公开(公告)号：US10213731B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-26

申请号：US15410024

申请日：2017-01-19

申请人： Larry Baxter ,  Aaron Sayre ,  Stephanie Burt ,  Nathan Davis

发明人： Larry Baxter ,  Aaron Sayre ,  Stephanie Burt ,  Nathan Davis

IPC分类号： F25J3/06 ,  B01D53/14 ,  B01D53/62 ,  B01D53/78 ,  B01D53/96 ,  C10L3/10

摘要： A method for continuously removing carbon dioxide vapor from a carrier gas is disclosed. This method includes, first, causing direct contact of the carrier gas with a liquid mixture in a separation chamber, the carrier gas condensing at a lower temperature than the carbon dioxide vapor. A combination of chemical effects cause the carbon dioxide to condense, complex, or both condense and complex with the liquid mixture. The liquid mixture is chosen from the group consisting of: first, a combination of components that can be maintained in a liquid phase at a temperature below the carbon dioxide vapor's condensation point, whereby the carbon dioxide condenses into the liquid mixture; second, a combination of components where at least one component forms a chemical complex with the carbon dioxide vapor and thereby extracts at least a portion of the carbon dioxide vapor from the carrier gas; and third, a combination of components that can both be maintained in a liquid phase at a temperature below the carbon dioxide's condensation point, and wherein at least one component forms a chemical complex with the carbon dioxide vapor and thereby extracts at least a portion of the carbon dioxide vapor from the carrier gas. The liquid mixture is then reconstituted after passing through the separation chamber by a chemical separation process chosen to remove an equivalent amount of the carbon dioxide vapor from the liquid mixture as was removed from the carrier gas. The reconstituted liquid mixture is restored to temperature and pressure through heat exchange, compression, and expansion, as necessary, in preparation for recycling back to the separation chamber. The liquid mixture is then returned to the separation chamber. In this manner, the carrier gas leaving the exchanger has between 1% and 100% of the carbon dioxide vapor removed.

公开(公告)号：US20190003767A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-03

申请号：US15635985

申请日：2017-06-28

申请人： Larry Baxter ,  Aaron Sayre ,  Christopher Hoeger ,  Stephanie Burt ,  David Frankman ,  Eric Mansfield ,  Nathan Davis

发明人： Larry Baxter ,  Aaron Sayre ,  Christopher Hoeger ,  Stephanie Burt ,  David Frankman ,  Eric Mansfield ,  Nathan Davis

IPC分类号： F25J3/06 ,  B02C23/10 ,  F25J1/00 ,  B01D53/00

摘要： A device and process for removing vapors from a gas is disclosed. A tower is provided. Sub-cooled pellets are distributed by the solids distributor across a horizontal cross-section of the tower. A process gas, comprising a product vapor, passes through the gas inlet. The product vapor and the sub-cooled pellets comprise the same material. The product vapor and the sub-cooled pellets agglomerate as the product vapor desublimates onto the sub-cooled pellets, forming product pellets and a vapor-depleted gas. A crushing device, a screening device, and a solids heat exchanger are provided. A portion of the product pellets are recycled as sub-cooled pellets to the solids distributor by crushing and screening the portion of the product pellets to the size distribution of the sub-cooled pellets and cooling the portion of the product pellets to produce the sub-cooled pellets.

公开(公告)号：US20180306501A1

公开(公告)日：2018-10-25

申请号：US15496307

申请日：2017-04-25

申请人： Larry Baxter ,  Kyler Stitt ,  Stephanie Burt ,  Christopher Hoeger ,  Eric Mansfield ,  Nathan Davis

发明人： Larry Baxter ,  Kyler Stitt ,  Stephanie Burt ,  Christopher Hoeger ,  Eric Mansfield ,  Nathan Davis

IPC分类号： F25J3/08

摘要： A process for separating a mixture of components is disclosed. A liquid mixture is provided to a separation vessel substantially near a temperature at which a product component freezes. The liquid mixture comprises the product component and a carrier component. The product component and the carrier component are essentially immiscible substantially near the temperature. The liquid mixture is separated into two or more phases, the two or more phases comprising a product component-rich liquid phase and a product component-depleted liquid phase. In this manner, a mixture of components is separated.

公开(公告)号：US20180257007A1

公开(公告)日：2018-09-13

申请号：US15454353

申请日：2017-03-09

申请人： Larry Baxter ,  Eric Mansfield ,  Stephanie Burt ,  Kyler Stitt ,  David Frankman ,  Skyler Chamberlain ,  Nathan Davis ,  Steven Malone

发明人： Larry Baxter ,  Eric Mansfield ,  Stephanie Burt ,  Kyler Stitt ,  David Frankman ,  Skyler Chamberlain ,  Nathan Davis ,  Steven Malone

IPC分类号： B01D29/35 ,  B01D29/56 ,  F25J3/08

CPC分类号： F25J3/08 ,  B01D17/00 ,  B01D17/10 ,  B01D25/215 ,  B01D25/302 ,  B01D39/1692 ,  B01D39/20 ,  B01D39/2075

摘要： A device for thickening a cryogenic slurry is disclosed. The device comprises a cryogenic slurry flow path, a cryogenic liquid discharge path, and a filter medium between the cryogenic slurry flow path and the cryogenic liquid discharge path. The cryogenic slurry comprises a solid and a cryogenic liquid. The cryogenic slurry is fed into the cryogenic slurry flow path, generally tangential to the filter medium. This causes a portion of the cryogenic liquid to cross the filter medium into the cryogenic liquid discharge path as a cryogenic liquid discharge and the cryogenic slurry to thicken to produce a thickened slurry. The filter medium comprises a cryogenically-stable material such that adsorption of gases is inhibited, deposition of solids is prevented, and temperature-change induced expansion and contraction of the filter medium is optimized.

公开(公告)号：US10537823B2

公开(公告)日：2020-01-21

申请号：US15433185

申请日：2017-02-15

申请人： Larry Baxter ,  Christopher Hoeger ,  Eric Mansfield ,  Kyler Stitt ,  Stephanie Burt ,  Nathan Davis

发明人： Larry Baxter ,  Christopher Hoeger ,  Eric Mansfield ,  Kyler Stitt ,  Stephanie Burt ,  Nathan Davis

IPC分类号： B01D1/00

摘要： A method for removing carbon dioxide from a carrier liquid using a heat exchanger. A carrier liquid, containing carbon dioxide, is heated through the heat exchanger, causing the carbon dioxide to vaporize. The carrier liquid and the carbon dioxide gas pass to a liquid removal vessel. The carrier liquid is removed and the carbon dioxide gas is compressed. The compressed carbon dioxide gas is provided to the heat exchanger, cooling the carbon dioxide gas opposite the carrier liquid, producing a carbon dioxide liquid.

公开(公告)号：US10465984B2

公开(公告)日：2019-11-05

申请号：US15412484

申请日：2017-01-23

申请人： Larry Baxter ,  Andrew Baxter ,  Eric Mansfield ,  Aaron Sayre ,  Kyler Stitt ,  Christopher Hoeger ,  Stephanie Burt ,  David Frankman

发明人： Larry Baxter ,  Andrew Baxter ,  Eric Mansfield ,  Aaron Sayre ,  Kyler Stitt ,  Christopher Hoeger ,  Stephanie Burt ,  David Frankman

IPC分类号： F25J3/06 ,  B01D53/00

摘要： Condensable vapors such as carbon dioxide are separated from light gases in a process stream. The systems and methods employ a circulating fluidized particle bed cooled by an out-bed heat exchanger to desublimate the solid form of condensable vapors from the process stream. Gas and solids may be sorted in a separator, and the solids may then be subcooled in a heat exchanger. The condensable vapors may be condensed on the bed particles or in the heat exchanger while the light gases from the process stream, which are not condensed, form a separated light-gas stream.

公开(公告)号：US10197329B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-05

申请号：US15439305

申请日：2017-02-22

申请人： Larry Baxter ,  Christopher Hoeger ,  Aaron Sayre ,  Skyler Chamberlain ,  Kyler Stitt ,  Eric Mansfield ,  Jacom Chamberlain ,  Stephanie Burt ,  Andrew Baxter ,  Nathan Davis

发明人： Larry Baxter ,  Christopher Hoeger ,  Aaron Sayre ,  Skyler Chamberlain ,  Kyler Stitt ,  Eric Mansfield ,  Jacom Chamberlain ,  Stephanie Burt ,  Andrew Baxter ,  Nathan Davis

IPC分类号： F25J3/08 ,  B01F3/04 ,  B01D53/00 ,  B01D53/26 ,  B01D45/12 ,  B04C5/04 ,  B04C5/13 ,  B04C5/14 ,  B01F13/02

摘要： A method for separating a vapor from a carrier gas is disclosed. A hydrocyclone is provided with one or more nozzles on the wall of the hydrocyclone. A cryogenic liquid is provided to the tangential feed inlet at a velocity that induces a tangential flow and a cyclone vortex in the hydrocyclone. The carrier gas is injected into the hydrocyclone through the one or more nozzles. The vapor dissolves, condenses, desublimates, or a combination thereof, forming a vapor-depleted carrier gas and a vapor-enriched cryogenic liquid. The vapor-depleted gas is drawn through the vortex finder while the vapor-enriched cryogenic liquid is drawn through the apex nozzle outlet. In this manner, the vapor is removed from the carrier gas.

公开(公告)号：US10195615B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-05

申请号：US15438245

申请日：2017-02-21

申请人： Larry Baxter ,  Christopher Hoeger ,  Aaron Sayre ,  Skyler Chamberlain ,  Kyler Stitt ,  Stephanie Burt ,  Eric Mansfield ,  Jacom Chamberlain ,  Andrew Baxter ,  Nathan Davis

发明人： Larry Baxter ,  Christopher Hoeger ,  Aaron Sayre ,  Skyler Chamberlain ,  Kyler Stitt ,  Stephanie Burt ,  Eric Mansfield ,  Jacom Chamberlain ,  Andrew Baxter ,  Nathan Davis

IPC分类号： B03D1/14 ,  B01F3/04 ,  B01F13/02 ,  B04C7/00 ,  B04C5/10 ,  C10L3/10 ,  B04C9/00

摘要： A method for separating a vapor from a carrier gas is disclosed. An air-sparged hydrocyclone is provided with a porous sparger covered by an outer gas plenum. A cryogenic liquid is provided to the tangential feed inlet at a velocity that induces a tangential flow and a cyclone vortex in the cyclone. The carrier gas is injected into the air-sparged hydrocyclone through the porous sparger. The vapor dissolves, condenses, desublimates, or a combination thereof, forming a vapor-depleted carrier gas and a vapor-enriched cryogenic liquid. The vapor-depleted gas is drawn through a vortex finder while the vapor-enriched cryogenic liquid is drawn through an apex nozzle outlet. In this manner, the vapor is removed from the carrier gas.

公开(公告)号：US20180369744A1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-27

申请号：US15634043

申请日：2017-06-27

申请人： Larry Baxter ,  David Frankman ,  Aaron Sayre ,  Stephanie Burt ,  Christopher Hoeger ,  Eric Mansfield ,  Nathan Davis

发明人： Larry Baxter ,  David Frankman ,  Aaron Sayre ,  Stephanie Burt ,  Christopher Hoeger ,  Eric Mansfield ,  Nathan Davis

IPC分类号： B01D53/18 ,  F25J3/08

摘要： A process and device for separating a vapor from a gas is disclosed. A direct-contact exchanger comprising a droplet-generating apparatus in a top portion of the exchanger and a bubbling apparatus in a bottom portion of the exchanger is provided. An inlet gas, comprising a vapor, is passed through the bubbling apparatus, forming bubbles in a bottoms liquid. The bottoms liquid strips a portion of the vapor and exchanges heat with the bubbles, producing a product liquid and a middle gas. A barren liquid is passed through the droplet-generating apparatus to form droplets of the barren liquid in the top portion. The droplets descend against the middle gas and strip a second portion of the vapor from and exchange heat with the middle gas, producing the bottoms liquid, which collects in the bottom portion, and a product gas.

公开(公告)号：US20180320963A1

公开(公告)日：2018-11-08

申请号：US15587037

申请日：2017-05-04

申请人： Larry Baxter ,  Stephanie Burt ,  Christopher Hoeger ,  David Frankman ,  Aaron Sayre ,  Eric Mansfield ,  Skyler Chamberlain ,  Kyler Stitt ,  Nathan Davis

发明人： Larry Baxter ,  Stephanie Burt ,  Christopher Hoeger ,  David Frankman ,  Aaron Sayre ,  Eric Mansfield ,  Skyler Chamberlain ,  Kyler Stitt ,  Nathan Davis

IPC分类号： F25J3/08

CPC分类号： F25J3/08 ,  F25J2205/20 ,  F25J2210/60 ,  F25J2210/70 ,  F25J2220/66 ,  F25J2220/68 ,  F25J2280/02

摘要： A process for separating a vapor from a gas is disclosed. A cryogenic liquid is provided to an inlet of a froth flotation device. A carrier gas is provided to a gas distributor of the froth flotation device. The carrier gas comprises a product vapor. Bubbles of the carrier gas are produced and passed through the cryogenic liquid in the froth flotation device. A portion of the product vapor desublimates, condenses, crystallizes, or a combination thereof to produce a solid product and a product-depleted carrier gas. Bubbles of the product-depleted carrier gas collect the solid product as a froth concentrate. The froth concentrate is removed by overflowing out of the froth flotation device.