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US 5,730,843 AGranted
Catalytic distillation structure
AssigneeChemical Research & Licensing Company
InventorsWillibrord A. Groten, Derwyn Booker, Clifford S. Crossland
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AssigneeChemical Research & Licensing Company
InventorsWillibrord A. Groten, Derwyn Booker, Clifford S. Crossland
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A contact structure, useful as a distillation structure, has a rigid frame made of two substantially vertical duplicate grids spaced apart and held rigid by a plurality of substantially horizontal rigid members and a plurality of substantially horizontal wire mesh tubes mounted to the grids to form a plurality of fluid pathways among the tubes. For use as a catalytic distillation structure, which serves as both the distillation structure and the catalyst, at least a portion of the wire mesh tubes contain a particulate catalytic material. The catalyst within the tubes provides a reaction zone where catalytic reactions may occur and the wire mesh provides mass transfer surfaces to effect a fractional distillation. The spacing elements provide for a variation of the catalyst density and loading and structural integrity.
A contact structure comprising a rigid framework and a plurality of substantially horizontal fluid permeable tubes mounted to said grids to form a plurality of fluid pathways among said tubes according to the geometry of the system of FIG. 1 having the following relationships:
A contact structure comprising a rigid framework and a plurality of substantially horizontal fluid permeable tubes mounted to said grids to form a plurality of fluid pathways among said tubes according to the geometry of the system of FIG. 1, where x=y having the following relationships:
A distillation column reactor for concurrently carrying out reactions and separating the products from the reactants, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.