SEPARATION OF GASES
A process for separating a mixture of gases into a relatively condensable first component (14) and a relatively non condensable second component (29) is provided. The first component comprises one or more gases selected from the group consisting of carbon dioxide, carbonyl sulphide and hydrogen sulp...
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Zusammenfassung: | A process for separating a mixture of gases into a relatively condensable first component (14) and a relatively non condensable second component (29) is provided. The first component comprises one or more gases selected from the group consisting of carbon dioxide, carbonyl sulphide and hydrogen sulphide and the second component one or more gases selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, methane, ethane, carbon monoxide, nitrogen, oxygen and synthesis gas. The process itself comprises the following steps: . (a) compressing and cooling a mixture of said first and second components in at least one compressor (C1-C4) and at least one heat exchanger (E4, LNG100) to a temperature and elevated pressure at which the first components condense and a two-phase gas-liquid mixture is formed; . (b) separating the two phase mixture so formed into separate liquid first and gaseous second component fractions in a fractionation unit (F360, F150); . (c) extracting residual first component (20) from the separated gaseous second component fraction (23) by scrubbing the second component at elevated pressure with a solvent (e.g. methanol) in a scrubber (A3), . (d) warming and expanding the gaseous second component fraction using at least one heat exchanger (LNG100) to exchange heat with a process stream and at least one turbo-expander (EX1-EX4) capable of recovering mechanical work. The process described is highly energy efficient and is especially useful in hydrogen power plants, Integrated Gasification Combined Cycles (IGCC) and for sweetening sour natural gas.
L'invention porte sur un procédé pour séparer un mélange de gaz en un premier composant relativement condensable et un second composant relativement incondensable. Le premier composant comprend un ou plusieurs gaz choisis dans le groupe constitué par le dioxyde de carbone, le sulfure de carbonyle et le sulfure d'hydrogène et le second composant comprend un ou plusieurs gaz choisis dans le groupe composé de l'hydrogène, du méthane, de l'éthane, du monoxyde de carbone, de l'azote, de l'oxygène et des gaz de synthèse. Le processus lui-même comprend les étapes suivantes : (a) compression et refroidissement d'un mélange desdits premier et second composants dans au moins un compresseur et au moins un échangeur de chaleur jusqu'à une température et une pression élevée auxquelles les premiers composants se condensent, et un mélange gaz-liquide en deux phases est formé ; (b) division du mélange en deux phases ainsi formé e |
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