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EP0932006A1 - Installation combinée d'un four et d'un appareil de distillation d'air et procédé de mise en oeuvre - Google Patents

Installation combinée d'un four et d'un appareil de distillation d'air et procédé de mise en oeuvre Download PDF

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EP0932006A1
EP0932006A1 EP99400150A EP99400150A EP0932006A1 EP 0932006 A1 EP0932006 A1 EP 0932006A1 EP 99400150 A EP99400150 A EP 99400150A EP 99400150 A EP99400150 A EP 99400150A EP 0932006 A1 EP0932006 A1 EP 0932006A1
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  • the present invention relates to combined installations comprising at least one oven, typically a metal processing oven, supplied with compressed air, and at least one air distillation apparatus producing oxygen to enrich the air supplied to the oven, as well as the processes for implementing such combined installations.
  • document EP-A-0 531 182 provides for a separation complete air supply a) blast furnace, b) column medium pressure and c) of the mixing column using separate compression means to, in particular, allow production, in the mixing column, impure oxygen at high pressures or low, in an expensive arrangement in terms of investment and operating rotating machines and considering no synergy between these last.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide an installation combined and a method of implementing such an installation combined with extremely deep integration and allowing operating costs significantly reduced while offering flexibility in the selection of ranges Operating.
  • the method of implementing a combined installation is of the type comprising at least one oven supplied with air by at least one blower supplying air at a first pressure P 1 and oxygen by at least one air distillation apparatus comprising at least one medium pressure column supplied with air at least partially by the blower of the oven, and a mixing column supplying oxygen to the oven, and in which the column of the mixture is supplied with air by a compressor supplying air at a pressure P 2 greater than P 1 .
  • the column medium pressure is supplied only by compressed air supplied by the blower from the oven.
  • the middle column pressure is also supplied by compressed air supplied by at least one compressor stage on the same shaft line as the compressor feeding the mixing column.
  • the present invention also relates to a combined installation comprising at least one oven, at least one blower delivering in a line main compressed air connected to the oven, at least one distillation apparatus of air comprising at least one medium pressure column and one mixture having an oxygen outlet line opening into a downstream part from the main compressed air line, a bypass line from the line main compressed air supplying air to at least the middle column pressure, and at least one air compressor supplying pressurized air to at least the mixing column.
  • the distillation apparatus exploits part of the flow air from the differentiable blower due to the subsequent reinjection of oxygen in this air flow while making the most of the possibilities offered by the mixing column by selecting by choice of compressor - and inter-column liquid pump - the optimal oxygen pressure for reinjection into the blower wind.
  • Figures 1 and 2 are two embodiments of a combined installation according to the invention.
  • a treatment furnace of metal in this case a blast furnace F
  • an air distillation apparatus partner comprising essentially, in the examples shown, a line LE main exchange, a double DC column with a medium column pressure MP and a low pressure column BP, and a mixing column CM.
  • the oven F is supplied with air by a blower S discharging into a main compressed air line A with a large volume of air (typically greater than 100,000 Nm 3 / h) under a medium pressure P 1 not exceeding 5, 8 x 10 5 Pa, typically between 3 x 10 5 Pa and 5.5 x 10 5 Pa.
  • Line A can also supply, simultaneously or alternately, another metal treatment oven, for example an electric oven with the AOD process.
  • the medium pressure column MP is supplied, in a tank, with air substantially at the pressure P 1 for supplying the blower F by a line D derived from the main line A and successively passing through a cooling device R, a purification device E 1 , typically of the adsorption type, then the main exchange line LE.
  • the mixing column CM is, for its part, supplied with tank, air under pressure P 2 by a line L supplied with air under pressure by a dedicated compressor C driven by a motor M, the air supplied by this compressor C being purified in a second purification device E 2 , also typically of the adsorption type, before crossing the LE exchange line.
  • the pressure P 2 is chosen to be slightly higher than the pressure P 1 in line A to take account of the pressure drops in the air distillation apparatus, in the hot air / oxygen mixing devices downstream of line A and to optimize the regulation of this oxygen injection.
  • P 2 - P 1 is between 0.3 x 10 5 Pa and 4 x 10 5 Pa, advantageously between 0.5 x 10 5 Pa and 1.5 x 10 5 Pa.
  • part of the air flow in line D is diverted to the low pressure column BP by being turbinated in a turbine t serving in particular for keeping the apparatus cold.
  • the motor M for driving the compressor C supplying the mixing column CM is for example an electric motor advantageously exploiting the electrical energy produced on site by a cogeneration installation, or a turbine exploiting a pressurized fluid available on the site.
  • the turbine t is advantageously coupled to a booster c to overpress a compressed fluid from the installation, typically the flow of purified air in line L, in order to optimize the investment for the dedicated compressor C and / or the power supplied. by the motor M.
  • a line l is provided, provided with an expansion member, between the downstream parts of the lines D and L for send, at least temporarily, part of the flow in line L to the medium pressure column MP, thus complementing the flow taken in line A of the blower.
  • the compressor C delivering in line L compresses a flow of air derived, in a bypass line B, from line D supplying the medium pressure column MP, downstream of the purification device E 1 .
  • an additional air flow substantially at the pressure P 1 , is introduced into this line D, upstream of the cooling device R, by a line G coming from an upstream stage (here second stage EC 2 ) of a line of compressors GC on the same shaft line of which is mounted the compressor C supplying the mixing column CM.
  • the compressor line EC i - C is advantageously driven by a turbine T expanding a pressurized fluid F l available on the site, typically water vapor.
  • the pressure at the outlet of the compressor C can be chosen to be higher than the pressure required P2 for the mixing column, the air at the outlet of this compressor C can be turbinated up to the pressure P 2 in the turbine t which can thus be used to drive a booster c used to boost one of the fluids entering or leaving the distillation apparatus, for example, as shown in Figure 2, the impure nitrogen in the line N to assist in the recovery of this impure nitrogen, for example by introducing it as ballast into the combustion chamber of a gas turbine group exploiting a combustible gas transformed from a waste gas from the furnace F.

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