pressure column 4. From “rich liquid” (oxygen-enriched air), taken from the tank of column 3 is, after expansion in an expansion valve 10, introduced into column 4, approximately at the point of air blowing.
  • Liquid oxygen is withdrawn from the tank of column 4, carried by a pump 13 at a pressure P1, slightly higher than the above-mentioned pressure P to take account of the losses load (P1-P less than 1 x 105 Pa), and introduced at the top of column 6.
  • P1 is therefore advantageously between 8 x 105 Pa and 30 x 105 Pa, preferably between 8 x 105 Pa and 16 x 105 Pa.
  • Auxiliary air, compressed at the same pressure P1 by an auxiliary compressor 14 and cooled in the exchange line 1, is introduced at the base of the mixing column 6.
  • FIG. 1 also shows auxiliary heat exchangers 19, 20, 21 ensuring the recovery of the cold available in the fluids circulating in the installation.
  • the pressure P of the impure oxygen produced can be chosen as desired.
  • the adjustment of the double column makes it possible to obtain various degrees of purity for this gas.
  • Another way of determining this degree of purity consists, as shown in FIG. 2, of choosing the level of sampling, in the low pressure column 4, of the liquid feeding the column 6, for example by leaving a few trays of distillation between the point and the column 4 tank.
  • the installation can produce, simultaneously with the impure oxygen of column 6, oxygen at a different purity and at a pressure, in particular oxygen roughly pure, by drawing off at the bottom of column 4.
  • This oxygen can be supplied in gaseous form, via a line 22 crossing the exchange line 1, under the low pressure of the low pressure column 4 or under pressure, in particular by pumping the liquid at 23 before it warms up in the exchange line; it can also be liquefied and sent to storage 24.
  • FIG. 3 differs from that of FIG. 2 in that it further comprises a column 25 for producing impure argon coupled, in a conventional manner, to the low pressure column 4.
  • the fact that the impure oxygen is produced not by the low pressure column 4 but by the mixing column 6 makes it possible to produce impure oxygen containing very little argon, which leaves the possibility of producing, in addition to argon, provided of course that the liquid oxygen withdrawn and pumped at 13 has sufficient purity, in particular at least equal to 98%.
  • the air auxiliary to the pressure P1 may be suitably purified atmospheric air, but also come from an annex process comprising an air compressor. It may for example be air taken from the inlet of a gas turbine and the pressure of which may be adjusted by means of a booster or an expansion turbine. More generally, it is possible to use, to feed the base of the mixing column 6, a mixture of air gases less rich in oxygen than the liquid taken from the lower part of the low pressure column, in particular impure nitrogen originating possibly from the installation itself.
  • the invention makes it possible to simultaneously produce, under particularly economical conditions of investment and energy consumption, pure or nearly pure oxygen, impure oxygen and argon.
  • the oxygen produced by column 4 is practically devoid of nitrogen and can therefore be used in the converters of a steelworks.
  • the installation in the form of FIG. 2, thus makes it possible to supply both these converters with pure oxygen and the blast furnace of the steelworks with impure oxygen at the pressure of the blast furnace; in its form in FIG. 3, the installation can also supply the steelworks with argon.

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