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Walter Scholz

Hans Becker

Heinz Bauer

Gerhard Ranke

Freimut Marold

Wolfgang Foerg

Alexej V Frolov

Alexander I Grizenko

Boris G Bergo

In a process proposed for purification of a gas stream at elevated pressure by nitrogen scrubbing, the gas stream to be purified and the nitrogen scrubbing stream are initially cooled to low temperatures. The gas stream is then scrubbed with liquid nitrogen and the purified gas stream is mixed with cooled, high-pressure nitrogen to form a mixture in which nitrogen accumulates partly as a liquid phase. The mixture thus formed is then heated and the liquid nitrogen contained therein is evaporated. Prior to scrubbing, either the nitrogen scrubbing stream itself or a partial stream of the nitrogen scrubbing stream or another process stream under a pressure lower than the working pressure of the nitrogen scrubbing step is at least partly condensed and then pumped to a higher pressure. The condensation of this low-pressure stream provides a reduction in the temperature difference at the cold end of the heat exchangers upstream of the scrubbing step resulting in the reduction of the energy requirements of the process.

Process for purification of a gas stream by a nitrogen scrubbing

For the low-temperature separation of a gaseous mixture containing essentially hydrogen, C.sub.1+ -hydrocarbons, and carbon monoxide, resulting in a purified gaseous mixture to be processed, after the low-temperature separation, in methanol synthesis, the gaseous mixture is cooled and subsequently fed to a scrubbing column to scrub out the C.sub.1+ -hydrocarbons with liquid CO. A product containing essentially hydrogen and carbon monoxide is obtained at the head of the scrubbing column. The resultant liquid CO, loaded essentially with the C.sub.1+ -hydrocarbons, is withdrawn as the sump product from the column and introduced into a C.sub.1+ -CO separating column.

Low temperature separation of gaseous mixture for methanol synthesis

A method for the recovery of a methane-rich natural gas from a natural gas containing, apart from methane, also hydrogen sulfide, carbondioxide, higher hydrocarbons and, in most cases, organosulfur compounds. According to the invention a hydrocarbon fraction of C.sub.4 hydrocarbons and higher is naturally removed from the natural gas which is then subjected to a selective scrubbing for the removal of hydrogen sulfide with a regeneratable extraction, of scrubbing liquid. Next a C.sub.3 fraction is removed, the remaining gas being scrubbed with a second regeneratable washing agent, for the removal of carbondioxide to leave the methane-rich gas.

Method of treating natural gas to obtain a methane rich fuel gas

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Walter Scholz