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WO2014099848A3 - Purification of inert gases to remove trace impurities - Google Patents

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WO2014099848A3
WO2014099848A3 PCT/US2013/075555 US2013075555W WO2014099848A3 WO 2014099848 A3 WO2014099848 A3 WO 2014099848A3 US 2013075555 W US2013075555 W US 2013075555W WO 2014099848 A3 WO2014099848 A3 WO 2014099848A3
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Daniel Gary
Purushottam V. Shanbhag
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Abstract

A method for purifying an argon stream is provided. The method includes pretreating an argon waste stream to remove impurities to provide a pre-treated argon waste stream having argon, nitrogen, and hydrogen; cooling the argon waste stream to create a cold feed stream; and condensing the cold feed stream to create a liquid feed stream. The liquid feed stream is fed to the cryogenic distillation column to create a bottoms argon product stream and a gas waste stream. The bottoms argon product stream travels to an expansion device to provide a cooled bottoms argon product stream, which can optionally be combined with an argon lift stream downstream of the expansion device. The combined argon lift stream and cooled bottoms argon product stream are fed to the overhead condenser and vaporized to create a purified vapor phase argon stream.
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