L'air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour L'etude Et L'exploitation Des

Jean-Louis Girault

Bernard Saulnier

Emmanuel Garnier

Didier Magnet

Jean-Pierre Tranier

Philippe Mazieres

Bernard Darredeau

Philippe Fraysse

Denis Chretien

Corinne Garot

Francois Camberlein

Air is supplied to an air separation apparatus via a heat exchanger in which the entering air is cooled against an air gas separated in the separation apparatus. The air is first compressed in an adiabatic compressor. The air gas separated in the separation apparatus is humidified after it leaves the separation apparatus but before it reaches the heat exchanger.

Process and installation for the supply of an apparatus for separating

In a process for compressing a gas, associated with a unit (5) for separating a gas mixture, the compressor (1, 2, 7) comprises a number of stages less than that which would be necessary to produce an optimal compressor of the isothermal type compressing the same flow rate of the gas to the same pressure. The compressor may compress the gas mixture to be separated or a product of the separation.

Process for compressing a gas associated with a unit for separating a

According to this process: the medium pressure column is operated under a pressure which is higher than six bars and is preferably at least equal to about 9 bars absolute; a first vaporization gas which is less volatile than the nitrogen from the top of the medium pressure column is condensed in the vat condenser of the low pressure column; and nitrogen from the top of the medium pressure column is condensed, it is thereafter sent under reflux to the top of the medium pressure column, at a level of the low pressure column located above said vat condenser application to apparatuses for air distillation with double column associated with a gas turbine.

Process and apparatus for the production of impure oxygen

Process for the operation of a gas turbine group (1) producing energy by combustion of a gaseous fuel (24) with a mixture of air gas. There is interconnected with the group (1) an air gas separation unit (7) producing at least two air gases (9; 10-13). The operating conditions of the turbine (3) of the group are maintained similar to those of maximum power production by selecting, with the aid of the separation unit (7), the parameters of the mixture of air gas. The combined assembly for the production of energy and at least one air gas comprises a gas turbine group (1), comprising a first compressor (2) coupled to a turbine (3) and a combustion circuit (5) between the outlet of the first compressor (2) and the inlet of the turbine (3); an air separation unit (7) comprising a second air compressor (14) connected to an air supply inlet (8) of the unit, an impure nitrogen outlet (9) and at least one other outlet (10-13) for an air gas; and structure (25, 26; 20, 23) selectively to connect the air inlet (8) to the outlet of the first compressor (2) or the impure nitrogen outlet (9) to the combustion circuit (5).

Process for the operation of a gas turbine group and the production of

The apparatus is of the type having a double column and a mixing column. The latter is fed at the bottom portion with auxiliary air that is compressed at a pressure different from that of the mean pressure column, and at the top by means of a liquid withdrawn from the bottom of the low pressure column and pumped at the same pressure as the auxiliary air. Impure oxygen is withdrawn at the top of the mixing column as production gas, and substantially pure oxygen is produced at the bottom of the low pressure column.

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Jean-Louis Girault