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US 5,581,903 AGranted
Apparatus for heating purge gas and transmitting microwave energy for desiccant regeneration
OwnerLeon A. Botichinventor
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An improved regenerative gas drying system (30) having an adsorbing chamber (36) and a regenerating chamber (46) with both chambers containing desiccant (38) in which the adsorbing chamber (36) receives wet gas (31) for adsorption of moisture by the desiccant (38) contained therein to create a drier gas (40) and in which a portion of the drier gas (40) exits the adsorbing chamber (36) and is directed and carried to the regenerating chamber (46) to dry the desiccant (38) contained within the regenerating chamber (46). A chamber drier gas heating apparatus has a conduit (55) disposed within the desiccant (38) of the regenerating chamber (46) in which the conduit (55) carries the drier gas (40) directed from the adsorbing chamber (36) to the regenerating chamber (46) and includes a microwave antenna (48) in communication with microwaves (50) generated by a microwave generator (54) coupled with the antenna (48) in which at least a portion of the antenna (48) is positioned within desiccant (38) contained in the regenerating chamber (46). A method is further provided for positioning a conduit (55) within the desiccant (38) of the regenerating chamber (46) in which the conduit (55) carries the drier gas (40) directed from the adsorbing chamber (36) to the regenerating chamber (46) and positioning a microwave antenna (48) in communication with microwaves (50) generated by a microwave generator (54) coupled with the antenna (48) in which at least a portion of the antenna (48) is positioned within desiccant (38) contained in the regenerating chamber (46).
In a regenerative gas drying system having an adsorbing chamber and a regenerating chamber with both chambers containing desiccant in which the adsorbing chamber receives wet gas for adsorption of moisture by the desiccant contained therein to create a gas drier than the wet gas received by the desiccant chamber and in which a portion of the drier gas exiting the adsorbing chamber is directed and carried to the regenerating chamber to dry the desiccant contained within the regenerating chamber, the improvement being a regenerating chamber drier gas heating apparatus comprising:
A method for drying desiccant in a regenerative gas drying system having an adsorbing chamber and a regenerating chamber with both chambers containing desiccant in which the adsorbing chamber receives wet gas for adsorption of moisture by the desiccant contained therein to create a drier gas and in which a portion of the drier gas exiting the adsorbing chamber is directed and carried to the regenerating chamber to dry the desiccant contained within the regenerating chamber, comprising the steps of:
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