System and method for filtering a gas-solids mixture
AssigneeAir Products and Chemicals, Inc.
InventorsGuoqiang Wang, Chii-King Wong, Lucien Zalman
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Abstract
A system for filtering a gas-solids mixture, comprises: a housing; a separating body dividing the housing in a raw gas chamber and a clean gas chamber, the raw gas chamber being accessible via an inlet for the gas-solids mixture and the clean gas chamber comprising an outlet for discharging a cleaned gas; a number of filter elements suspended from the separating body; lower ends of the filter elements being connected to a support grid, the support grid comprising a number of arms; one or more cleaning elements provided on the arms of the support grid for cleaning thereof.
Claims19
System for filtering a gas-solids mixture, the system comprising:
- a housing;
- a separating body dividing the housing into a raw gas section and a clean gas section, the raw gas section being accessible via an inlet for the gas-solids mixture and the clean gas section comprising an outlet for discharging a cleaned gas;
- a number of filter elements suspended from the separating body;
- a support grid, the support grid comprising a number of arms interconnected at nodes, the lower ends of the filter elements being connected to the support grid;
- one or more cleaning elements movably arranged on the arms of the support grid between adjacent nodes for cleaning of the arms.
Method for filtering a gas mixture, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a filter system, comprising a housing, a support grid fixedly arranged in the housing, the support grid comprising a number of arms interconnected at nodes, a number of filter elements arranged on the nodes of the support structure, and cleaning elements movably arranged on the arms of the support grid between adjacent nodes;
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- cleaning of the support grid by vibration and movement of the cleaning elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.