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US 10,662,986 B2Granted
Use of treating elements to facilitate flow in vessels
AssigneeCrystaphase Products, Inc.
InventorsJohn N. Glover, Peter Gregory Ham, Austin Schneider
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Abstract
A method for facilitating the distribution of the flow of one or more streams within a bed vessel is provided. Disposed within the bed vessel are internal materials and structures including multiple operating zones. One type of operating zone can be a processing zone composed of one or more beds of solid processing material. Another type of operating zone can be a treating zone. Treating zones can facilitate the distribution of the one or more streams fed to processing zones. The distribution can facilitate contact between the feed streams and the processing materials contained in the processing zones.
Claims25
A vessel for treating a process stream, the vessel comprising:
- a first processing zone containing a plurality of randomly packed processing materials;
- a second processing zone containing a plurality of randomly packed processing materials;
- and
- a redistribution zone located between the first processing zone and the second processing zone, the redistribution zone comprising a mix of both processing materials and treating elements, the treating elements having one or more openings formed therein or therethrough,
- wherein there is no space between the upstream processing zone and the redistribution treating zone, and wherein no space between the upstream processing zone and the downstream processing zone is consumed by a structure internal to the process vessel.
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A vessel comprising:
- a vessel inlet;
- a first processing zone disposed downstream of the vessel inlet, the first processing zone containing one or more beds of processing materials;
- a bed zone disposed upstream of the first processing zone;
- a redistribution zone disposed downstream of the first processing zone, the redistribution zone containing a plurality of treating elements, wherein the treating elements are randomly packed within the entire height of the redistribution zone;
- a second processing zone disposed downstream of the redistribution zone, the second processing zone containing one or more beds of processing materials;
- and
- a vessel outlet disposed downstream of the second processing zone,
- wherein the redistribution zone is located adjacent the first processing zone and wherein there is no physical barrier located between the redistribution zone and the first processing zone in the vessel, such that at least some of the processing materials from the first processing zone can migrate into the redistribution treating zone and commingle with the treating elements to create a combo-zone containing a mix of both processing materials and treating elements and having both processing zone functionality and treating zone functionality,
- and wherein no space between the upstream processing zone and the downstream processing zone is consumed by a structure internal to the process vessel.
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A vessel comprising:
- a vessel inlet;
- a first processing zone disposed downstream of the vessel inlet, the first processing zone containing one or more beds of processing materials;
- a bed zone disposed upstream of the first processing zone;
- a redistribution zone disposed downstream of the first processing zone, the redistribution zone containing a plurality of treating elements;
- a second processing zone disposed downstream of the redistribution zone, the second processing zone containing one or more beds of processing materials;
- and
- a vessel outlet disposed downstream of the second processing zone,
- wherein there is a permeable barrier above the redistribution zone that is capable of preventing migration of processing materials into the redistribution zone while allowing a process stream to pass into the redistribution zone,
- and wherein no space between the upstream processing zone and the downstream processing zone is consumed by a structure internal to the process vessel.
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A vessel for treating a process stream, the vessel comprising:
- a first processing zone containing a plurality of randomly packed processing materials;
- a second processing zone containing a plurality of randomly packed processing materials;
- and
- a redistribution zone located between the first processing zone and the second processing zone, the redistribution zone comprising a mix of both processing materials and treating elements, the treating elements having one or more openings formed therein or therethrough,
- wherein the treating elements have one or more asperities formed on the surfaces thereof, the asperities comprising one or more of flutes, fins, struts, filaments, spikes or hairs.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.