Cross-corrugated packing made from metal foam
AssigneeL'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude
InventorsDavid FRIMAT, Daniel GARY, Clement LIX, Frederic ROUSEAU, Bernard SAULNIER, Mikael WATTIAU
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Abstract
Disclosed is a packing made up of a stack of plates, having been shaped to form corrugations in the plate and assembled to form a cross-corrugated packing block for a mass and/or heat transfer application, wherein the material of the packing plates is an open-pore metal foam, and in that the specific surface area of the packing is greater than 500 m2/m3 and in that the thickness (e) of the plate is less than 2 mm before the shaping operation.
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A packing made from a stack of leaves having been shaped to form corrugations in the leaf and assembled to form a pack of packing for a mass and/or heat transfer application, the material of the packing leaves being a metal foam, wherein the leaves are assembled to form a cross-corrugated pack of packing, the material of the packing leaves is an open-pore metal foam, in that the specific surface area of the packing is greater than 500 m2/m3, and in that the thickness of the leaf is less than 2 mm before the shaping operation.
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