Patent ID: 8613196
Filing Date: 2013-12-24
Classification: F01K

Abstract:
1. A condensation and thermal compression system comprising: a separation subsystem comprising a first separator, a second separator, a third separator, a scrubber and a third throttle control valve, where the separation subsystem produces rich vapor streams and lean liquid streams and where the third separator produces a rich third separator vapor stream, which is combined with a fully condensed basic solution stream to form an enriched basic solution; a heat exchange subsystem comprising a first heat exchange unit, a second heat exchange unit, a third heat exchange unit, a first throttle control valve, a second throttle control valve, a fourth throttle control valve, a fifth throttle control valve, a sixth throttle control valve, and a seventh throttle control valve, where the heat exchange subsystem cools streams derived from an entering stream, heats a pressurized first enriched basic solution substream splits the pressurized first enriched basic solution substream into substreams, and pressure adjusts the substreams for subsequence use, and pressure adjusting the lean stream and mixes the pressure adjusted lean streams with the entering stream to form a partially condensed basic solution stream and where the entering stream is mixed with an amount of a one of the pressure adjusted lean stream so that entering stream is in a state of saturated vapor; a first condensing and pressurizing subsystem comprising a first condenser, a first pump, and a fourth pump, where the partially condensed basic solution stream is fully condensed to form a fully condensed basic solution stream, where the fully condensed basic solution stream is pressurized to form a pressurized fully condensed basic solution stream, where a rich vapor stream from the third separator is mixed with the fully condensed basic solution stream to form an enriched basic solution stream, where the enriched basic solution stream is pressurized to form the pressurized enriched basic solution stream and where the pressurized enriched basic solution stream is split into the first pressurized enriched basic solution stream and a second pressurized enriched basic solution substream; and a second condensing and pressurizing subsystem comprising a second condenser, a second pump, a third condenser, a third pump, a fifth pump and a heat exchange unit, where a partially condensed lean solution stream comprising a pressure adjusted second pressurized enriched basic solution substream and a rich second separator vapor stream is fully condensed to form a fully condensed lean solution stream, where the fully condensed lean solution stream is pressurized to form a pressurized fully condensed lean solution stream, where the pressurized fully condensed lean solution stream is split into a first lean solution substream and a second lean solution substream, where the second lean solution substream is pressurized to form a pressurized second lean solution stream, where the first lean solution substream is mixed with a cooled rich scrubber vapor stream to form a rich solution stream, where the rich solution stream is fully condensed to form a fully condensed rich solution stream, where the fully condensed rich solution stream is pressurized to form a pressurized rich solution stream, and where a rich scrubber vapor stream is cooled, while the rich solution stream and the second lean solution substream are heated to form a heated rich solution stream, a heated lean solution stream and the cooled rich scrubber vapor stream.