The main factors affecting the packing capacity of liquid separation plants

The liquid air separation plant uses circulating nitrogen to absorb the cold end of LNG, thus replacing the traditional hot and cold end expanders of the liquid air separation plant. The liquid air separation plant energy consumption is reduced by using glycol aqueous solution closed circuit to absorb the cold at the high temperature end of LNG, thus replacing the traditional cool water tower with lower cooling water temperature and less water consumption. The key of the liquid air separation pl...

Expander is a kind of mechanical equipment that uses compressed gas to expand and depressurize, so that the gas temperature can be reduced to obtain the cooling capacity. In the air separation unit, the expander is an important equipment to provide cooling capacity for the air separation unit, and its cooling capacity accounts for 80% - 90% of the cooling capacity of the air separation unit. The main structural forms of expander are piston type and turbine type. The piston expander is suitable for air separation process with large pressure drop and small flow rate because of its convenient manufacture and low speed. Turbine type has the characteristics of large gas flow, high efficiency, stable and reliable operation and no friction parts. Due to the low pressure air separation process used in large air separation units, the pressure drop and unit cooling capacity are very small, and because the expansion air is sent to the upper column for rectification, the expander is requi