Gas and liquid contact apparatus – Contact devices – Wet baffle
Reexamination Certificate
2006-10-06
2008-11-11
Bushey, Scott (Department: 1797)
Gas and liquid contact apparatus
Contact devices
Wet baffle
C261S114500, C055S444000, C096S190000, C096S358000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07448602
ABSTRACT:
A multi-tray distillation unit having a separator for de-entraining liquid particles. The separator comprises vertically spaced tiers of elongated, substantially horizontal open-topped liquid collector channels arrayed in parallel rows transversely to the flow of the gas. The liquid collector channels are vertically staggered to deflect the gas flow from a lower tier level through the gaps between the collection channels of an upper tier and around the channels so as to cause the entrained liquid particles to separate from the gaseous stream by inertia into the channels of the lower tier. An improved channel configuration has a rigidly-mounted, horizontally-elongated flow deflector extending downwards from an upper tier channel toward a lower tier channel, this provides gas flow deflection and increased efficiency of liquid particle de-entrainment.
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Barrett Glenn T.
Bushey Scott
Clark W. Robinson H.
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
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