Rotating packed bed reactor

Abstract

An apparatus for a rotating packed bed reactor (RPB) that may be used to increase the mass-transfer rate between materials, such as a gas and a liquid, through the RPB. The rotor of the RPB may be rotatably driven within a housing at least in part by the direction of a gas in a tangential direction relative to an outer circumferential surface of the rotor. An RPB may include a housing having a gas inlet, a liquid inlet, a gas outlet, and a liquid outlet. The rotor includes a permeable packing configured to facilitate contact between the liquid and the gas passing through the permeable packing while the rotor rotates with respect to the housing. The gas inlet is configured to direct the gas tangentially with respect to the outer circumferential surface of the rotor to thereby cause the rotor to rotate with respect to the housing.

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