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US 6,979,402 B1Granted
Miniature actual moving bed assembly
AssigneeUop LLC
InventorsRobert T. Sprague, Gavin P. Towler, Anil R. Oroskar
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Abstract
An apparatus is presented for separating chemicals using adsorption separation methods. The apparatus uses a plurality of adsorption units holding adsorbent, where the adsorption units positioned in a cylindrical spool, are serially connected and the spool is rotated to shift the relative position of the feeds and drawoffs to the apparatus.
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A miniature actual moving bed apparatus for the separation of components from a mixture comprising:
- a generally cylindrical spool defining a plurality of adsorbent bed channels, wherein each adsorbent bed channel holds a bed of adsorbent material;
- a bottom plate assembly having connecting channels defined in the plate assembly, affixed to the spool, and providing fluid communication between pairs of adsorbent bed channels;
- a stator plate assembly having cross channels defined in the plate assembly providing fluid communication between adsorbent bed channels, and a plurality of ports providing fluid communication with net flow lines;
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- means for rotating the spool and bottom plate assembly.
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A miniature actual moving bed apparatus for the separation of components from a mixture comprising:
- a generally cylindrical spool defining a plurality of adsorbent bed channels, wherein each adsorbent bed channel holds a bed of adsorbent material;
- a bottom plate assembly having connecting channels defined in the plate assembly and providing fluid communication between pairs of adsorbent bed channels;
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- a stator plate assembly having cross channels defined in the plate assembly providing fluid communication between adsorbent bed channels, and having a plurality of ports for desorbent inflows, at least one raffinate net outflow port, at least one mixture feed inflow port, and at least one extract net outflow port.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.