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US 4,061,807 AGranted
Adsorbent body and method for making same
OwnerAmos J. Shaler, Daniel C. McLeaninventors
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In accordance with the invention there is provided a porous adsorbent body comprising an array of granules of adsorbent material and particles of thermoplastic organic polymer bonded to the granules with at least some of the particles bridging contiguous granules thereby bonding them together to form a self-sustaining body having interstices which open into each other for admission of fluid to the surface of the granules in the interior of the body. Further in accordance with the invention such adsorbent body is made by forming a uniform mixture of the granules of adsorbent material and the particles of thermoplastic organic polymer and then heating the mixture to a temperature above the softening temperature but below the melting temperature of the thermoplastic polymer thereby to bond the granules together.
A porous adsorbent body comprising an array of granules of adsorbent material and particles of nylon having a size from about 200 to 600 mesh bonded to said granules with at least some of said particles bridging between contiguous granules and bonding them together at discrete regions to form a self-sustaining body, said granules having a size of from about 8 to 60 mesh and defining interstices which open into each other between said regions for admission of fluid to the surface of the granules in the interior of said body, the ratio between the amounts of the adsorbent granules and the particulate nylon being within the range of from about 60 to 95 parts by volume of the granules to from 5 to 40 parts by volume of the particulate nylon.
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