The invention discloses a method for improving the
nitrogen yield of an
air separation device. The method includes the steps that according to required product
nitrogen increasing amount, rectification packing or the plate number needed when a certain amount of waste
nitrogen is rectified into pure nitrogen is calculated; the rectification packing or the plate number of an upper column on the
air separation device is correspondingly increased according to a calculation result; by further rectifying and purifying the waste nitrogen of the upper column, the waste nitrogen is purified into pure nitrogen, and the product volume of the increased pure nitrogen is obtained. The method further includes the steps that mediums in a pure nitrogen channel and mediums in a waste nitrogen channel of the
air separation device are exchanged, the lost
cooling capacity, caused by reduction of the amount of the waste nitrogen, of a
water cooling tower and a
molecular sieve purifier is calculated, and cold loss is compensated for by additionally arranging a freezing
machine and a
liquid nitrogen evaporator. Besides, the yield of product nitrogen can change according to requirements in the range that the ratio of product
oxygen to the nitrogen is 1:1 to 1:3. According to the method, the
oxygen and nitrogen design proportion of an original air separation device is changed at low improvement cost, and the yield of pure nitrogen products is obtained to the largest extent.