Ddi Corp.

Danielson Associates, Inc.

Giovanni Carrea

Brian Donald Warrick

Philip Danielson

Lewis J Wickman

A metal hydride getter purifier operated at less than 350&deg; C. to remove impurities such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen, oxygen and water to levels of the order of one ppb or less from hydrogen without creating greater than 10 ppb methane. A cryogenic stage after the getter stage may be used to ensure removal of methane from hydrogen.

Hydrogen purification using metal hydride getter material

A metal hydride getter purifier operated at less than 350.degree. C. to remove impurities such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen, oxygen and water to levels of the order of one ppb or less from hydrogen without creating greater than 10 ppb methane. A cryogenic stage after the getter stage may be used to ensure removal of methane from hydrogen.

A method and an apparatus for removing impurities from a noble gas or nitrogen utilizing a single purifier vessel having three zones. In the first zone, the gas is preheated to a temperature greater than 200.degree. C.; in the second zone, the preheated gas is contacted with a getter material at greater than 335.degree. C. for removal of impurities such as methane and other hydrocarbons, water, carbon monoxide, nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide; in the third zone, the gas is contacted with a second getter material at a temperature greater than 150.degree. C. for removal of hydrogen. Hot gas exiting the purifier vessel is passed through a recuperative heat exchanger where the hot exiting gas preheats in-coming gas before it enters the first zone of the purifier vessel.

Noble gas purifier with single purifier vessel and recuperative heat

A two-stage process method for removal of impurities such carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, oxygen, water, hydrogen, and methane from inert gases at ambient temperature (0.degree.-60.degree. C.). In the first stage the inert gas is contacted with a nickel catalyst, and in the second stage the inert gas is passed over a getter alloy. Purified gas exiting the second stage of the purifier contains less than one part per billion (ppb) levels of the impurities. The nickel catalyst and getter alloy are initially activated at elevated temperature. The catalyst and getter may be reactivated by heating and purging, and hydrogen previously removed from impure gas can be used in the reactivation process.

Low temperature inert gas purifier

A method and apparatus are disclosed showing a system for continuous purification of bulk source specialty gases to less than 10 part per billion levels. Corrosive and non-corrosive specialty gases are purified using this system. Depending on whether corrosive or non-corrosive gases are being purified and the contaminants of concern, the purification beds contain an absorber and/or getter. A dual bed system allows one bed to purify at ambient temperatures while a second bed undergoes regeneration, providing continuous purification for a bulk source specialty gas.

Specialty gas purification system

A bulk getter-pump, consisting primarily of large beds of heated getter-material for use in pumping down in a high-vacuum environment. The pump is designed for applications now are served by turbo, cryo, diffusion, and ion pumps. The pump consists of a meshed cage filled with bulk getter-material pellets, which cage is housed in a housing coupled to a conduit of a vacuum chamber, so that the bulk getter-material is exposed to the interior of the vacuum chamber. In use, a roughing pump is first used to bring the chamber down to a pressure of about 10.sup.3 torr, and then the bulk getter-pump of the invention is operatively coupled to the chamber for sorbing gases, in order to reach a high vacuum.

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Colorado Springs, CO, United States of America

Giovanni Carrea