Tower packing elements
AssigneeFractionation Research, Inc.
InventorAnthony Degg
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Abstract
An improved packing element for a fluid-fluid contact apparatus is formed from pieces of sheet material; the elements contain a pair of curved strips connected together at their ends by a pair of generally coplanar bridge members.
Claims11
In a packed tower fluid-fluid contact apparatus having a tower packed with at least one bed of packing elements and means for introducing fluid into the tower for contact therein, the improvement wherein at least some of said packing elements are metallic, each of said metallic packing elements comprising a pair of curved strips connected together at their ends by a pair of generally coplanar bridge members and folded together with said ends of the curved strips in confronting relationship to each other so that a generally tubular member is formed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.