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US 5,291,753 AGranted
Continuous constant pressure system for staging solid-vapor compounds
AssigneeRocky Research
InventorsUwe Rockenfeller, Lance D. Kirol
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Abstract
An improved apparatus for staging solid-vapor complex compounds comprises heat exchange means for transferring heat from super-heated refrigerant vapor from a desorbing reactor to cooled refrigerant vapor directed to an adsorbing reactor. In another embodiment a liquid subcooler is used to cool liquid refrigerant passing from a condenser to an evaporator with cold refrigerant gas directed to an adsorbing reactor from the evaporator.
Claims8
An apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of two or more reactors, each reactor containing a plurality of two or more different compounds comprising a solid reactant adsorbent and a gaseous reactant adsorbed thereon, each of said compounds having a different gaseous reactant vapor pressure, substantially independent of the concentration of the gaseous reactant therein, said compounds arranged in ascending order of gaseous reactant vapor pressure,
- means for supplying a heat transfer fluid to and from said reactors, and means for directing the heat transfer fluid through said reactors in successive thermal communication with said compounds therein,
- a condenser for condensing gaseous reactant desorbed from said compounds, and first means for directing said gaseous reactant from said reactors to said condenser,
- an evaporator for said gaseous reactant, and second means for directing said gaseous reactant from said evaporator to said reactors,
- a first heat exchanger cooperating with said first means and said second means for transferring heat therebetween,
- third means for directing condensed gaseous reactant from said condenser to said evaporator, and
- a second heat exchanger cooperating with said second means and said third means for transferring heat therebetween.
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