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US 4,056,373 AGranted
Hydrogen-purification apparatus with palladium-alloy filter coil
AssigneeResource Systems, Inc.
InventorLeonard Roy Rubin
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Abstract
A hydrogen-purification filter has a closed chamber with a pure-hydrogen outlet. A coil made of thin palladium-alloy tubing is contained in this chamber and has an inlet end and an outlet end accessible from outside the chamber. This coil is of D-section so that in case a leak forms the turn of the coil containing the leak can be excised by cutting at the straight sections on both sides of the leak and the remaining coil rejoined at the straight sections.
Claims2
An apparatus for gas purification which comprises:
- a closed chamber;
- an inlet opening into said chamber;
- a bleed opening from said chamber;
- a helical, tubular, palladium-alloy permeation filter coil within said chamber and connected at one end to said inlet opening and at the other end to said bleed opening, said coil having a multiplicity of turns between its ends, at least some of said turns of said helical coil consisting of respective arcuate segments and respective straight segments interconnecting the arcuate segments of adjacent turns;
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- an outlet opening from said chamber.
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