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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2022
Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno, 's-Gravenhage, NL;
Jurriaan Boon, 's-Gravenhage, NL;
Vladimir Dikic, 's-Gravenhage, NL;
Marija Saric, 's-Gravenhage, NL;
Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO, 's-Gravenhage, NL;
Abstract
The invention provides the use of a clearing gas in the separation of a mixture comprising a light and a heavy component that are difficult to separate. The invention further concerns a process for such a separation, comprising (a) providing a product mixture containing at least a light component and a heavy component, wherein a binary system of the light component and the heavy component has a Henry's law constant of at least 0.001 mol mPa, and the boiling point of the light component is at least 30° C. higher than the boiling point of the heavy component, determined at ambient pressure; (b) subjecting the product mixture to a distillation step, wherein the product mixture is heated in a distillation column to a distillation temperature at a distillation pressure; (c) feeding a clearing gas at a location below the feed point of the product mixture; (d) collecting at the top of the distillation column a product gas containing the light component and the clearing gas; (e) collecting at the bottom of the distillation column a product liquid containing the heavy component.