Systems, methods, and devices for industrial tower waste extraction
AssigneeIndustrial Vacuum Transfer Services USA, LLC
InventorRandall Earl Thomas
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Abstract
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and devices for removal of undesired materials are disclosed. Production of desired materials may result in the production of undesired materials. The systems, methods, apparatuses, and devices, may provide for removal of the undesired materials from various environments (e.g., industrial, commercial, residential, natural, etc.). The undesired materials may be removed in a substantially continuous manner and may limit or prevent contamination of an ambient environment with the undesired materials. The undesired materials may be removed with high-pressure vacuum through a fluid flow path that keeps the undesired materials from the ambient environment.
Claims31
A system for removing waste material from a reaction vessel, the system comprising:
- a manifold pneumatically coupled to two or more zones of differing elevations of the reaction vessel in which the waste material is disposed;
- a material collector having an interior and pneumatically coupled to the manifold;
- a high-pressure vacuum source pneumatically coupled to the material collector and positioned to generate a high-pressure vacuum of a fluid flow through the interior of the material collector to extract a majority of the waste material from the reaction vessel, through the manifold and into the interior of the material collector;
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- a fluid flow attenuating filter pneumatically coupled to an exhaust of the vacuum source and positioned to:
- filter a minority of the waste material from the fluid flow after passage through the material collector and prior to discharge into an ambient environment, and
- attenuate sound of the high-pressure vacuum of the fluid flow prior to exhaustion of the fluid flow into ambient environment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.