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US 11,484,860 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for enhancing yield and transfer rate of a packed bed
AssigneeUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation
InventorsBradley David Irvin, Kunlei Liu, Roger S. Perrone
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Abstract
An apparatus for enhancing a yield and a transfer rate of a packed bed includes a packed bed, a vessel having a reaction chamber, a support frame and acoustic attenuator for holding the packed bed in the reaction chamber, at least one acoustic transducer adapted to transmit acoustic energy into the packed bed and an acoustic generator. The acoustic generator has impedance matching functionality.
Claims9
An apparatus, comprising:
- a vessel including a reaction chamber;
- a support frame and acoustic attenuator held in the reaction chamber;
- a packed bed carried on the support frame and acoustic attenuator;
- at least one acoustic transducer adapted to transmit acoustic energy into the packed bed;
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- an acoustic generator having impedance matching functionality adapted to derive a natural resonance frequency of the packed bed within a frequency bandwidth of desired operation and output a driving signal to the at least one acoustic transducer at the derived resonance frequency and at a predetermined amplitude whereby yield and transfer rate from the packed bed is increased.
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