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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 1990
Filed:
May. 12, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ravi Prasad, East Amherst, NY (US);
Oscar W Haas, Cheektowaga, NY (US);
Harry Cheung, Buffalo, NY (US);
Assignee:
Union Carbide Corporation, Danbury, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
62 24 ; 55 16 ; 62 17 ;
Abstract
Feed air to a prepurifier adsorption system/cryogenic air separation system for dry, high purity nitrogen and/or oxygen production is dried in a membrane dryer preferably characterized by a countercurrent flow path. Drying is enhanced by the use of purge gas on the permeate side of the membrane dryer, which adsorption system or cryogenic air separation system product or waste gas, dried feed air or ambient air being used as purge gas.