Purpose of large air separation unit

In the air separation unit, the function of air cooling column is to reduce the temperature of air compressed by air compressor. Air cooling column is a kind of hybrid heat exchange equipment. In order to increase the heat transfer area, make the cooling water fully contact with the air and mix completely to enhance the heat transfer effect, the air cooling column usually adopts several structural forms such as packed column, sieve plate column or hollow spray column.

In the temperature of the forward air into the cooler (hot end temperature, related to the cooling effect of the last cooler of the air compressor or nitrogen water precooler) and the temperature of the return air into the cooler (cold end temperature, under the condition that the temperature of the heat exchanger such as the outlet supercooler and the liquid purifier is not changed, the temperature difference between the thermal end and the temperature difference between the cold end of the refrigerator (both refers to the difference between the temperature of the forward air and the reflow gas participating in the switching) is interdependent. If the hot end temperature difference, cold end temperature difference will is too small; the hot end temperature difference is too small, cold end temperature difference will is too large. This is decided by the cooling balance of the positive and return gas of the cooler. When the ratio of return flow to positive flow volume is larger than...