Apparatus and method for enhancing yield and transfer rate of a packed bed
AssigneeUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation
InventorsBradley David Irvin, Kunlei Liu, Roger S. Perrone
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Abstract
A method of enhancing yield and transfer rate of a packed bed in a reactor chamber of a vessel includes steps of applying acoustic energy to the packed bed, measuring impedance of the packed bed deriving a natural resonance frequency of the packed bed from the measured impedance and applying the acoustic energy to the packed bed at the derived natural resonance frequency of the packed bed.
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A method of enhancing yield and transfer rate of a packed bed in a reaction chamber of a vessel, comprising:
- applying acoustic energy to the packed bed;
- measuring impedance of the packed bed;
- deriving a natural resonance frequency for the packed bed from the measured impedance;
- and
- applying the acoustic energy to the packed bed at the derived natural resonance frequency of the packed bed.
A method of enhancing yield and transfer rate of a packed bed in a reactor chamber of a vessel comprising:
- deriving a natural resonance frequency of the packed bed within a frequency bandwidth of desired operation;
- and
- outputting a driving signal to at least one acoustic resonance at the derived resonance frequency and at a predetermined amplitude whereby the yield and the transfer rate from the packed bed is increased.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.