Gas separation – Means within gas stream for conducting concentrate to collector
Patent
1987-12-01
1989-06-27
Spitzer, Robert
Gas separation
Means within gas stream for conducting concentrate to collector
55 68, 55158, 65 5, 65 31, B01D 5322
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active
048426202
ABSTRACT:
A hollow, porous, silica-rich fiber, a process for producing same, and a process for enriching at least one gas from a gaseous mixture utilizing at least one fiber to result in gas separations with good permeability and good selectivity. The fiber is non-crystalline and has pore sizes having a range of 1 to around 50 Angstroms in diameter and a mean pore size of around less than 20 Angstroms in diameter and a filament diameter in the range of 1 to around 250 microns and a wall thickness in the range of around 1 to 50 microns. The fibers with a fine pore structure and thin walls are produced by forming hollow glass fibers hindered or fully phase-separable boron and/or alkali metal glass composition, by attenuation from melt at speeds in the range of 500 ft/min to around 30,000 ft/min. The phase-separable glass fibers are heat treated to yield limited phase-separated hollow glass fibers and these fibers are leached to extract acid and/or water soluble components. For fully phase-separable, hollow glass fibers, a limited heat treatment is used before leaching, where the heat treatment is at a temperature of around 300 to less than 480.degree. C. for a time of around 5 minutes to 24 hours. The hindered, phase-separable, hollow glass fibers are heat treated at a temperature in the range of about 400 to about 600.degree. C. At least one hollow, porous, silica-rich fiber is used in a device suitable to contain a gaseous mixture and the permeate is withdrawn from the silica-rich fiber at the opposite side from that at which the gaseous mixture contacts the hollow, porous fiber.
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Barch Herbert W.
Beaver Richard P.
Daas Balbhadra
Hammel Joseph J.
Marshall William P.
PPG Industries Inc.
Spitzer Robert
Stachel Kenneth J.
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