Use of treating elements to facilitate flow in vessels
AssigneeCrystaphase Products, Inc.
InventorsJOHN N. GLOVER, PETER GREGORY HAM, AUSTIN SCHNEIDER
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Abstract
A method for facilitating the distribution of the flow of one or more streams within a bed vessel is provided. Disposed within the bed vessel are internal materials and structures including multiple operating zones. One type of operating zone can be a processing zone composed of one or more beds of solid processing material. Another type of operating zone can be a treating zone. Treating zones can facilitate the distribution of the one or more streams fed to processing zones. The distribution can facilitate contact between the feed streams and the processing materials contained in the processing zones.
Claims6
A vessel for treating a process stream, the vessel comprising:
- a first processing zone containing a plurality of randomly packed processing materials;
- a second processing zone containing a plurality of randomly packed processing materials;
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- a redistribution zone located between the first processing zone and the second processing zone, the redistribution zone comprising a mix of both processing materials and treating elements, the treating elements having one or more openings formed therein or therethrough.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.