Patents Represented by Attorney Barnard A. Reiter
  • Patent number: 4878931
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for recovering vapor from an air/vapor process stream. The system is operated in two stages, a high temperature stage and a low temperature stage. The high temperature stage may be referred to as a condenser column. The low temperature stage is referred to as the stripper column. The air/solvent vapor stream is conducted first through the condenser column and then through the stripper column. A countercurrent flow of liquid solvent is provided to both the condenser column and the stripper column. In the low temperature stage (condenser column), the countercurrent flow of liquid solvent is at a temperature near but above the freezing point of water. This results in the removal of most of the solvent vapor and water vapor from the air/solvent vapor mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1989
    Assignee: Quadrex HPS Inc.
    Inventor: David C. H. Grant