CA2226696A1 - Vacuum/pressure swing adsorption (vpsa) method for production of an oxygen enriched gas - Google Patents

Vacuum/pressure swing adsorption (vpsa) method for production of an oxygen enriched gas

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CA2226696A1
CA2226696A1 CA002226696A CA2226696A CA2226696A1 CA 2226696 A1 CA2226696 A1 CA 2226696A1 CA 002226696 A CA002226696 A CA 002226696A CA 2226696 A CA2226696 A CA 2226696A CA 2226696 A1 CA2226696 A1 CA 2226696A1
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Frederick Wells Leavitt
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01D—SEPARATION
    • B01D53/00—Separation of gases or vapours; Recovering vapours of volatile solvents from gases; Chemical or biological purification of waste gases, e.g. engine exhaust gases, smoke, fumes, flue gases, aerosols
    • B01D53/02—Separation of gases or vapours; Recovering vapours of volatile solvents from gases; Chemical or biological purification of waste gases, e.g. engine exhaust gases, smoke, fumes, flue gases, aerosols by adsorption, e.g. preparative gas chromatography
    • B01D53/04—Separation of gases or vapours; Recovering vapours of volatile solvents from gases; Chemical or biological purification of waste gases, e.g. engine exhaust gases, smoke, fumes, flue gases, aerosols by adsorption, e.g. preparative gas chromatography with stationary adsorbents
    • B01D53/047—Pressure swing adsorption
    • B01D53/0476—Vacuum pressure swing adsorption
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01D—SEPARATION
    • B01D53/00—Separation of gases or vapours; Recovering vapours of volatile solvents from gases; Chemical or biological purification of waste gases, e.g. engine exhaust gases, smoke, fumes, flue gases, aerosols
    • B01D53/02—Separation of gases or vapours; Recovering vapours of volatile solvents from gases; Chemical or biological purification of waste gases, e.g. engine exhaust gases, smoke, fumes, flue gases, aerosols by adsorption, e.g. preparative gas chromatography
    • B01D53/04—Separation of gases or vapours; Recovering vapours of volatile solvents from gases; Chemical or biological purification of waste gases, e.g. engine exhaust gases, smoke, fumes, flue gases, aerosols by adsorption, e.g. preparative gas chromatography with stationary adsorbents
    • B01D53/047—Pressure swing adsorption
    • B01D53/053—Pressure swing adsorption with storage or buffer vessel
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01D—SEPARATION
    • B01D2256/00—Main component in the product gas stream after treatment
    • B01D2256/10—Nitrogen
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01D—SEPARATION
    • B01D2257/00—Components to be removed
    • B01D2257/10—Single element gases other than halogens
    • B01D2257/102—Nitrogen
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01D—SEPARATION
    • B01D2259/00—Type of treatment
    • B01D2259/40—Further details for adsorption processes and devices
    • B01D2259/401—Further details for adsorption processes and devices using a single bed
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01D—SEPARATION
    • B01D2259/00—Type of treatment
    • B01D2259/40—Further details for adsorption processes and devices
    • B01D2259/402—Further details for adsorption processes and devices using two beds

Abstract

A vacuum/pressure swing adsorption method for extracting a more preferred gas from a feed mixture of the more preferred gas and a less preferred gas, employs an adsorbent bed which, on an equilibrium basis, exhibits a selective adsorption preference for the more preferred gas. The method comprises the steps of: pressurizing the adsorbent bed from a medium pressure to a high pressure with a flow of the feed mixture to enable the adsorbent bed to adsorb the more preferred gas. Void gas is fed from the adsorbent bed during the pressurizing to a first storage tank. A
further flow of the void gas is fed into a second storage tank, while bringing the adsorbent bed to a low pressure.
At about the low pressure, the more preferred gas is desorbed from the adsorbent bed, while the void gas is fed to the adsorbent bed from the second storage tank. The more preferred gas, which is desorbed, provides a product output. Then the void gas is fed from the first storage tank to pressurize the adsorbent bed to about the intermediate pressure and the process is repeated. When the process is used to produce oxygen, the key is the use of desorption purge at a nearly constant pressure that is selected to produce a steady stream of low purity oxygen (30% to 60%), at a pressure in the range of 60 kPa to 20 kPa using oxygen-selective adsorbents. A further important feature of the invention is the use of an adsorbent that is appropriately oxygen-selective and is based on equilibrium selectivity, instead of rate selectivity.
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