Abstract: An adsorber system wherein an air/vapor mixture is alternatively fed to a pair of functionally interchangeable adsorbers and the vapor is removed from the air in one of these adsorbers while the other adsorber is subjected to regeneration with steam, and the two adsorbers are then functionally interchanged so that the regenerator adsorber recovers vapor from the mixture and the other adsorber is then subjected to steam regeneration. An adsorber to be regenerated is connected to an adsorber operating to remove vapor from the mixture at one side of the adsorber to be regenerated and steam to the adsorber to be regenerated is admitted from the other side thereof, thereby driving air containing vapor from the adsorber to be regenerated into the other adsorber.

Abstract: An adsorption device for the treatment of gases with a solid adsorbent comprises a disk-shaped cylindrical vessel having a horizontal axis and planar parallel vertical end walls, the conduits being connected to the vessel wall, preferably at diametrically opposite locations so that a number of such vessels may be horizontally stacked with or without removal of intervening end walls, thereby increasing the adsorption capacity of the installation or making it possible to operate two adsorption cells in functionally interchanging relationship such that one may be regenerated while the other serves to adsorb a component from a gas stream.