Cryogenic and Superconductive Techniques Laboratory

The Experiment:

PNPI highly needs carbon dioxide with a high purity that defined, in particular, by the CO₂ requirements in projects CMS, Atlas and others. The best from available in Russia standard sorts of CO₂ has a purity 99.96%. Considering a practical absence of domestic CO₂ with the cleaning degree of 99,99% and above as well as high cost of delivery from abroad, it’s necessary to solve a problem of the local carbon dioxide production. The method of after purification of standard (99.96% or 99.8%) CO₂ is described below.

Description:

1. Structure.
2. Purification.
3. Regeneration.

Results

With the top grade CO₂ (purity 99.96%) as the source material the cleaning degree not less than 99.998% was achieved, as shown by results of the complex analysis, carried out by the specialists in Laboratory of State Standards in the field of analytical measurements.

This system is an experimental prototype and is intended to prove the possibility of production of CO₂ with the purity degree not less 99.99% by the combination of cryogenic, adsorption and chemical (hemosorption of O₂) methods. Productivity of the system can reach 0.5 m³ (at normal conditions) per working shift .