Treatment system
AssigneeCF Vessel LLC
InventorColby Friday
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Abstract
A treatment system for remediating some forms of sulfur, CO2, and other contaminants/impurities from a gas stream includes at least one of a process vessel and a treatment coil. Each of the vessel and treatment coil have internals, different in design from each other, which promote intimate mixing and extended contact time between a treatment composition and a gas being treated. The vessel, which additionally facilitates vapor/liquid separation, operates about one-half to two-thirds full of liquid treatment composition. In some embodiments, the treatment coil is a serpentine arrangement of piping, into which the atomized treatment composition is injected on a continuous basis.
Claims20
A system comprising a treatment coil, the treatment coil including a serpentine arrangement of pipe, wherein the serpentine arrangement comprises:
- a number, n, of straight segments of pipe,
- a number, n−1, of u-bends, wherein the n−1 u-bends couple the n straight segments of pipe together to create the serpentine arrangement, and
- a unitary internal structure having a helical form, wherein a direction of curvature of the helical form is constant, and wherein the internal structure is disposed in one of the straight segments of pipe, and has a length that is substantially equal to a length of the one straight segment of pipe.
A system comprising a first treatment coil, the first treatment coil comprising a serpentine arrangement of pipe having a first length, wherein the serpentine arrangement of pipe comprises a first plurality of straight segments of pipe and a second plurality of u-bends, wherein the u-bends couple the straight segments of pipe together to create the serpentine arrangement;
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- a plurality of internal structures, wherein respective ones of the internal structure are disposed in respective ones of the straight segments of pipe, and wherein each internal structure has a length that is substantially equal to a length of the respective straight segment of pipe, and wherein each of the internal structures has a helical form having a direction of curvature that is the same for all of the internal structures.
A system comprising a treatment coil, the first treatment coil comprising a plurality of pipes that are fluidically coupled together, the pipes being arranged in either a linear form or a non-linear form;
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- a plurality of identically configured internal structures disposed in at least some of the pipes of the plurality thereof, wherein each of the internal structures has a helical form with a single and unchanging direction of curvature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.