Loading of solid particles into a vessel
AssigneePetroval
InventorsOlivier Girard, François Guerrand, Adriaan Stander, Giuseppe Galassini
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Abstract
A device (20) for distribution of solid particles (22) for loading a vessel with solid particles, comprising a solid particles feed hopper (21), a rotating member and a drive member for driving in rotation said rotating member about a rotation axis, and a set of at least one deflector element (25, 25′, 25″) carried by said rotating member and erected, or adapted to be erected, on rotation of the shaft, relative to the rotation axis, in which device the feed hopper defines a set of at least one opening (29) conformed in an asymmetric manner relative to the rotation axis, defining at most one plane of symmetry passing through the rotation axis.
Claims14
A device for distribution of solid particles when loading a vessel with said particles, comprising:
- a solid particle feed hopper defining a set of at least one opening for evacuation of the particles from the hopper by gravity,
- a rotating member and a drive member coupled to said rotating member to drive said rotating member in rotation about a rotation axis having a vertical direction,
- downstream of the set of at least one opening of the feed hopper a set of at least one deflector element carried by said rotating member erected relative to the rotation axis or adapted to be erected relative to the rotation axis,
- characterized in that the set of at least one opening in the feed hopper is conformed in an asymmetric manner relative to the rotation axis, defining at most one plane of symmetry passing through the rotation axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.