Apparatus for separating fouling contaminants from...

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2006-02-28

2006-02-28

Hopkins, Robert A. (Department: 1724)

Gas separation: processes

Deflecting

Centrifugal force

C096S188000, C055S315100, C055S459100, C055S434000, C201S004000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07004999

ABSTRACT:
A method of continuously capturing BioOil and its constituents from a gas stream produced in a fast pyrolysis/thermolysis process, in a usable liquid form so as to produce a non-condensable gas free of fouling contaminates. The method includes separating BioOil and its constituents from a gas stream using hot inertial separation to maintain the temperature of said BioOil and its constituents above a temperature at which the thick and/or sticky constituents cause inefficient operation of the equipment but low enough so that they do not undergo rapid degradation. Next the gas velocity is reduced to a temperature sufficiently low to allow droplets in the gas stream to settle out but high enough so that a viscosity of said droplets remains low enough to avoid inefficient operation of the separation equipment. Finally, liquid is condensed out of the gas stream.

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