Distillation: processes – separatory – Distilling to separate or remove only water – From organic compound
Reexamination Certificate
2007-09-14
2011-11-08
Manoharan, Virginia (Department: 1771)
Distillation: processes, separatory
Distilling to separate or remove only water
From organic compound
C062S094000, C062S271000, C159S004010, C159S016100, C159S046000, C159S048100, C159S901000, C202S161000, C202S176000, C202S183000, C202S184000, C202S236000, C203S021000, C203S049000, C203S090000, C203S098000, C261S140100, C261S151000, C261S158000, C568S916000, C568S917000, C095S194000, C096S234000, C096S295000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08052847
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for removing water from a liquid desiccant such as a glycol used to dry cooled air in order to restore the desiccant to a purity up to around 97% in a closed continuous flow process. Liquid desiccant can be sprayed into cooled air in a conditioner where it gains moisture. The wet or gained desiccant can be optionally preheated in an economizing heat exchanger and then routed into a concentrator. Desiccant pure to around 97% can be removed from the concentrator, passed through an economizing heat exchanger to provide the preheating and returned to the conditioner holding area. The concentrator can be heated by steam or other means such as natural gas to boil the wet desiccant causing mixed vapor to enter a vertical distillation column where most of the glycol condenses out on the column packing or plates and returns to the concentrator. Almost pure water vapor normally passes out of the top of the column and can be condensed in a water-cooled (or otherwise cooled) condenser and collected or discarded as liquid water. A portion of the water can be piped back into the top of the column as a reflux stream that scrubs the column packing or plates of desiccant. In this way, the desiccant can be purified to around 97%.
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Demakos Peter
Harvey Michael
Koban Matthew
Rowland Phillip
Manoharan Virginia
Niagara Blower Company
Niro Haller & Niro
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