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Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2014

Filed:

Mar. 11, 2011
Applicants:

Fredric Samuel Russ, Humble, TX (US);

George Frederick Frey, Houston, TX (US);

Charles Martin Mitchell, Baytown, TX (US);

Paul William Plummer, Humble, TX (US);

Inventors:

Fredric Samuel Russ, Humble, TX (US);

George Frederick Frey, Houston, TX (US);

Charles Martin Mitchell, Baytown, TX (US);

Paul William Plummer, Humble, TX (US);

Assignee:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 47/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present embodiments are directed towards the cooling of a solvent of a gas treatment system using a fluid flow from an air separation unit. In one embodiment, a system is provided that includes an air separation unit. The air separation unit has an air inlet configured to receive an air flow, an oxygen outlet configured to output an oxygen flow, a nitrogen outlet configured to output a nitrogen flow and a cooling system configured to cool the air flow to enable separation of the air flow into the oxygen flow and the nitrogen flow, wherein the cooling system is configured to cool a first solvent of a first gas treatment system.


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