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WO2008112728A3
WO2008112728A3 PCT/US2008/056599 US2008056599W WO2008112728A3 WO 2008112728 A3 WO2008112728 A3 WO 2008112728A3 US 2008056599 W US2008056599 W US 2008056599W WO 2008112728 A3 WO2008112728 A3 WO 2008112728A3
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Neil Mark Prosser
Richard John Jibb
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Abstract

An air separation method in which a liquid air stream, produced by vaporizing a pumped (120) liquid oxygen stream, is introduced into a lower pressure column (50) and optionally, a higher pressure column (48) of an air separation unit. The liquid air stream (76) is subcooled (78) by extracting a main air feed to the higher pressure column from a main heat exchanger (40) at a temperature warmer than the liquid air stream to increase argon recovery in an argon column (52) connected to the lower pressure column (48). This temperature is selected such that the liquid air stream approaches an average temperature of the return streams being fed into the main heat exchanger from the higher and lower pressure columns at a range between about.2K and about 3K.
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