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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 08, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
William Paul Sweeny, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Zbigniew Tadeusz Fidkowski, Macungie, PA (US);
Assignee:
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
62640 ; 62925 ;
Abstract
Method and apparatus for recovering xenon or a mixture of xenon and krypton from air processed in a cryogenic air separation plant. An oxygen rich stream containing xenon and or krypton and xenon together with other trace impurities is subjected to a carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide removal step followed by concentration of xenon and or a mixture of krypton and xenon in a liquid fraction separated from an oxygen enriched vapor and vaporizing and recovering a xenon and or krypton and xenon mixture enriched vapor.