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.
Claims27
A method of improving flow distribution of one or more streams in a process vessel comprising:
- passing the one or more streams through an upstream processing zone and a downstream processing zone within the process vessel, the upstream processing zone and downstream processing zone each containing one or more beds of processing materials;
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- passing the one or more streams through a redistribution treating zone located between the upstream processing zone and downstream processing zone, wherein the redistribution treating zone contains treating elements and wherein the redistribution treating zone mitigates stream channeling of the streams exiting the upstream processing zone and affects lateral redistribution of the flow of the one or more streams within the downstream processing zone.
A method of improving the flow distribution of one or more streams in a process vessel, the process vessel having at least two processing zones containing beds of solid processing materials disposed therein, the method comprising:
- disposing at least one redistribution treating zone between the processing zones, the redistribution treating zone containing a plurality of treating elements operable to mitigate stream channeling and to redistribute the flow of streams thru the redistribution treating zone, wherein the processing materials are commingling with the treating elements in the redistribution treating zone to form a combo-zone with both processing materials and treating elements.
A method of improving the flow distribution of one or more streams in a process vessel, the process vessel having at least two processing zones containing beds of solid processing materials disposed therein, the method comprising:
- disposing at least one redistribution treating zone between the processing zones, the redistribution treating zone containing a plurality of treating elements operable to mitigate stream channeling and to redistribute the flow of streams thru the redistribution treating zone, wherein the processing materials in the processing zone disposed upstream of the redistribution treating zone are capable of migrating into the redistribution treating zone and commingling with the treating elements s in the redistribution treating zone to form a combo-zone with both processing materials and treating elements.
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