Heat transfer packing element
AssigneeKnight Material Technologies LLC
InventorsIzak Nieuwoudt, Karl-Heinz Schofalvi
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Abstract
A packing element for use in a heat exchange or mass transfer tower includes a barrel and a plurality of fins spaced around a circumference of the barrel, each fin having a height approximately equal to a height of the barrel and a length extending radially from the barrel, a proximate end of each fin attached perpendicularly to the barrel. A protrusion extends outward from the distal end or each fin along its height. A method for mass transfer includes passing fluids through a vessel packed with randomly arranged packing elements.
Claims16
A packing element for use in a heat exchange or mass transfer tower, said packing element comprising:
- a cylindrical barrel having a central axis;
- and
- a plurality of fins extending radially from a circumference of the cylindrical barrel, wherein each fin has a thickness T1 along most of its length L, and each fin further comprises a protrusion on a distal end of the fin, the protrusion extending outward from the fin perpendicularly to the fin's length L, the protrusion having an obround cross section, and wherein the protrusion extends along a height HF of the fins and has a thickness T3 where T3>T1.
A packing element for use in a heat exchange or mass transfer tower, said packing element comprising:
- a cylindrical barrel having a central axis, a height, and one or more radial holes centered at a midpoint of the height;
- and
- a plurality of fins extending radially from a circumference of the cylindrical barrel, each fin comprising a protrusion at the distal end of the fin extending outward from the fin perpendicularly, the protrusion having an oval cross section.
A packing element for use in a heat exchange or mass transfer tower, said packing element comprising:
- a cylindrical barrel having a central axis;
- and
- a plurality of fins extending radially from a circumference of the cylindrical barrel, wherein each fin has a length, and a proximate end of each fin is attached to the barrel at an attachment point perpendicularly to a tangent of the circumference of the cylindrical barrel at the attachment point, and each fin has a thickness T1 along most of its length, the fin having a thickness T2 at the proximate end and T2>T1, wherein the thickness of the fin gradually transitions from T2 to T1.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.