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    The document summarizes an air separation unit that separates air into its primary components - nitrogen, oxygen, and argon. The process involves compressing air and cooling it in heat exchangers before separating the components in distillation columns. Nitrogen is separated first at 6 bar, then oxygen is separated at 1.2 bar. A side rectifier further separates argon from the oxygen stream. The process yields high purity nitrogen, oxygen, and argon gases and liquids.

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    Air Separation Unit

    Priyam Nayak
    Department of Chemical Engineering
    Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai
    Email: [email protected]

    Background & Description:


    Air Separation Process is an integration of separation columns and heat exchanger. The
    process is driven by compressing air at inlet of the unit. Compressed air is cooled and partially
    liquefied against leaving product streams. In the first column, nitrogen is separated at a pressure of
    6 bar and then condensed against boiling oxygen at a pressure around 1.2 bar. In the high pressure
    column, liquid bottom product is rich in oxygen. The rich liquid is cooled using Joule-Thomson
    effect to run the condenser of a side rectifier that separates Argon from Oxygen. It is fed with
    vapour side draw from low pressure column. A part of air leaves the unit as waste stream due to the
    additional requirement of cooling which is obtained using Joule-Thomson effect in an expander ,
    which feeds compressed air directly to the low pressure column. Gaseous Oxygen and Nitrogen,
    liquid Argon are obtained as products. Purity of Gaseous Oxygen ranges from 97.5 to 99.5 %.
    Peng-Robinson Model was used to solve the flowsheet with binary interaction parameters as N2/O2
    = -0.0133, N2/Ar = -0.0026, O2/Ar = 0.0089.
    The liquid stream from the Argon Column is fed back to the low pressure column. This serves as
    tear stream for the flowsheet. Following heat integrations in the Air Separation Unit is shown:
    cooling of feed against products stream in main heat exchanger, Low Pressure condenser against
    High Pressure reboiler, condensation of Argon against evaporization of rich liquid.
    In the flowsheet, the purity of liquid argon and gaseous oxygen obtained are less than what they
    normally are. This is due to limit in number of stages in the separation column used. If the Argon
    Column is equipped enough stages along with structured packings, it is possible to reduce the
    impurities to less than 1 ppm.
    Results
    Gas N2 Gas O2 Waste Gases S-26 Air
    Temperature (C) 25 25 25 -184.2191 30
    Pressure (bar) 1.1 1.1 1.1195652 1.2 1.01325
    Mass Flow (kg/s) 13.718853 17.791249 68.114858 0.37334466 100
    Molar Flow (kmol/h) 1762.9708 1994.1474 8640 33.644763 12431.006

    Molar Fraction
    (Mixture) / Nitrogen 0.99999966 1.14E-16 0.91992284 2.16E-08 0.7812

    Mass Flow (Mixture) /


    Nitrogen (kg/s) 13.718847 1.77E-15 61.849724 5.65E-09 75.56856

    Molar Fraction
    (Mixture) / Oxygen 1.66E-08 0.985 0.07402818 7.00E-07 0.2095

    Mass Flow (Mixture) /


    Oxygen (kg/s) 2.59E-07 17.459323 5.6851865 2.09E-07 23.148573
    Molar Fraction
    (Mixture) / Argon 3.24E-07 0.015 0.006048979 0.99999928 0.0093
    Mass Flow (Mixture) /
    Argon (kg/s) 6.34E-06 0.33192584 0.57994708 0.37334445 1.2828674

    References
    Flowsheet Source: www.chemsep.com/downloads/data/CScasebook_ASU.png

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