1. An early process used for the liquefaction of air. It involves first purifying the air by passage over soda lime to remove carbon dioxide, and then drying it. It is then pressurized to around 200 atmospheres, and cooled back to ambient temperature and passed through closely spiralled thin copper tubing surrounded by thicker copper tubing. The air is allowed to expand to about 20 atmospheres and cooled by the Joule–Thomson effect. The cooled air passes through the annulus between the two tubes thereby cooling further incoming compressed air. The process was developed by German engineer Carl von Linde (1842–1934) and later improved by George Claude (1870–1960) who made the expansion of the gas doing useful work in an expansion engine.
2. A process used for the removal of hydrogen sulphide and mercaptans from petroleum fractions by reaction with oxygen in the presence of a metal amino acid chelate in an aqueous solution containing an amine.