公开(公告)号：US06652627B1

公开(公告)日：2003-11-25

申请号：US10284029

申请日：2002-10-30

申请人： Anna Lee Tonkovich ,  Bruce F. Monzyk ,  Dongming Qiu ,  Matthew B. Schmidt ,  G. Bradley Chadwell ,  Wesley Bruno ,  Eric Burckle

发明人： Anna Lee Tonkovich ,  Bruce F. Monzyk ,  Dongming Qiu ,  Matthew B. Schmidt ,  G. Bradley Chadwell ,  Wesley Bruno ,  Eric Burckle

IPC分类号： B01D5304

CPC分类号： B01D53/0423 ,  B01D53/0438 ,  B01D53/0462 ,  B01D2253/25 ,  B01D2253/3425 ,  B01D2259/40086 ,  B01D2259/40096 ,  B01D2259/414 ,  B01D2259/655 ,  B01J2219/00921

摘要： This invention relates to a process for separating a fluid component from a fluid mixture comprising the fluid component, the process comprising: (A) flowing the fluid mixture into a microchannel separator; the microchannel separator comprising a plurality of process microchannels containing a sorption medium, a header and a footer, the combined internal volume of the header and the footer being up to about 40% of the internal volume of the process microchannels; the fluid mixture being maintained in the microchannel separator until at least part of the fluid component is sorbed by the sorption medium; purging the microchannel separator to displace non-sorbed parts of the fluid mixture from the microchannel separator; and (B) desorbing the fluid component from the sorption medium and flowing a flush fluid through the microchannel separator to displace the desorbed fluid component from the microchannel separator. The process is suitable for purifying oxygen as well as effecting other fluid separations.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及从包含流体组分的流体混合物中分离流体组分的方法，该方法包括：（A）将流体混合物流入微通道分离器; 所述微通道分离器包括多个包含吸附介质，集管和页脚的工艺微通道，所述集管和所述页脚的组合内部容积高达所述工艺微通道内部体积的约40％; 流体混合物保持在微通道分离器中，直到至少部分流体组分被吸附介质吸收; 清洗微通道分离器以从微通道分离器移出流体混合物的未吸附部分; 和（B）从吸附介质中解吸流体组分并使冲洗流体流过微通道分离器以将解吸的流体组分从微通道分离器移位。 该方法适用于净化氧气以及进行其他流体分离。