Abstract: In an integrated process for the recovery of alkakli metal phenates and carboxylates from aqueous solutions thereof, the aqueous solution is spray dried and the drying gas stream is contacted with an aqueous alkali metal salt solution which dissolves the particles of the alkali metal salt that were entrained in the drying gas stream. The salt-free inert gas stream is then dried, heated, and returned to the spray dryer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for accurately controlling the splitting and/or proportionalizing of a flowing liquid into two preset flows. The device is capable of maintaining the desired preset quantitative relationship between incoming and outgoing flows regardless of the flow characteristics of the incoming liquid. The incoming liquid is directed to a distributor located within a collector housing and regardless of the incoming flow rate, is fed uniformly in the form of a flat sheet or curtain into the collector(s). The collector is divided into two collector chambers by partitions located on opposite sides of a central column with the flow distributor connected to a shaft rotatably mounted within the central column so as to place one of the partitions in the flow path of the liquid emerging from the distributor, thereby splitting that flow.