Gas-gas phase contactor
AssigneeRhone-Poulenc Chimie de Base
InventorFrancois Prudhon
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Abstract
A gas-gas phase contactor/process, especially adopted for high temperature reactions, e.g., for the production of hydrochloric acid, comprises means for separately establishing at least two disparate gaseous feedstreams, means for disintegrating each such feedstream into a registered plurality of substreams thereof, one of each such substream being complementary to at least one eother, and means for establishing homogeneous unit volumes of gaseous reaction mixture which comprise said complementary fractions of each such disintegrated feedstream.
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A process for intimately contacting and reacting at least two disparate gaseous phases, comprising the steps of:
- A. separately establishing at least two disparate gaseous feedstreams of said at least two gaseous phases, respectively,
- B. separating each of said feedstreams into a plurality of substreams such that all of one of said gaseous phases is divided into a plurality of first substreams and all of another of said gaseous phases is divided into a plurality of second substreams, the number of said first substreams equaling the number of said second substreams,
- C. directing each of said first substreams toward a respective one of said second substreams within a chamber to combine each of said first substreams with a respective one of the second substreams at a respective separate mixing zone before said second substreams are combined with one another and before said first substreams are combined with one another, in order to establish a plurality of homogeneous blended mixtures of said first and second gaseous phases,
- D. thereafter combining together said blended mixtures to form a final mixture, and
- E. thereafter reacting said first and second gaseous phases of said final mixture.
Apparatus for intimately contacting and reacting at least two disparate gaseous phases, comprising:
- means for separately establishing at least two disparate gaseous feedstreams of said at least two gaseous phases, respectively,
- a chamber,
- feedstream separating means for separating each of said feedstreams into a plurality of substreams such that all of one of said gaseous phases is divided into a plurality of first substreams and all of another of said gaseous phases is divided into a plurality of second substreams, the number of said first substreams equaling the number of said second substreams,
- said feedstream separating means directing each of said first substreams toward a respective one of said second substreams within said chamber to combine each of said first substreams with a respective one of said second substreams at a respective separate mixing zone before said first substreams are combined with one another and before said second substreams are combined with one another, to establish a plurality of homogeneous blended mixtures of said first and second gaseous phases,
- combining means for combining said blended mixtures so as to form a final mixture, and
- means causing said first and second gaseous phases of said final mixture to react.
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