Separator and unloading device
AssigneeSoftard Industries Co., Ltd.
InventorsTomokazu Yanokuchi, Keiichi Yamaguchi, Masayuki Kidokoro, Katsuhiko Kawakami
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Abstract
An unloading device includes: a separator connected to a suction hose connected to the reactor and to another suction hose connected to a vacuum car, the separator separating a catalyst sucked from the reactor by the vacuum car from air; a flexible container bag for storing the catalyst dropped from the separator; and a dumping hose provided between the separator and the flexible container bag for transferring the catalyst dropped from the separator to the flexible container bag. The separator includes a blower unit for blowing a gas to the catalyst unloaded in the separator body toward a lower cone and a cover that openably closes a catalyst outlet.
Claims7
A separator that is in communication with a reactor loaded with a catalyst through a first connection hose and in communication with a vacuum unit through a second connection hose, the separator separating the catalyst sucked by the vacuum unit from the reactor from air, the separator comprising:
- a separator body that stores the catalyst;
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- a blower unit provided to the separator body for blowing a gas toward a bottom of the separator body to the catalyst sucked by the vacuum unit through the first connection hose.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.