Distillation: apparatus – Apparatus – Systems
Patent
1995-12-18
1997-09-16
Kim, Christopher
Distillation: apparatus
Apparatus
Systems
165166, 62643, B01D 302
Patent
active
056676433
ABSTRACT:
A heat exchanger is provided which is suitable for use as a condenser/reboiler in a double distillation column. The heat exchanger has alternating first and second passages and a reservoir located above the first and second passages for receiving a first fluid and for containing a froth. A series of orifices can be provided by a distributor tray to provide flow communication between the reservoir and the first passages to allow at least a liquid phase of the froth to weep into the first passages and to be partly vaporized through indirect heat exchange with a second fluid flowing through the second passages. The partial vaporization produces a vapor phase of the froth which can at least in part escape from the orifices and interact with the first fluid to thereby form the froth. A remaining part of the liquid phase, not vaporized through the indirect heat exchange, is discharged from the bottom of the first passages into a sump. The weeping inlet of the liquid phase into the first passages allows for the automatic replenishment of the first passages due to flow mal-distribution.
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Clarke Richard Henry
Natarajan Venkat
Satchell, Jr. Donald Prentice
Kim Christopher
Pace Salvatore P.
Rosenblum David M.
The BOC Group Inc.
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