Loading patent…
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsAnthony Yu-Chung Ku, Kevin Paul McEvoy, Patrick Daniel Willson, Parag Parkash Kulkarni, Roger Allen Shisler, Anoop Muralidhara Kurup
Estimating the term…
A hybrid multichannel porous structure for processing between two fluid streams of different compositions includes a housing and one or more structures disposed within the cavity of the housing in a shell and tube configuration. Each structure includes a body made of a porous, inorganic material and a plurality of channels for processing an optional sweep stream. Each channel is coated with a membrane layer. A feed stream introduced into the housing is in direct contact with the structures such that a gas selectively permeates through the body and into the channels. The gas combines with the sweep stream to form a permeate that exits from each channel. The remaining feed stream forms a retentate that exits from the housing. The feed stream may consist of syngas containing hydrogen gas and the sweep stream may contain nitrogen gas. A power plant that incorporates the hybrid structure is disclosed.
A hybrid multichannel porous structure for processing between two gas streams of different compositions, the structure comprising:
A hybrid multichannel porous structure comprising a plurality of structures in a shell, the plurality of structures comprising a porous body with a plurality of channels disposed therein, wherein the surface of the channels comprise a support layer, an intermediate layer disposed on the support layer, and a separation layer disposed on the intermediate layer, wherein a feed stream introduced into the shell is in direct contact with the plurality of structures such that a first gas contained in the feed stream selectively permeates through the porous body and into the plurality of channels such that the first gas combines with a second gas contained in a sweep stream passing through the plurality of channels, and wherein a combination of the first gas and the second gas exits the plurality of channels of the porous body as a permeate, and wherein a remainder of the first gas of the feed stream exits the shell as a retentate.
A method for separating a gas, comprising:
A power plant, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.