Particulate Media, Shaped Packing Elements (e.g., Raschig Rings, Berl Saddles, Etc.), Or Porous Media For Gas And Liquid Contact Patents (Class 96/290)
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Patent number: 8029753Abstract: An ammonia contact scrubber system (10) for removing ammonia from a fuel stream for a fuel cell (16) includes a contact scrubber (12) having a scrubber fuel inlet (14) and a scrubber fuel exhaust (20) for directing flow of the fuel stream through support material (24) within the scrubber (12) and into the fuel cell (16). An acid circulating loop (26) has an acid holding tank (28) holding a liquid acid solution (30), an acid feed line (32) secured in fluid communication between the holding tank (28) and a scrubber acid inlet (36) of the contact scrubber (12), an acid return (38) for returning the acid solution from the scrubber (12) to the acid holding tank (28), and an acid circulation pump (42) for pumping the acid solution (30) through the acid circulating loop (26) and through the support material (24) within the scrubber (12).Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Inventor: Richard D Breault
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Patent number: 7968063Abstract: A mercury removal apparatus for a liquid hydrocarbon includes a conversion device which converts a mercury component in a raw liquid hydrocarbon into elemental mercury to obtain a first liquid hydrocarbon containing the elemental mercury. The apparatus also includes a first stripping device which brings the first liquid hydrocarbon into counter-current contact with a first stripping gas, thereby transferring the elemental mercury in the first liquid hydrocarbon to the first stripping gas to obtain (i) a second liquid hydrocarbon in which the amount of the elemental mercury decreases and (ii) a first gaseous hydrocarbon containing the elemental mercury.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2006Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignees: JGC Corporation, Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiromitsu Shibuya, Kazuo Sato, Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Senichiro Kaku
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Patent number: 7919304Abstract: A process and system are disclosed for the biofiltration of volatile organic compounds. The process involved recirculating contaminated effluent gas through a biofilter (1), the biofilter (1) having an inlet (20), outlet (15) and micro-organism laden filter media bed (3). The filter media bed additionally having moisture retaining properties. This process has been effective in removing high levels of VOCs from effluent gas streams and also in removing VOCs from an effluent gas stream where the VOC levels and/or volumes of effluent gas vary over time.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2001Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Bord Na MonaInventors: Imelda Egan, Ian Phillips
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Publication number: 20110067994Abstract: A system is configured to remove volatile organic compounds from a container. The system includes an enclosed contactor vessel having a first inlet to receive vapor containing volatile organic compounds from the container and a second inlet. The second inlet receives a vapor capture medium from a source. A contactor facilitates entrainment of the volatile organic compounds with the vapor capture medium while a first outlet recirculates treated vapor back to the container to effect a closed loop.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2009Publication date: March 24, 2011Inventors: Elliott Moorhead, Bryant Hickman
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Patent number: 7892335Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for the transfer of organic compounds from a first liquid phase to a gaseous phase and from said gaseous phase to a second liquid phase, comprising a packed stripping column (2), a housing (5), a shell (1), a means for introducing the gaseous phase at the bottom end of said packed stripping column (2), a distributor (4) for distributing said first liquid phase onto said packed stripping column (2), causing said first liquid phase to trickle down said packed stripping column (2) counter-currently to the flow of the gas phase and causing the gas stream leaving said packed stripping column (2) at its top end to have a higher content of organic compounds than the gaseous phase introduced at the bottom end of said packed stripping column (2), one or more ducts (9/26) allowing the gaseous phase leaving said packed stripping column (2) to flow downwards to the bottom end of a packed scrubber (3) enclosed in a housing (25), a distributor (12) on top of said packed scrubber (3) caType: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: N.V. DeSmet Ballestra Engineering S.A.Inventors: Marc Kellens, Anthony Harper
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Patent number: 7862788Abstract: A chilled ammonia based CO2 capture system and method is provided. A promoter is used to help accelerate certain capture reactions that occur substantially coincident to and/or as a result of contacting a chilled ammonia based ionic solution with a gas stream that contains CO2.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2008Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: ALSTOM Technology LtdInventors: Eli Gal, Otto Morten Bade, Indira Jayaweera, Gopala Krishnan
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Patent number: 7850764Abstract: Generally, the present invention provides a method and apparatus for removing a vapor phase contaminant from a gas stream, thereby reducing the concentration of the vapor phase contaminant in the gas stream. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method for removing a vapor phase contaminant from a gas stream, comprising contacting a gas stream comprising a vapor phase contaminant with a first side of a membrane; sorbing the vapor phase contaminant using the membrane; reacting the vapor phase contaminant into an reacted form of the vapor phase contaminant; transporting the reacted form of the vapor phase contaminant through the membrane to a second side of the membrane; contacting the second side of the membrane with a liquid; and dissolving the reacted form of the vapor phase contaminant into the liquid. Methods for making a membrane comprising a metal for use in the present invention is also described.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2007Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.Inventor: David W. DeBerry
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Patent number: 7850929Abstract: An internal static mixing system such as a disperser of mesh wire or expanded metal co-knit with a multi filament material selected from inert polymers, catalytic polymers, catalytic metals or mixtures in combination with a vertical reactor having a reaction zone and the disperser disposed in said reaction zone, particularly for carrying out paraffin alkylation using acid catalyst is disclosed. The wire mesh provides the structural integrity of the system as well as the open space required in reactors for the movement of vapors and liquids though the system. The disperser may be in sheets, bundles or bales or positioned within a frame.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2006Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Catalytic Distillation TechnologiesInventors: Lawrence A. Smith, Jr., Abraham P. Gelbein, John R. Adams
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Patent number: 7819960Abstract: In one aspect of the invention there is provided a gas scrubbing system for removing contaminants from a flow of fluid, comprising a container having an interior volume, an inlet for receiving the flow of fluid and an outlet for dispensing the stream of fluid, a treatment liquid, a porous medium positioned in the interior volume, between the inlet and outlet, said porous medium providing a high surface area to facilitate chemical interactions between the fluid flow and the treatment liquid and means to apply the treatment liquid onto the porous medium. A contact cell aspect of the porous medium and a method aspect are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2008Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Inventor: Dennis Saboe
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Patent number: 7819942Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a high-molecular polyester from a solidified polyester prepolymer by solid phase polycondensation. The polycondensation cleavage products of the solid phase polycondensation reaction are extracted from the product by means of a process gas, and the process gas is then cleaned and essentially recycled. According to the invention, the process gas is cleaned by means of an aqueous washing liquid. The invention also relates to an installation for carrying out the inventive method, said installation containing a crystallisation appliance (1) and a reaction appliance (2). A gas outlet (2d) of the reaction appliance (2) is directly or indirectly connected to a gas inlet (3c) in a gas cleaning system (3), and a gas outlet (3d) of the gas cleaning system (3) is connected to a gas inlet (2c) of the reaction appliance (2).Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2005Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Buhler AGInventors: Andreas Christel, Claudemiro Ferreira
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Patent number: 7786323Abstract: (Meth)acrolein or (meth)acrylic acid is collected by bringing a reaction gas (1) containing (meth)acrolein or (meth)acrylic acid obtained through a vapor-phase catalytic oxidation reaction into contact with an aqueous solution as a collecting solvent in a collecting tower main body (2). The reaction gas (1) is supplied to the collecting tower main body (2) from two nozzles (2c) facing each other, and is caused to collide in the collecting tower main body (2). According to the present invention, (meth)acrolein or (meth)acrylic acid can be efficiently collected from a gas containing (meth)acrolein or (meth)acrylic acid while preventing polymerization.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2006Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Shuhei Yada, Yasushi Ogawa, Kenji Takasaki, Yoshiro Suzuki, Kimikatsu Jinno
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Publication number: 20100192773Abstract: Embodiments of an abatement apparatus are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an abatement apparatus may include a scrubber configured to receive an effluent stream from a process chamber and further configured to remove first particles from the effluent stream; a scrubber conduit coupled to the scrubber to receive the effluent stream therefrom and configured to remove second particles from the effluent stream, the scrubber conduit having one or more inlets configured to provide a fluid to sufficiently wet an interior surface of the scrubber conduit to trap the second particles thereon and to wash the second particles therealong; and a central scrubber coupled to the scrubber via the scrubber conduit. In some embodiments, the scrubber conduit is downward sloping from the scrubber to the central scrubber. In some embodiments, a plurality of scrubbers may be coupled to the central scrubber via a plurality of scrubber conduits.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2010Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.Inventors: Daniel O. Clark, Colin John Dickinson, Jay J. Jung, Daniel Stephan Brown, Mehran Moalem, Frank F. Hooshdaran, Morteza Farnia, Barry Page, Gary Sypherd, Jonathan Dahm, Phil Chandler
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Patent number: 7727311Abstract: Installation for gas treatment by a liquid phase comprising a) a column (C) that comprises means (1) for introducing gas at one end of said column, means (9) for drawing off gas from the other end of column (C) and, from upstream to downstream in the direction of circulation of the liquid phase: a first internal (2) that comprises means for distribution of a liquid phase, a first bed (6) that comprises a packing or catalytic particles, a second internal (3) that comprises means for separating liquid/gas mixture (19, 20) that is obtained from first bed (6), first means (32, 4) for collecting and evacuating the separated liquid phase, means (100) for passing through internal (3) of the treated gas, and distribution means (31, 101) of a liquid phase with said gas, a second bed (8), second means (10) for collecting and evacuating the liquid phase at the lower outlet of column (C), b) Means for recycling the collected liquid phase.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2005Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: Institut Francais du PetroleInventors: Ludovic Raynal, Eric Lemaire, Jean-Louis Ambrosino
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Publication number: 20100074828Abstract: The invention provides methods and apparatuses for removing carbon dioxide from a gas stream. In particular, the invention provides methods and apparatuses for absorbing carbon dioxide from a coal-fired boiler flue gas stream using an absorbing solution and for regeneration of an alkaline component used in the absorbing solution. In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for removing carbon dioxide from a gas stream by contacting a gas stream containing carbon dioxide with an alkaline liquid stream; absorbing at least a portion of the carbon dioxide into the alkaline liquid stream to produce absorbed carbon dioxide; and catalyzing a reaction of the absorbed carbon dioxide to a form of carbonate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2008Publication date: March 25, 2010Applicant: FLUEGEN, INC.Inventor: Uday Singh
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Patent number: 7628847Abstract: Exhaust gases enter the tank of a columnar vessel (12) and are subsequently forced through a diffuser (24) that is at least partially immersed in a column of solution.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2004Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: Artec 1, Inc.Inventors: G. Michael Pope, Jerry Green
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Patent number: 7604685Abstract: A process for the extraction of an unwanted material from a gas comprising the steps of introducing an extraction liquid into a fluid having an unwanted liquid therein to form a physical aerosol comprising a plurality of extraction liquid droplets and the fluid, allowing the plurality of extraction liquid droplets to interact with the unwanted liquid in the gas to cause the extraction liquid droplets to be “wetted out” and captured on a porous medium, where the liquid is further contacted by the gas and simultaneously formed into a plurality of coalesceable droplets, coalescing the coalesceable droplets into larger droplets containing the unwanted liquid, and separating the larger droplets containing the unwanted liquid from the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2004Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: Porous Media CorpInventors: Matt Thundyil, Michael Spearman, Martin Miller, Doug Mittlesteadt, Heath Burns, Carl Hahn
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Patent number: 7572323Abstract: The invention relates to a fluid separating device with a lower section with a fluid feeding device and a liquid discharging device, an upper section with a fluid feeding device and a gas discharging device, a contact device which is constructed in such a manner that gas, which rises from the lower section into the upper section, comes into contact with liquid which sinks from the upper section into the lower section. Thereby, the rising gases can be depleted of components which are soluble in said liquid. Furthermore, a measuring device for determining the quantity of liquid and/or the alterations thereof is provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2003Date of Patent: August 11, 2009Assignee: SFC Smart Fuel Cell AGInventors: Jens Müller, Volker Harbusch, Markus Huber, Christian Böhm, Kurt Rothkopf, Manfred Stefener
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Patent number: 7559968Abstract: Microbicidal air filter for use with an air passageway, which includes an immobilization network including fibers having substantially embodied therein an amount of at least one antimicrobial agent sufficient to substantially immobilize, retain and kill microbes suspended in a volume of air moving through the air passageway. The immobilization network is substantially permeable to air. A microbicidal facemask and a microbicidal air filter used in an air circulation system using the immobilization network are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2003Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: Noveko Inc.Inventor: Normand Bolduc
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Publication number: 20080276801Abstract: Disclosed is a device for purifying a process gas in a reflow soldering system. Said device comprises a receptacle that contains at least one packing bed. The process gas is fed to the receptacle via a gas inlet while being discharged from the receptacle after penetrating the packing bed. The inventive device further comprises an apparatus for delivering a liquid fluid to the receptacle. Secondary materials of the soldering process in the reflow soldering system can be absorbed by the liquid fluid and thus be eliminated from the process gas. Secondary materials and/or droplets and vapors of the fluid can additionally be absorbed and adsorbed on the surface of the packing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2006Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicant: Rehm Anlagenbau GmbHInventors: Hans Bell, Jurgen Felgner, Ralf Heidenreich
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Publication number: 20080271603Abstract: An air purification system and method of purifying air according to various embodiments of the invention includes an ambient air inlet and a purified air outlet for the passage there through of air via a transport line. At least one cleaning chamber configured to contain therein an aqueous solution containing a reactant medium is in fluidic communication with the transport line. The ambient air passes through the at least one cleaning chamber and bubbles through the aqueous solution reacting with the reactant medium contained therein to remove gaseous pollutants and/or particulates. To recharge the system, a user simply changes out the cleaning chamber when the reactant medium is no longer capable of reacting to remove the gaseous pollutants and/or particulates from air passing there through.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2007Publication date: November 6, 2008Inventors: Carl Triplett, Michael Mathiesen, Jie Chen, Geoffrey Faires
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Publication number: 20080257159Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for controlling humidity and temperature in gases or air streams used in semiconductor processing systems. These systems and methods can be used in combination with systems and methods for contaminant detection and removal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2008Publication date: October 23, 2008Applicant: Entegris, Inc.Inventors: William M. Goodwin, Oleg P. Kishkovich, Anatoly Grayfer
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Patent number: 7306653Abstract: The present invention comprises an apparatus and method for efficiently venting impurities from a heat recovery steam generator system by concentrating the impurities in a condensing deaerating vent line 40 and then venting a proportionately small amount of steam with a proportionately high concentration of impurities. The condensing deaerating vent line 40 is attached to a low pressure drum 10, and feed water 54 may be added to the upper portion of the condensing deaerating vent line 40 to improve condensation and conserve thermal energy.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2004Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Assignee: Siemens Power Generation, Inc.Inventors: James C. Bellows, Fred W. Shoemaker
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Patent number: 7288140Abstract: In a wet-process gas treatment method of treating an acid gas by using at least two treating columns connected in series, a ratio of the concentration of an acid gas at an outlet to a concentration of the acid gas at an inlet of a first treating column is set higher than a ratio of the concentration of the acid gas at an outlet to the concentration of acid gas at an inlet of at least one of the other treating columns, thereby preventing deposits from forming in the interior of connecting pipes between the columns and in the interiors of the treating columns, to prevent the connecting pipes from being blocked.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2004Date of Patent: October 30, 2007Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Echizen, Hiroshi Izawa
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Patent number: 7275737Abstract: Device for simultaneously cooling and removing liquid from compressed gas of a compressor element (1) or of several compressor elements (1) which are connected either or not in parallel or in series, which device includes a pressure vessel (2) which is provided with a liquid drain (8) at the bottom, an inlet (6) for compressed gas at a distance above the latter and an outlet (18) for compressed gas at the top, latter and an outlet (18) for compressed gas at the top, characterized in that a distribution device (4) is provided in the pressure vessel (2), between the inlet (6) and the outlet (18) for the compressed gas, for spreading a cool fluid in direct contact with the compressed gas, and in that a heat exchanger (5) is provided in the pressure vessel (2) for heating the compressed gas which has been cooled by the cool fluid.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2003Date of Patent: October 2, 2007Assignee: Atlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze VennootschapInventor: Peter Jozef Heirman
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Publication number: 20070204751Abstract: The invention relates to a static mixer for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine. The mixer has a wall structure that is arranged across the directional of flow in a pipe and has several layers of a corrugated sheeting material laying across one another in the direction of flow. The cells through which the flow can pass in the direction of flow are provided between the sheeting material of neighboring layers. The sheeting material has baffles for all or several of the cells. The baffles are arranged on the sheeting material so that they are arranged on their outgoing flow side in the case of said cells and extend in the direction of flow and across it.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Georg Wirth, Felix Neumann
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Patent number: 7261284Abstract: A process for effecting mass transfer between a liquid phase and a gaseous phase in a filled-type column comprising an external shell which accommodates at least one filler-containing basket wherethrough the phases are caused to flow in countercurrent relationship, advantageously comprises the step of feeding the gaseous phase to the at least one basket through a gas-permeable surface thereof which is larger than the basket cross-section, preferably in a prevailing radial flow direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2006Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: Ammonia Casale S.A.Inventor: Filippi Ermanno
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Patent number: 7250067Abstract: The present invention relates to a product for, and a method of, treating gases, fumes and vapors with fragments of crustacean shell so as to extract one or more components/pollutants from the gases.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2002Date of Patent: July 31, 2007Assignee: Carafiltration LimitedInventor: Ashley John Wilson
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Patent number: 7175913Abstract: A material for chromatographic separations, processes for its preparation, and separation devices containing the chromatographic material. In particular, porous inorganic/organic hybrid materials are provided with a decreased concentration of surface organic groups. These particles may be surface modified and have enhanced stability at low pH.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2003Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Assignee: Waters Investments LimitedInventor: John E. O'Gara
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Patent number: 7160362Abstract: A method of cleaning air, including a humidifying operation for humidifying the air containing chemical contaminants by a humidifier and taking a part of the gaseous contaminants in the air into excessive moisture to remove the contaminants from the air, and a dehumidifying operation for dehumidifying the humidified air by a condenser and taking the gaseous chemical contaminants remaining, without being removed, in the humidifying operation into condensed water for removal. By using an oblique honeycomb having both front and rear faces and both upper and lower faces disposed in open state, air is led from the front opening part of the oblique honeycomb and water is fed from the upper opening part thereof to one or both of the humidifier and condenser.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2002Date of Patent: January 9, 2007Assignees: Nichias Co., Ltd., Tokyo Electron Limited, Taisei CorporationInventors: Isao Terada, Minoru Tanaka, Yuji Matumura, Sadao Kobayashi, Naoki Mori, Hiromu Itoh, Yoshihide Wakayama, Osamu Suenaga
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Patent number: 7147689Abstract: An apparatus and a method for removing volatile organic compounds from air that is vented from tanks and vessels containing hydrocarbon material. This invention also relates to a self-propelled vehicle on which the apparatus is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2004Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Inventor: Charles K. Miller
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Patent number: 7147692Abstract: The method involves contacting the air with an aqueous or non-aqueous liquid in a stand-alone system. The air may be brought into contact with the liquid using a number of different types of apparatus, including a packed column scrubber. The liquid may be non-evaporative.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2004Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Daniele Fornai, Stylianos Kouvroukoglou, Patrizio Ricci, Renzo Rizzo, Sergio Rossi, Andrea Filippo Argentieri, Stefano Scialla
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Patent number: 7044993Abstract: Microbicidal air filter for use with an air passageway, which includes an immobilization network including a plurality of fibers having an amount of at least one antimicrobial agent incorporated and molecularly bonded into a structure thereof sufficient to substantially immobilize, retain and at least inhibit the growth of, or typically kill, microbes suspended in a volume of air moving through the air passageway. The immobilization network is substantially permeable to air. A microbicidal facemask and a microbicidal air filter used in an air circulation system using the immobilization network are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2005Date of Patent: May 16, 2006Assignee: Bolduc Leroux Inc.Inventor: Normand Bolduc
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Patent number: 7025808Abstract: A process is proposed for reducing the aerosol-related discharge from a separation column (1) in which one or more components are separated off from a gaseous or liquid starting mixture (G) at actively separating internals (2), aerosols being present or formed in a gas phase, which comprises the actively separating internals (2) being segmented at one or more separation points, which are determined in such a manner that the aerosols have at least 50% of their maximum particle size at the separation point or separation points, and an internal (3) being provided at each separation point, which internal is operated under at least partially flooded conditions, a continuous liquid phase being formed at least in partial regions of the internal (3), to which region the aerosols are bound.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2004Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Günther Huber, Karl Hölemann, Jan-Martin Löning, Bernd Sachweh
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Patent number: 7014177Abstract: A process for effecting mass transfer between a liquid phase and a gaseous phase in a filled-type column having an external shell which accommodates at least one filler-containing basket wherethrough the phases are caused to flow in countercurrent relationship. The process includes the step of feeding the gaseous phase to the at least one basket through a gas-permeable surface thereof which is larger than the basket cross-section, preferably in a prevailing radial flow direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2002Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Assignee: Ammonia Casale S.A.Inventor: Ermanno Filippi
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Publication number: 20040250684Abstract: Apparatus for removing carbon dioxide from a stream of air or other gas, which includes a vertical gas absorption reactor containing loosely packed mixing units submerged in a carbon dioxide absorbent liquid; gas to be treated is admitted at or near this base of the rector, is broken into small bubbles by the mixing units, and passes through the absorbent liquid to remove a high percentage of carbon dioxide; treated gas leaves from the top of the reactor, a regenerator associated with the reactor continually or intermittently regenerates the absorbent liquid and is arranged to receive absorbent liquid to be treated through an outlet from the reactor which is located higher up the wall of the reactor than the inlet for returning treated liquid to the reactor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Susan Pran Krumdieck, Kenneth Neil Marsh, Matthew Lloyd Brill, Michael Asher Brown, James Richard Cleland, Matthew Donald Green, Jamie Stuart Wallace
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Publication number: 20040237781Abstract: A method of cleaning air, comprising a humidifying step for humidifying the air containing chemical contaminants by a humidifying means and taking a part of the gaseous contaminants in the air into excessive moisture to remove the contaminants from the air and a dehumidifying step for dehumidifying the humidified air by a condensing means and taking the gaseous chemical contaminants remaining, without being removed, in the humidifying step into condensed water for removal, wherein, by using a oblique honeycomb having both front and rear faces and both upper and lower faces disposedin open state, air is led from the front opening part of the oblique honeycomb and water is fed from the upper opening part thereof to one or both of the humidifying and condensing means.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2004Publication date: December 2, 2004Applicants: Nichias Co., Ltd, TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED, TAISEI CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Terada, Minoru Tanaka, Yuji Matumura, Sadao Kobayashi, Naoki Mori, Hiromu Itoh, Yoshihide Wakayama, Osamu Suenaga
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Publication number: 20040231512Abstract: A method, and systems for implementing such method, for purifying and conditioning air of weaponized contaminants. The method includes wetting a filter packing media with a salt-based liquid desiccant, such as water with a high concentration of lithium chloride. Air is passed through the wetted filter packing media and the contaminants in are captured with the liquid desiccant while the liquid desiccant dehumidifies the air. The captured contaminants are then deactivated in the liquid desiccant, which may include heating the liquid desiccant. The liquid desiccant is regenerated by applying heat to the liquid desiccant and then removing moisture. The method includes repeating the wetting with the regenerated liquid desiccant which provides a regenerable filtering process that captures and deactivates contaminants on an ongoing basis while also conditioning the air. The method may include filtration effectiveness enhancement by electrostatic or inertial means.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2003Publication date: November 25, 2004Inventors: Steven J. Slayzak, Ren S. Anderson, Ronald D. Judkoff, Daniel M. Blake, Todd B. Vinzant, Joseph P. Ryan
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Patent number: 6821317Abstract: In a wet-process gas treatment method of treating an acid gas by using at least two treating columns connected in series, a ratio of the concentration of an acid gas at an outlet to a concentration of the acid gas at an inlet of a first treating column is set higher than a ratio of the concentration of the acid gas at an outlet to the concentration of acid gas at an inlet of at least one of the other treating columns, thereby preventing deposits from forming in the interior of connecting pipes between the columns and in the interiors of the treating columns, to prevent the connecting pipes from being blocked.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2002Date of Patent: November 23, 2004Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Echizen, Hiroshi Izawa
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Patent number: 6811147Abstract: A packing assembly for a column comprises a cage element which carried a packing element. The packing element comprises a first plurality of parallel plates and a second plurality of parallel plates. The first plurality of parallel plates have peripheries which enable them to be accommodated within a sphere. The second plurality of parallel plates interconnect the first plurality of parallel plates and are positioned normally to the first plurality of parallel plates. The second plurality of parallel plates have peripheries which enable them to also be accommodated within the sphere. The packing element is housed in a spherical cage element which possesses a crush strength sufficient to withstand crushing forces to be encountered when the packing assembly is deployed in a column. The packing element self-orients in the column during use to reduce pressure drop and improve performance during the course of operations.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2002Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignee: Apollo Separation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Philip Y. Lau, Marv. A. Honnell
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Publication number: 20040182241Abstract: A process is proposed for reducing the aerosol-related discharge from a separation column (1) in which one or more components are separated off from a gaseous or liquid starting mixture (G) at actively separating internals (2), aerosols being present or formed in a gas phase, which comprises the actively separating internals (2) being segmented at one or more separation points, which are determined in such a manner that the aerosols have at least 50% of their maximum particle size at the separation point or separation points, and an internal (3) being provided at each separation point, which internal is operated under at least partially flooded conditions, a continuous liquid phase being formed at least in partial regions of the internal (3), to which region the aerosols are bound.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2004Publication date: September 23, 2004Inventors: Gunther Huber, Karl Holemann, Jan-Martin Loning, Bernd Sachweh
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Patent number: 6773582Abstract: A drinking water treatment system includes a pump for pumping water from an aquifer, an aerator connected downstream from the pump for generating an outlet water flow and a hydrogen sulfide-containing gas flow, and a hydrogen sulfide scrubber for scrubbing the hydrogen sulfide-containing gas flow from the aerator. The hydrogen sulfide scrubber includes at least one scrubber tank and scrubber media contained therein. A scrubbing solution circulator includes a dispenser for dispensing scrubbing solution into contact with the scrubber media, a sump for collecting the scrubbing solution after contact with the scrubber media, and a circulating pump for circulating the scrubbing solution from the sump back to the dispenser after contact with the scrubber media. A triazine compound supply is provided for supplying a triazine compound to the scrubbing solution.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2002Date of Patent: August 10, 2004Assignee: Precision Control Technology, Inc.Inventor: Patrick M. Anthony
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Patent number: 6645273Abstract: A method for removing impurity substances in air flowing in a flow passage includes filtering the air in a first filter for removing solid substances; cooling the air in a first cooler to not higher than its dew-point temperature; capturing gaseous substances in the air in a wet-type impurity removing apparatus; cooling the air in a second cooler; and filtering in a second filter. The wet-type impurity removing apparatus includes a first liquid atomizer having two pluralities of nozzle ports for spraying, arranged mutually spaced apart and facing each other in the direction of the air flow passage; first and second condensing and capturing assemblies located across the first atomizer and spaced apart from each other, with the first assembly being upstream and the second assembly being downstream from the first atomizer; a second atomizer for capturing any remaining gaseous substances in the air; and a third condensing and capturing assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2002Date of Patent: November 11, 2003Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co, LTDInventors: Hidetoshi Wakamatsu, Mikio Matsuki, Norio Tanaka, Hiroshi Ogata
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Publication number: 20030145730Abstract: Particularly in the case of a fuel cell, the waste gas contains, in essence, carbon dioxide and methanol. According to the invention, the carbon dioxide/methanol gas mixture is directed through a porous material and is scrubbed out in the counter-current flow using water. The device utilizes a gas scrubber to separate out the fuel.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2003Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: Walter Preidel
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Publication number: 20030116018Abstract: In a wet-process gas treatment method of treating an acid gas by means of at least two treating columns connected in series, ratio of concentration of acid gas at an outlet to concentration of acid gas at an inlet, of a first treating column is set higher than ratio of concentration of acid gas at an outlet to concentration of acid gas at an inlet, of at least one of other treating columns, thereby preventing deposits from forming in the interior of connecting pipes between the columns and in the interiors of the treating columns, to prevent the connecting pipes from their blockage.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2002Publication date: June 26, 2003Inventors: Hiroshi Echizen, Hiroshi Izawa
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Publication number: 20030089242Abstract: Apparatus for removing impurity substances in the air, comprising a first filter (17) for removing solid substances in the air flowing in a flow passage (13) defined by a housing (11); first cooling means (18) for cooling the air to not higher than its dew-point temperature; a wet-type impurity removing mechanism (19) for capturing gaseous substances in the air; second cooling means (20); and a second filter (22).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2002Publication date: May 15, 2003Inventors: Hidetoshi Wakamatsu, Mikio Matsuki, Norio Tanaka, Hiroshi Ogata
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Publication number: 20030070552Abstract: A waste gas treating device includes two cleansing towers, a plurality of ceramic (or porcelain) balls fully filled in the two towers, and a specific liquid filled in the two towers for waste gas pumped in firstly in the first tower to flow upward through gaps among the ceramic balls and contact with the liquid. Then toxic substances in waste gas react with the liquid to produce byproducts, which sink down out of the first tower and then into a sediment pool. Partial waste gas flowing up to a top end of the first tower is pumped into the second tower for cleansing once again in the same process in the first one to let waste gas cleansed completely and flow out of an upper end of the second tower into atmosphere.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2001Publication date: April 17, 2003Inventors: Chih-ming Lee, Chih-hua Lee, Chun-hung Lee, Nan-ping Lee
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Patent number: 6547222Abstract: A packing element is provided for use in a mass transfer tower or a heat sink. The packing element is in the form of a saddle shaped member having a configuration generally corresponding to a portion of a toroid generated by rotating a plane closed curve about an axis that is coplanar with and spaced from the curve. The curve has inner and outer surface generating segments. The inner segment is closer to the axis than the outer segment. The outer segment is essentially w-shaped. The member has respective inner and outer surface portions which correspond in transverse cross-sectional shape to the shape of said segments. In one form of the invention, the inner segment is essentially w-shaped and complementary to said outer segment, whereby the element itself is essentially w-shaped in transverse cross-sectional configuration.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2001Date of Patent: April 15, 2003Assignee: Koch Knight, LLCInventors: David M. Blischak, Paul I. Rufener, Phillip J. Herman
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Patent number: 6528167Abstract: A material for chromatographic separations, processes for its preparation, and separation devices containing the chromatographic material. In particular, porous inorganic/organic hybrid materials are provided with a decreased concentration of surface organic groups. These particles may be surface modified and have enhanced stability at low pH.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2001Date of Patent: March 4, 2003Assignee: Waters Investments LimitedInventor: John E. O'Gara
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Patent number: 6514306Abstract: A fibrous element is described. The fibrous element includes a container member and an anti-microbial agent, wherein the anti-microbial agent is disposed within the container member. The container member can include structures such as an elongated fiber having multiple lobes with a longitudinally extending internal cavity including an opening from the internal cavity to the outer fiber formed between adjacent lobes, an elongated fiber having an internal longitudinally extending cavity having a longitudinally extending opening, and a particulate. The anti-microbial agent is capable of diffusing out of the container member and throughout the fibrous element in response to elevated relative humidity levels in order to contact and kill a microbial population.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2000Date of Patent: February 4, 2003Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Ronald P. Rohrbach, Peter D. Unger, Gordon William Jones
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Patent number: 6497757Abstract: An apparatus for removing impurity substances in the air includes a first filter for removing solid substances in the air flowing in a flow passage defined by a housing; a first cooler for cooling the air to not higher than its dew-point temperature; a wet-type impurity removing mechanism for capturing gaseous substances in the air; a second cooler; and a second filter. The wet-type impurity removing mechanism includes a first liquid atomizer having a plurality of nozzle ports for spraying, arranged mutually spaced apart and facing each other in the direction of the air flow passage; first and second condensing and capturing assemblies located across the first atomizer and spaced apart from each other, with the first condensing and capturing assembly being upstream and the second condensing and capturing assembly being downstream from the first atomizer; a second atomizer for capturing any remaining gaseous substances in the air; and a third condensing and capturing assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2000Date of Patent: December 24, 2002Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co, Ltd.Inventors: Hidetoshi Wakamatsu, Mikio Matsuki, Norio Tanaka, Hiroshi Ogata