Exchange column contactor consisting of random packing compartments
AssigneeIfp Energies Nouvelles
InventorsYacine Haroun, Pascal Alix
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Abstract
A contactor includes a random packing arrangement in several compartments. The compartments can be delimited by perforated plates or by structured packing walls. A heat and/or material exchange column is equipped with such a contactor. A floating structure includes such a column. A column equipped with such a contactor can be used for a gas treatment, CO2 capture, distillation or air conversion process.
Claims20
A column intended for heat and/or material exchange between two fluids, the column comprising:
- at least one contactor comprising a random packing made up of anarchic and random piles of unit elements, said random packing being distributed among several compartments delimited by at least one wall splitting the random packing in the axial direction of contactor, the at least one wall is configured to allow and attenuate lateral displacement of the two fluids, wherein at least one wall consists of a structured packing;
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- at least one distributor tray for distributing of fluid onto the contactor.
A floating structure, characterized in that it comprises at least one column intended for heat and/or material exchange between a gas and a liquid, the column comprising:
- at least one contactor comprising a random packing made up of anarchic and random piles of unit elements, said random packing being distributed among several compartments delimited by at least one wall splitting the random packing in the axial direction of contactor, the at least one wall is configured to allow and attenuate lateral displacement of the two fluids;
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- at least one distributor tray for distributing of fluid onto the contactor.
A column intended for heat and/or material exchange between two fluids, the column comprising:
- at least one contactor comprising a random packing made up of anarchic and random piles of unit elements, said random packing being distributed among several compartments delimited by at least one wall splitting the random packing in the axial direction of contactor, the at least one wall is configured to allow and attenuate lateral displacement of the two fluids;
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- at least one distributor tray for distributing of fluid onto the contactor, wherein the at least one distributor tray is vertically arranged over the at least one contactor, and has a first set openings configured to distribute liquid downwardly onto the contactor and a second set of openings configured to allow gas from the contactor to flow upwardly out of the contactor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.