Process and device for separating liquid from a multiphase mixture
AssigneeSolvay SA
InventorsJal Rustom Dadabhoy, Massimo Fedeli, Patrick Markus Dhaese, Yvan Frans Van Hoof
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Abstract
Process and device for separating liquid from a multiphase mixture contained in a vessel and comprising solid particles and at least one liquid phase forming together at least one suspension, and a gas phase in which at least part of the mixture is circulated through at least one cross-flow filter located outside the vessel, therefore separating said part of the mixture into a filtered liquid and a concentrate.
Claims15
A process for separating liquid from a multiphase mixture contained in a vessel and comprising solid particles and at least one liquid phase forming together at least one suspension, and a gas phase flowing upwards through the suspension such that a gas-lift effect occurs inside the vessel, in which at least part of the multiphase mixture, optionally at least partially degassed, is circulated through at least one cross-flow filter located outside the vessel, therefore separating said part of the multiphase mixture into a filtered liquid and a concentrate, wherein said part of the multiphase mixture circulates through the cross-flow filter using the natural recirculation provided by the gas-lift effect occurring inside the vessel, and wherein the tangential velocity of said multiphase mixture, continuously impoverished in filtered liquid, along a filter medium is of from 400 to 2000 times the trans-medium velocity of the filtered liquid through the filter medium.
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