Gas and liquid contact apparatus – Contact devices – Porous mass
Reexamination Certificate
2006-04-25
2006-04-25
Bushey, Scott (Department: 1724)
Gas and liquid contact apparatus
Contact devices
Porous mass
C261S103000, C422S198000, C422S220000, C422S222000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07032894
ABSTRACT:
A device for distributing fluid into a monolith bed includes a plurality of flow channels stacked in order of decreasing diameter. The flow channels successively split a flow stream into a multiple flow streams prior to the flow stream entering the monolith bed.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2490080 (1949-12-01), Melvill
patent: 4471821 (1984-09-01), Coulon et al.
patent: 4788040 (1988-11-01), Campagnolo et al.
patent: 4808350 (1989-02-01), Robbins et al.
patent: 5013492 (1991-05-01), Gay et al.
patent: 5063043 (1991-11-01), Bengtsson
patent: 5122310 (1992-06-01), Ghelfi et al.
patent: 5173173 (1992-12-01), Vauk
patent: 5211918 (1993-05-01), Harle
patent: 5506364 (1996-04-01), Martin et al.
patent: 5788949 (1998-08-01), O'Brien
patent: 5980838 (1999-11-01), von Hippel et al.
patent: RE36577 (2000-02-01), Jeannot et al.
patent: 6560990 (2003-05-01), Hayashida et al.
patent: 6824749 (2004-11-01), Leloup et al.
patent: 2003/0086845 (2003-05-01), Adusei et al.
patent: 2004/0247501 (2004-12-01), Adusei et al.
Edvinsson, R. K., et al. “A comparison between the monolithic reactor and the trickle-bed reactor for liquid-phase hydrogenations,” Catalysis Today, 24 (1995), pp. 173-179.
Lebens, P. J., et al., “Hydrodynamics of gas-liquid countercurrent flow in internally finned monolithic structures,” Chemical Engineering Science, 52 (1997), pp. 3893-3899.
Satterfield et al., “Some Characteristics of Two-Phase Flow in Monolithic Catalyst Structures”, Ind. Eng. Chem., Fundam., vol. 16, No. 1, 1977, pp. 61-66.
Kawakami et al., “Performance of a Honeycomb Monolith Bioreactor—Gas-Liquid-Solid Three-Phase-System”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., vol. 28, No. 4, 1989, pp. 394-400.
Shiraishi et al., “Characterization of Production of Free Gluconic Acid by Gluconobacter suboxydans Adsorbed on Ceramic Honeycomb Monolith”, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, vol. 33, May 1989. pp. 1413-1418.
Adusei George Y.
Campbell Stephen A.
Liu Wei
Odinak Mitchell E.
Roy Shantanu
Bushey Scott
Corning Incorporated
Sterre Kees van der
LandOfFree
Flow distributor for monolith reactors does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with Flow distributor for monolith reactors, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Flow distributor for monolith reactors will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-3617418