Liquid purification or separation – Processes – Including controlling process in response to a sensed condition
Patent
1995-08-15
1997-07-29
Drodge, Joseph W.
Liquid purification or separation
Processes
Including controlling process in response to a sensed condition
23308S, 210 86, 210114, 210534, 210800, 4235781, B01D 17032, C01B 1702
Patent
active
056518960
ABSTRACT:
A liquid separator system for separating molten sulfur from liquid redox solution or reslurry water. The system includes a vessel with a top part and a bottom part. The vessel has a larger diameter at the top part than at the bottom part, and the cross section of the vessel downwardly decreases from the top part to the bottom part of the vessel. The system also includes an inlet for introducing a redox solution or reslurry water and molten sulfur, which is denser than redox solution or reslurry water, into the vessel. An outlet near the bottom part of the vessel allows a flow of the molten sulfur from the vessel. An interface control structure senses an interface level between the redox solution or reslurry water and the molten sulfur, and the interface control structure controls the flow of molten sulfur from the outlet. The interface control structure is adjusted to optimally alter the vertical height of the interface level within the vessel so that the residence time of the molten sulfur in the vessel does not decrease as the sulfur production throughput decreases, and so that the interface area of the molten sulfur and the redox solution is reduced as the sulfur throughput decreases.
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Drodge Joseph W.
Wheelabrator Clean Air Systems Inc.
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