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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 1989
Filed:
Oct. 06, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert M Thorogood, Macungie, PA (US);
Thomas M Roden, Macungie, PA (US);
Assignee:
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
62 32 ; 62 39 ; 62 42 ; 62 44 ;
Abstract
The present invention is an improved process for the production of nitrogen and oxygen that uses a double distillation column arrangement. The improvement to the process is the recycling of at least a portion of the oxygen-enriched waste stream to the bottom of the high pressure column. As a result of this improvement, the process is capable of making a nitrogen product with high purity (e.g., 5 ppm oxygen product) at high pressures (e.g., 40 to 150 psia) while simultaneously producing high purity oxygen (e.g., 99.6% oxygen). Nitrogen is produced only from the high pressure column.