A cryogenic air rectification system comprising a high pressure column, a low pressure column and an argon removal unit coupled to a condenser evaporator, wherein the system is configured to pass gas from a position above an oxygen section of the low pressure column as an argon removal feed gas to a lower region of the argon removal unit, wherein the system is configured to condense gas from an upper region of the argon removal unit in the condenser evaporator to form a condensate, wherein the system is configured to pass further gas from the top of the upper region of the argon removal unit out of the system, and wherein the system is configured to pass at least a part of the condensate as a reflux to the upper region of the argon removal unit.

The present disclosure provides a carbon-based oxygen-enriched combustion method for recirculation of flue gas from a cement kiln. The combustion method includes recirculating the flue gas generated by the cement kiln to a certain degree to concentrate and enrich carbon dioxide in the flue gas of the cement kiln, mixing the carbon dioxide-rich recirculating flue gas of the cement kiln with the pressurized oxygen to obtain the carbon-based oxygen-enriched products, and mixing the carbon-based oxygen-enriched products with the atmospheric-pressure oxygen to obtain carbon-based air which serves as combustion-supporting gas of the cement kiln.

A method and an apparatus for a cooling of an electroyzer unit is described. The apparatus receives a temperature value associated with ambient air in proximal to the electrolyzer unit. The apparatus compares the temperature value with a predefined temperature threshold. The apparatus controls a supply of a liquid air stream from an air separation unit to a first heat exchanger unit based on the comparison. The apparatus control the first heat exchanger unit to mix the liquid air stream with the ambient air. The mixing of the liquid air stream and the ambient air causes transfer of heat therebetween. The apparatus controls a cooling of the electrolyzer unit based on the mixing.

In this air separation method, compressed air is successively cooled in a cooling step, purified in a purifier and sent to a cryogenic section producing at least one product containing at least one air component. The purifier comprises at least two switchable adsorber vessels, one of them being in adsorption mode. Two sources of compressed air are provided. The first source is an air grid supplying compressed air to further consumers. The second source is a dedicated main air compressor delivering compressed air to the cooling step only. Air portions from both sources are mixed at a mixing point. The air flow to the cryogenic section is controlled by measuring at least one parameter of the air flow upstream or downstream the purifier. According to such measurement, the air flow at the outlet of the main air compressor is set.

An apparatus for producing high-purity oxygen includes a heat exchanger for cooling feed air, a first rectification column, and a second rectification column. The first column reduces high-boiling-point impurities from the cooled air to produce an oxygen-containing liquid from a discharge portion. This liquid is then transferred to the second column, which reduces low-boiling-point impurities to yield the final high-purity oxygen product. A dedicated piping system connects the columns and features a branch. First piping, controlled by a first valve, directs the oxygen-containing liquid to the second column to regulate its flow rate. Second piping, controlled by a second valve, branches from the first. This arrangement allows for diversion of the liquid, enabling precise control over the properties of the feed to the second column. This control scheme ensures consistent product quality without reliance on expensive, real-time analytical instruments.

A method for operating a process plant using a dynamic model of the process plant, the dynamic model being based on at least one of thermo fluidic correlations, thermo dynamic correlations, phenomenological correlations, and equations, and being based on geometry and/or topology of components of the process plant, the dynamic model receiving process parameters as input values, the dynamic model being adapted to represent a transition from one to another state of the process plant, wherein the dynamic model is used in an online mode, in which the dynamic model is used in parallel with the operation of the process plant, wherein signals from a control system of the process plant, the signals representing values of at least one first process parameter, are received and fed into the dynamic model.