Helium Manufacturing

Refinery processing unit UOG-8

Helium production at CJSC ColdGasEngineering is based on a UOG-8 refinery processing unit designed and manufactured by the company.

The processing unit is designed for the production of high-purity helium from the stripping stream obtained during the production of neon.
The composition of the stripping stream:

  • the volume fraction of neon, not less than 10 – 15%;
  • the volume fraction of helium – the rest.

The stripping stream enters from the neon production after passing through the purification unit, so the composition of the remaining impurities corresponds to the product with a 6.0 grade (99.9999%).

Helium corresponds to a 6.0 grade

 
All helium produced by us corresponds to the 6.0 purity grade (99.9999%).
By special order, we produce products of 7.0 grade (99.99999%), for individual impurity components reaching ppb units.
Helium is pumped by a membrane compressor into steel (aluminum) cylinders with a capacity from 1 L to 50 L.
The maximum pump-in pressure is 200 kgf/cm2.
The technological scheme of the processing unit allows you to have an arbitrarily large resource of work.
The real annual helium manufacturing plant capacity is 70 000 m3/year.

Configuration of the refinery processing unit

  1. Structurally, the processing unit is a set of machinery, compressors, and ancillary equipment connected by pipelines with the necessary fittings.
  2. The system of control and management of the processing unit provides the possibility of monitoring the technological process, control of units, and remotely controlled fittings.
  3. . The gas testing laboratory provides:
  • incoming analysis of raw materials (stripping stream) supplied for processing;
  • technological analysis from the processing unit points;
  • certification analysis of manufactured neon (according to the table listed below).

Operation of the refinery processing unit

  1. Obtaining high-purity helium from the stripping stream is carried out by the method of low-temperature adsorption.The neon fraction from the helium production unit is discharged into the gasholder and then supplied as raw material to the neon processing unit. Structurally, the purification section consists of two identical technological lines, installed parallel to each other. This design allows you to have an arbitrarily long service life of the purification section, since during the operation of one line, the other goes through the preparation stage. Then their switching follows.Filters with a filtration depth of 60 microns are installed at the outlet of the purification section.
  2. Liquid nitrogen supplied from an external tank is used as a refrigerant in the processing unit.
  3. The feed of the processed stripping stream is carried out through discharge ramps. Each of the ramps has the ability to connect 10 cylinders. Ramps work alternately or together.
    The mixture pressure is reduced by a pressure reducer.
  4. The product (helium) outlet is carried out by membrane compressors into filling ramps. Each of the ramps has the ability to connect 10 cylinders. Ramps work alternately or together. The mixture pressure is reduced by a pressure reducer

PRODUCT: Helium

Helium Manufacturing

Refinery processing unit UOG-8

Helium production at CJSC ColdGasEngineering is based on a UOG-8 refinery processing unit designed and manufactured by the company.

The processing unit is designed for the production of high-purity helium from the stripping stream obtained during the production of neon.
The composition of the stripping stream:

  • the volume fraction of neon, not less than 10 – 15%;
  • the volume fraction of helium – the rest.
The stripping stream enters from the neon production after passing through the purification unit, so the composition of the remaining impurities corresponds to the product with a 6.0 grade (99.9999%).
 

Helium corresponds to a 6.0 grade

 
All helium produced by us corresponds to the 6.0 purity grade (99.9999%).
By special order, we produce products of 7.0 grade (99.99999%), for individual impurity components reaching ppb units.
Helium is pumped by a membrane compressor into steel (aluminum) cylinders with a capacity from 1 L to 50 L.
The maximum pump-in pressure is 200 kgf/cm2.
The technological scheme of the processing unit allows you to have an arbitrarily large resource of work.
The real annual helium manufacturing plant capacity is 70 000 m3/year.
 

Configuration of the refinery processing unit

  1. Structurally, the processing unit is a set of machinery, compressors, and ancillary equipment connected by pipelines with the necessary fittings.
  2. The system of control and management of the processing unit provides the possibility of monitoring the technological process, control of units, and remotely controlled fittings.
  3. . The gas testing laboratory provides:
  • incoming analysis of raw materials (stripping stream) supplied for processing;
  • technological analysis from the processing unit points;
  • certification analysis of manufactured neon (according to the table listed below).

 

Operation of the refinery processing unit

  1. Obtaining high-purity helium from the stripping stream is carried out by the method of low-temperature adsorption.The neon fraction from the helium production unit is discharged into the gasholder and then supplied as raw material to the neon processing unit. Structurally, the purification section consists of two identical technological lines, installed parallel to each other. This design allows you to have an arbitrarily long service life of the purification section, since during the operation of one line, the other goes through the preparation stage. Then their switching follows.Filters with a filtration depth of 60 microns are installed at the outlet of the purification section.
  2. Liquid nitrogen supplied from an external tank is used as a refrigerant in the processing unit.
  3. The feed of the processed stripping stream is carried out through discharge ramps. Each of the ramps has the ability to connect 10 cylinders. Ramps work alternately or together.
    The mixture pressure is reduced by a pressure reducer.
  4. The product (helium) outlet is carried out by membrane compressors into filling ramps. Each of the ramps has the ability to connect 10 cylinders. Ramps work alternately or together. The mixture pressure is reduced by a pressure reducer

PRODUCT: Helium

CJSC “ColdGasEngineering”

127410, Russia, Moscow,
Altufevskoe highway, 79A, building 3

E-mail: Info@CGE-gas.ru