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Saturday, June 18, 2011

LINDE’S Process

Linde’s process is known as Adiabatic expansion of compressed gas.
Principle
The process is based upon Joule – Thomson Effect, which states,
“When a gas under high pressure is allowed to expand adiabatically through a fine hole into a region of low pressure, it is accompanied by cooling.
The term ‘adiabatically’ means that apparatus is perfectly insulated so that no heat is lost to or gained from the surroundings.
C.T.M (An obvious reason for the cooling is that when the gas expands from a region of high pressure to the region of low pressure, the intermolecular distance increases. Some work is to be done for increasing intermolecular distances. This is done on the cost of Kinetic energy of the gas. Thus, the Kinetic energy of the gas decreases and therefore the temperature falls).
Procedure
The process based upon the above principle is known as Linde’s Process. The apparatus used is shown in figure on side with names of different parts. This apparatus was used by Linde to liquefy air.
The air is first compressed to about 200 atmospheres in the compressor and then passed through the condensing coils. As a result, the air is cooled and the water vapours present condense to form the water which is removed from receiver. The dry air is then passed through the spiral copper tube which terminates into a jet .The air expands through the jet into the chamber where pressure is about 50 atmospheres. Thus, as a result of Joule-Thomson effect, the air is cooled. As this cooled air moves up, it further cools the incoming air. The cooled air is sent to the compressor again and the process is repeated a number of times till ultimately the air is cooled to such an extent that it liquefies. The liquefied air gets collected at the bottom of the outer chamber and can be drawn off. Any uncondensed air is recirculated.

25 comments:

  1. Why Hydrogen and Helium can not be liquefied by this method

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    1. Gases for which the intermolecular forces of attraction are small such as H2, N2, Ar and O2, have low values of Tc and cannot be liquefied by the application of pressure are known as “permanent gases” while the gases for which the intermolecular forces of attraction are large, such as polar molecules NH3, SO2 and H2O have high values of Tc and can be liquefied easily.

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    2. What type of gas can be purified by this method

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    3. Low pressure gases can be purified

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  2. why we use spiral tube for liquefaction?

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    1. Bcoz spiral is used to decrease the high pressure gas to low so it s used

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  3. please can u give eamples for lindes process

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  4. thanks! and good this make me easy to learn and understand this topic.

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  5. can u explain it with t-s diagram

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  6. why spiral pipe is used in this process?

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    1. This spiral is used to decrease the high pressure has to low pressure
      ...only u can change the gas in low pressure so they are r using that sprialà

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  7. Ye kia bakwas hain😂😂😂😂
    Kuch samaj nhi aaaraha. . Well Tahnks

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    1. agar ye samajh nhi aaya to kitaab ka ghanta samajh me aaye ga tumko

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  8. What is the name of the apparatus?

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