Process for producing oxygen-enriched gas

Details Process for producing oxygen-enriched gas Process for producing oxygen-enriched gas

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B01D 53/04 (2006.01) C01B 13/02 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 1282713

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE An oxygen-enriched gas having a oxygen con- centration of, for example, 93% by volume, is produced at a high oxygen recovery rate from a gas mixture containing oxygen and nitrogen as main gas components by pressure swing adsorption, using a set of three adsorption columns, each packed with a zeolite molecular sieve as an adsorbent through a cyclic operation of adsorption under a pressure of from atmospheric pressure to 5,000 mm H2O and desorption under a vacuum pressure down to a final pressure of 150 mm Hg abs., particularly by passing the gas mixture through a first adsorption column, thereby conducting adsorption of substantially other gas components except the oxygen gas, while bringing a third adsorption column which has completed adsorption into a vacuum pressure through the inlet thereof, thereby conducting desorption of the adsorbed gas components in the third adsorption column and withdrawing the resulting desorbed gas components through the inlet thereof in the direction opposite to the inflow direction of the gas mixture for adsorption, while connecting the outlet of the third adsorption column to the outlet of a second adsorption column which has completed desorption at the same time as the initial stage of the desorption of the third adsorption column, thereby transferring the oxygen-enriched gas remaining in the third adsorption column therefrom to the second adsorption column, thereby recovering the remaining oxygen-enriched gas from the third adsorption column; discontinuing the remaining gas transfer before the pressure of the third adsorption column becomes equal to that of the second adsorption column, while continuing the desorption of the third adsorption column through the inlet thereof; initiating filling of a part of the product oxygen- enriched gas into the second adsorption column through the outlet thereof at the discontinuation of the remaining gas transfer, and repeating the foregoing cyclic operations one adsorption column to another successively.

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