Separator and unloading device
AssigneeSoftard Industries Co., Ltd.
InventorsTomokazu Yanokuchi, Keiichi Yamaguchi, Masayuki Kidokoro, Katsuhiko Kawakami
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Abstract
An unloading device includes: a separator connected to a suction hose connected to the reactor and to another suction hose connected to a vacuum car, the separator separating a catalyst sucked from the reactor by the vacuum car from air; a flexible container bag for storing the catalyst dropped from the separator; and a dumping hose provided between the separator and the flexible container bag for transferring the catalyst dropped from the separator to the flexible container bag. The separator includes a blower unit for blowing a gas to the catalyst unloaded in the separator body toward a lower cone and a cover that openably closes a catalyst outlet.
Claims6
A separator that is in communication with a reactor loaded with a catalyst through a first connection hose and in communication with a vacuum unit through a second connection hose, the separator separating the catalyst sucked by the vacuum unit from the reactor from air, the separator comprising:
- a separator body that stores the catalyst;
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- a blower unit provided to the separator body for blowing a gas toward a bottom of the separator body to the catalyst sucked by the vacuum unit through the first connection hose, the blower being tapered to be wider toward the bottom of the separator body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.