Patent ID: 6666048
Filing Date: 2003-12-23
Classification: F25J,Y10S

Abstract:
A process for increasing the amount of at least one product produced by a first unit for treating at least one fluid mixture by a method selected from the group consisting of pressurization, mixing in a mixing column, expansion, distillation, liquefaction, adsorption, permeation and combinations thereof, the method comprising sending at least one fluid mixture to the first unit and removing at least one product from the first unit, said product having a different composition from said at least one fluid mixture and optionally, at least one of a different state and a different pressure from said at least one fluid mixture, wherein the first unit alone before integrating a second unit to the first unit produces an amount A moles/h of a first product, the process comprising integrating the second unit with the first unit, said integration comprising sending at least one of (a) energy from the first unit to the second unit, (b) at lest one fluid stream from the first unit to the second unit, (c) energy from the second unit to the first unit and (d) at least one fluid stream from the second unit to the first unit, wherein said second unit treats at least one fluid mixture by a method selected from the group consisting of pressurization, expansion, warming, cooling, distillation, mixing, liquefaction, adsorption, permeation and combinations thereof such that the first unit produces an amount of first product A+B moles/h, said amount of first product withdrawn from the first unit and optionally from the second unit is increased to C moles/h, C being greater than A, and the amount C comprising at least one fluid stream withdrawn from the first unit and optionally from the second unit.