L'air Liquide, Soci&#xe9;t&#xe9; Anonyme Pour L'etude Et L'exploitation Des Proc&#xe9;d&#xe9;s Georges Claude

L'air Liquide, Societe Anonyme a Directoire Et Conseil De Surveillance Pour L'etude Et L'exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude

Lurgi Gmbh

Frederic Judas

Patrick Le Bot

Emmanuel Garnier

Matthias Mueller-Hagedorn

Daniel Gourdain

Herve Le Bihan

Katja Bartels

Michael Kress

Ganesh Arumugam

Volker Deisinger

Nicolás Spiegl

For producing synthesis gas by autothermal reformation of gaseous, liquid and/or solid fuels, the fuel is reacted with an oxidizing agent in a reaction space at a pressure of 10 to 120 bar and a reaction space temperature of 800 to 2,000&#xb0; C. to obtain synthesis gas, wherein the oxidizing agent is introduced centrally in the upper region of the reaction space and wherein a flame is formed in the reaction space. The oxidizing agent is introduced into the reaction space separate from the fuel.

Process and reactor for producing synthesis gas

The invention relates to equipment for separating air by cryogenic distillation, including: a double air separation column; an exchange line (); a hot air supercharger (CI) and a cold air supercharger (C); a first turbine (TI) and a second turbine (T), each of which is coupled to one of the superchargers; means for bringing all the air to a high pressure that is greater than the mean pressure; means for purifying the air at said high pressure; means for dividing the purified air into two fractions and sending one fraction thereof to the hot air supercharger and one fraction to the cold air supercharger after cooling in the exchange line; means for feeding the second air fraction from the cold air supercharger back into the exchange line; means for sending at least one pressurized liquid from one of the columns into the exchange line; a valve (); means for sending the non-supercharged air, purified at a high pressure, to the exchange line, so as to be cooled therein, and then to the valve; and means for sending the air, expanded in the valve, to be distilled and/or to the atmosphere.

Method and apparatus for separating air by cryogenic distillation

A process and an apparatus for separating air by cryogenic distillation. The apparatus has a medium pressure column thermally coupled to a low pressure column. Compressed and purified air is cooled to cryogenic temperature in an exchanger, and sent at least partly to the medium pressure column. Streams enriched in oxygen and nitrogen are sent from the medium pressure column to the low pressure column and, streams enriched in nitrogen and oxygen are removed from the low pressure.

Process for separating air by cryogenic distillation and installation for implementing this process

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Oberursel, Germany

Frederic Judas