Liquefied air separation FAQ

How to determine whether the air separation equipment oxygen generator cold enough?

In order to ensure the stable operation of the distillation column, the in and out material and its state of the distillation column needs to meet the material balance, component balance and energy balance. The main cooling liquid oxygen surface is an important indicator of whether the cooling capacity of the air separation plant is balanced or not. When the cooling loss of the unit is greater than the cooling capacity, the moisture content of the air entering and leaving the column (the liquid content in the saturated air) will be reduced, and the nitrogen to be condensate in main cooling needs to be condensed, the evaporation of liquid oxygen will also increase, and the surface of liquid oxygen will decrease. On the contrary, when the cooling capacity is greater than the cooling loss of the unit, the moisture content of the air entering the lower column will increase, and the amount of nitrogen to be condensed in the main cooling system will decrease, and the liquid oxygen surface wi

How to choose the form of drive for the compressor of a large air separation plant?

The lower and upper columns are the main equipment in the distillation system of cryogenic oxygen air separation plant. The lower column and the upper column separate the components of the mixture gas into different components with the required purity by using the different boiling points. The upper and lower columns are of cylindrical structure. The lower column is equipped with multi-layer sieve plates, and the sieve plate is equipped with overflow bucket. There is an overflow baffle with dense holes. The upper column is equipped with regular packing and liquid distributor. In the distillation process of the lower column, the liquid flows through each sieve plate one by one from top to bottom. Due to the effect of overflow weir, a certain height of liquid level is created on the pedal. When the gas passes through the small hole of sieve plate from bottom to top, it contacts with the liquid and produces bubbles, which increases the gas-liquid contact area and makes the heat and mass e

A user of DEAR air separation reflected that when the air separation plant was put into operation, a large liquid nitrogen storage tank was equipped for emergency backup when the air separation was stopped or export of liquid products. The value of oxygen content in nitrogen product is designed to be less than 3ppm (i.e., < 3 ×10-6) due to the high requirement of users for nitrogen purity. But in fact, the oxygen content of liquid nitrogen in the tanks had been found more than 5ppm. The substandard purity of liquid nitrogen not only affects the export of products, but also directly affects the emergency backup of liquid nitrogen backup system.

What is the role of centrifugal compressors in air separation plants?

Liquid air separation equipment is an air separation device that directly produces liquid oxygen, nitrogen and other liquid products. Some liquid air separation equipment not only produces liquid products, but also produces a small amount of gas products.

What are the types of water cooling towers for air separation equipment?

Why is the majority of the insulation materials filled in the insulation box of the air separation equipment made of pearl sand?

Expanders in Air Separation Plants

Due to the large demand for cryogenic liquid of the market, and in order to ensure the normal operation of the production line when the air separation plant stops abnormally or the air supply is interrupted due to failure, the air separation users with cryogenic liquid production capacity will maximize the production and storage of liquid products while ensuring that the gas production is not affected, and try their best to improve the production of liquid products.

In order to realize the separation of oxygen and nitrogen in the air separation plant, the first thing is to make the air liquefaction, which must try to reduce the air temperature to the liquefaction temperature. The absolute pressure of the lower tower of the air separation tower is about 0.6MPa. Under this pressure, the temperature at which the air begins to liquefaction is about-172 ℃. Therefore, in order to make the air liquefaction, there must be a cold fluid with lower temperature to cool the air. As we know, the air separation plant is cooled by the inflated low temperature air. If the Air wants to expand, it needs to be compressed first, and the compression needs to consume energy. Air expansion can be through throttling expansion or expansion machine expansion. However, the temperature drop of this kind of expansion is limited. For high pressure air of 20MPa ℃ and 30℃, the temperature drop is only 32℃ when throttling to 0.1MPa. In the turbine expander, the maximum temperat...