Patents Represented by Attorney Kellogg Brown and Root, Inc.
  • Patent number: 6902593
    Abstract: A multi-cyclone gas/solids separator with reduced solids re-entrainment is disclosed. The separator uses a plurality of cyclones spaced horizontally apart from adjacent cyclones to process flue gas containing residual catalyst fines. Each cyclone has a body that has a feed inlet end for admitting gas and entrained solids into an annular space defined by a sidewall of the cyclone body and a cylindrical gas outlet tube axially aligned with the cyclone body. A solids outlet at an opposing end of the cyclone body has a tangential outlet for solids and a minor amount of gas through a sidewall of the cyclone body. A gas reflux opening is axially aligned with the outlet tube. The plurality of cyclones share both a common catch chamber for solids discharged from the solids outlet, and a common manifold for gas and entrained solids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Kellogg Brown and Root, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard B. Miller, Eusebius Gbordzoe, Yong-Lin Yang, Suisheng M. Dou, David Lee Johnson