Liquid purification or separation – Casing divided by membrane into sections having inlet – Cylindrical membrane
Patent
1990-11-27
1992-08-18
Spear, Frank
Liquid purification or separation
Casing divided by membrane into sections having inlet
Cylindrical membrane
21050023, 2105021, B01D 6302
Patent
active
051396688
ABSTRACT:
A hollow fiber bundle element comprises a bundle of microporous hollow fibers disposed in a cylindrical impermeable casing. Each fiber, wall provide a permeability in the microfiltration range (0.05 to 5 micrometers). The bundle forms two longitudinal passageways, being the lumina of the fibers and the other being the void space between the fibers. A first of these passageways is densely and uniformly packed with minute solid particles. No binder is used to fix the particles--they maintain their distribution in the passageway as a result of having been densely packed under pressure. The ends of the first passageway are sealed, and since the fiber wall pores are smaller than the particles, the particles are immobilized therein. The hollow fiber module packed with minute adsorbent particles in the first passageway provides an adsorber. A fluid mixture comprising a carrier and an adsorbate is introduced into the second passageway, and diffuses through the fiber walls and is collected by the adsorbent particles. The use of small adsorbent particles enhances adsorption rate, and availability of a separate longitudinal flow passageway reduces pressure drop across the adsorber. Alternatively, the hollow fiber module may be packed with minute catalyst particles to provide an effective catalytic reactor with improved mass transfer between the catalyst particles in the first passageway and surrounding fluid containing the reactants, in the second passageway.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4247393 (1981-01-01), Wallace
patent: 4963264 (1990-10-01), Davis
McMinis Curtis W.
Pan Chuen Y.
Alberta Research Corporation
Spear Frank
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