Process for the mixed production of high and low purity oxygen
US5396773A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 7, 1994 |
| Grant date | Mar 14, 1995 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 7, 2014 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S62/94
- WIPO fieldChemical engineering
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A process for simultaneously providing both high and low purity oxygen from a double column, double reboiler apparatus, the double columns being high and low pressure columns, the low pressure column having a lower and upper reboiler with an intermediate outlet in between, which process entails extracting a low purity oxygen stream at the intermediate outlet and a high purity liquid oxygen stream from a bottom portion of the low pressure column.
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