Compact contacting device
AssigneePraxair Technology, Inc.
InventorsArun Acharya, Christian F. Gottzmann, Michael J. Lockett, James S. Schneider, Richard A. Victor, Robert Zawierucha
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Abstract
An apparatus comprising a rotatable mass of structured packing for mass or heat transfer between two contacting fluids of different densities wherein the packing mass is made up of corrugated sheets of involute shape relative to the axis of the packing mass and form a logarithmic spiral curved counter to the direction of rotation.
Claims6
An apparatus for mass or heat transfer between two contacting fluids of different densities comprising a rotatable mass of structured packing which provides distribution of one fluid in at least the direction parallel to the axis upon rotation as said one fluid is directed outwardly by means from the center of said mass of structured packing and is expelled by rotation of said mass outwardly through said mass in counter-current contact with a fluid of lesser density moving inwardly through said mass from means on the outside of said mass wherein the packing mass is made up of corrugated sheets of involute shape relative to the axis of the packing mass and form a logarithmic spiral curved counter to the direction of rotation of the mass of structured packing, said corrugated sheets having corrugations in crossing relationship to each adjacent corrugated sheet.
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