Abstract:
A pressure vessel mounts hinges adjacent its open end for pivotal displacement of a door between open and closed positions, the hinges being raised and lowered with the door by power operated means. The door may be closed when lowered into roller-supported alignment with power operated locking means which includes toggle linkages for clamping the door to the vessel. Power operated safety pins hold the linkages in the locked condition.
Abstract:
The rotating shaft is sealingly mounted in a wall of the vessel by a liquid-tight lip seal. In order to avoid undesired depositions on the seal the latter is made of electroconductive material and connected to the anode of a source of electricity the cathode of which is connected to a counter-electrode within the vessel.
Abstract:
Apparatus for a vertically extending heat exchanger column for the desaliion of sea water based on a multi-effect evaporation process includes a container for forming a pressure-tight enclosure about the heat exchanger column. The container is made up of four upwardly extending side walls, a top end wall and a bottom end wall. The side walls are arranged in pairs with the walls of each pair spaced opposite one another. A truss-like support structure is arranged around the outside of the container with one pair of side walls and the top and bottom end walls fixed to the support structure. The other pair of side walls are movably secured to the support structure. Lifting tackle is located on the upper end of the support structure. Movable platforms are mounted along the movable side walls of the container. Snap closures secure the movable side walls to the other side walls and to the end walls. Seals are provided along the movable side walls for the pressure tight enclosure of the container.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a closure system for pressure vessels, the closure consisting of a cover and of two clamp halves each of which can be moved into closing or open position by means of guiding elements. The clamp halves, the cover, and the pressure vessel housing being equipped with stop surfaces, the stop surfaces of the clamp halves being opposite to those of the cover and of the pressure vessel housing in closing position. The closure system is especially suitable in cases where an entirely automatic closing device is required for pressure vessels having an operating pressure of more than 10 bar.The clamp halves are connected by means of tensible flexible bearings to guiding elements to allow for a cover movement in axial direction. The tension of the flexible bearings is sufficient for automatic resetting of the clamp halves into zero position after depressurization of the vessel.
Abstract:
An elongated tubular wand is provided including an inlet end portion and an outlet end portion equipped with a spray discharge nozzle. A mounting sleeve is loosely disposed over the wand outlet end portion with the latter being slidingly reciprocal relative to the former. Seal structure is provided establishing a fluid tight sliding seal between the external surfaces of the wand and the internal surfaces of the mounting sleeve. A tubular full opening and closing valve is sealingly mounting on the end of the mounting sleeve corresponding to the wand outlet end portion and through which the latter may be lengthwise extended and retracted. The valve includes structure for support from a tubular inlet fitting opening into a closed pipe section or other closed vessel and the inlet end portion of the wand includes fluid inlet structure for sealed communication with a source of fluid under pressure.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for preventing fluid leakage through a sealing mechanism of a melt pump into a vessel during the period of establishing a vacuum therein and increasing the viscosity of the material fed thereto. The method includes enclosing in a fluid-tight relationship the area of fluid leakage adjacent the sealing mechanism and reducing the pressure in the enclosed area sufficiently to prevent the fluid from leaking. The apparatus includes a rigid housing which encloses in fluid-tight relationship the area of fluid leakage adjacent the sealing mechanism, a vacuum generating device, and means for connecting the vacuum generating device with the enclosed area.
Abstract:
An insulation arrangement in which a sheath (2) having at least one thin deformable wall (3), for example of foil, contains a powder insulating material (10), with a high vacuum within the sheath. The vacuum can be drawn through an opening (8) after a filter (9) is inserted to prevent removing the powder when the vacuum is drawn. The insulation arrangement can take the form of a panel or a pipe, and the thin wall (3) can be mechanically deformed after the vacuum is drawn.
Abstract:
Cover for a cylinder-shaped pressure container such as a vacuum impregnation container or an autoclave which at the mouth edge has members for holding a tight fitting closure member against the mouth edge which members contrary to previously known and complicated members can be manufactured by means of generally known working processes and machine tools. The mouth edge of the container (1) and the closure member (3) both have a radially outwards directed annular flange (2,4) which flanges have cooperating contact faces (5) and each a sloping surface, whereby the width of the two flange members (2,4) is decreasing towards the outer edge. The cover further comprises a retaining ring (6) which is placed close to the flange members (2,4) and which is ended up by two free ends (8). The retaining ring (6) has a slot (7) which is open towards the center and corresponding to the cross section of the flange members (2,4), and the circumference of the retaining ring (6) is similar to the outer circumference of the flanges (2,4) so that the free ends of the ring (6) can be pulled towards each other, when the flange members (2,4) are assumed in the slot (7) of the ring (6). The free ends (8) of the retaining ring (6) can be connected to driving means (9) of a hydraulic type for the closing of the retaining ring (6) around the flange members (2,4).
Abstract:
A process and apparatus for the acid hydrolysis of waste cellulose to glucose of the type wherein waste cellulose is continuously fed into an inlet port of a twin screw extruder, water is continuously fed into reaction zone in the extruder downstream of the inlet port, the cellulose is continuously reacted with water in the presence of an acid catalyst at elevated temperature and pressure in the reaction zone while continuously conveying same to an outlet port of the extruder and the reacted cellulose is discharged from the extruder the elevated temperature and pressure in the reaction zone is maintained, has the elevated pressure is maintained by forming a dynamic seal zone at the upstream end of the reaction zone by providing an unthreaded and radially recessed discontinuity in the screws.
Abstract:
A process and apparatus for the conversion of waste cellulose to glucose wherein an aqueous slurry of waste cellulose is acid hydrolyzed includes continuously feeding an aqueous slurry of waste cellulose into an inlet port with a twin screw extruder, continuously reacting the cellulose with water in the presence of an acid catalyst at elevated temperature and pressure in a reaction zone disposed in the extruder between the inlet port and an outlet port while continuously conveying same to the outlet port and at least quasi-continuously discharging the reacted cellulose from the extruder while maintaining the elevated temperature and pressure in the reaction zone by forming a dynamic seal zone at the upstream end of the reaction zone and valving the discharge downstream of the outlet port.