摘要:
A reactor cartridge includes a plurality of spaced-apart monoliths, formed along a tube or other mandrel. Each monolith is formed of a pair of flat and corrugated metal strips, spirally wound around the tube. These strips could be made of solid or screen material. The corrugations are skewed, such that the monolith imparts a swirl to gases flowing through it. The corrugations of the strips in adjacent monoliths are oriented differently, so that successive monoliths impart different swirls to the gases, so as to promote mixing of gases and better heat transfer from the exterior to the interior of the cartridge. An insertion and removal tool simplifies the procedure for stacking such cartridges in a long pipe, or for removing cartridges from the pipe. The all-metal construction facilitates heat transfer through the entire reactor, and avoids the problems associated with packed ceramic beds.
摘要:
A fluid contacting device comprising of a bundle of notched and precontoured strips which are notched periodically at edges and shaped by giving proper orientation (twist) so that the liquid trickling down the strip flows and spreads on the contoured roughened surface simultaneously alternating back and forth on the two opposite sides of the strip and intermixing from one strip to adjoining ones through plurality of contact points achieved with haystack bundle like winding of alternately inclined strips around equipment axis to achieve intimate contact between trickling film and other phase traveling in the twisting channels.
摘要:
A catalyst support is formed of a monolith having corrugated metal leaves. The corrugations of each leaf are oblique relative to the edges of the leaf. Each leaf extends from an interior region to an exterior region, and has corrugations that are non-parallel to the corrugations in an adjacent leaf. Each leaf also includes slits, and is coated with a suitable catalyst. A set of monoliths, made as described above, are stacked within a cylindrical pipe. The corrugations define gas flow channels, which enable heat applied to the exterior of the pipe to travel to the center of the monolith, and back to the outside. The support of the present invention thus facilitates heat transfer to essentially all regions of the monolith. The invention also inherently overcomes the problem associated with thermal mismatch between the metal pipe and a ceramic catalyst material.
摘要:
A closely coiled multilayered element ("element") for use in filtration of gases, particularly with compressed air, is disclosed, which is a coiled cylindrically-shaped packing, spiralled about a common central axis where each successive layer essentially touches the previous layer. The materials of construction of the element are polyolefins, and, preferably for compressed air, polyethylene where the molecular weight may be as low as 2.5 million. The elements do not compress, thus keeping the void volume open in normal use for trapping both entrained solids and liquids, even if the liquids are dissimilar, such as oil and water. A method for manufacturing the invention which comprises cutting individual pieces of bed packing material from a solid core is also disclosed and the process of gas purification is described.
摘要:
A method for the separation of isobutene from a mixture comprising n-butene and isobutene comprising feeding a C.sub.4 stream containing n-butene and isobutene to a distillation column reactor into a feed zone contacting the stream with fixed bed acidic cation exchange resin to form diisobutene which passes to the bottom of the column, said n-butene being removed overhead. The reaction and distillation occur concurrently.
摘要:
A catalyst support is formed of a monolith having corrugated metal leaves. The corrugations of each leaf are oblique relative to the edges of the leaf. Each leaf extends from an interior region to an exterior region, and has corrugations that are non-parallel to the corrugations in an adjacent leaf. Each leaf also includes slits, and is coated with a suitable catalyst. A set of monoliths, made as described above, are stacked within a cylindrical pipe. The corrugations define gas flow channels, which enable heat applied to the exterior of the pipe to travel to the center of the monolith, and back to the outside. The support of the present invention thus facilitates heat transfer to essentially all regions of the monolith. The invention also inherently overcomes the problem associated with thermal mismatch between the metal pipe and a ceramic catalyst material.
摘要:
The present invention relates to high efficient tubular catalytic steam reforming reactor configured from about 0.2 inch to about 2 inch inside diameter high temperature metal alloy tube or pipe and loaded with a plurality of rolled catalyst inserts comprising metallic monoliths. The catalyst insert substrate is formed from a single metal foil without a central supporting structure in the form of a spiral monolith. The single metal foil is treated to have 3-dimensional surface features that provide mechanical support and establish open gas channels between each of the rolled layers. This unique geometry accelerates gas mixing and heat transfer and provides a high catalytic active surface area. The small diameter, high aspect ratio tubular catalytic steam reforming reactors loaded with rolled catalyst inserts can be arranged in a multi-pass non-vertical parallel configuration thermally coupled with a heat source to carry out steam reforming of hydrocarbon-containing feeds. The rolled catalyst inserts are self-supported on the reactor wall and enable efficient heat transfer from the reactor wall to the reactor interior, and lower pressure drop than known particulate catalysts. The heat source can be oxygen transport membrane reactors.
摘要:
A tower (A) for effecting heat transfer or chemical reactions contains a packing (B) formed from a multitude of packing elements (2, 28). Each element includes a peripheral wall (10, 30) and a convoluted interior wall (12, 32) that spirals inwardly from the peripheral wall toward the center of the element, thus forming a convoluted passage (14, 34) through the element. The convoluted passages in the elements capture the flow of fluid through the packing so that less fluid follows voids between the elements and more flows through the elements. Moreover, the convoluted interior wall of each element provides a large surface area for heat transfer or chemical reactions.