Koch Engineering Company, Inc.

Ilya S Michelson

Chang-Li Hsieh

Chris F Meyer

A liquid distributor apparatus and method for the distribution of a high viscosity liquid into a process vessel generally free of entrapped gas bubbles. The distributor apparatus includes a distributor for the high viscosity liquid with openings on the top of the distributor to vent gas entrapped in the high viscosity liquid. The distributor apparatus includes a feed pipe to deliver smoothly and without gas entrapment a high viscosity liquid from the distributor directly onto a cup-like or conical surface of a distributor tube to form a downwardly flowing film on the exterior surface of the distributor tube and to deliver the high viscosity liquid to the top section of the process vessel without gas entrapment. The method comprises venting gas from a high viscosity liquid and slowing the downward velocity of the vented, high viscosity liquid into the process vessel to avoid further gas entrapment.

Liquid distributor apparatus and method for high viscosity liquids

An improved mist eliminator for use in a column and a method for removing liquid from a gas stream, which mist eliminator comprises a plurality of spaced apart chevron-type baffle members, the baffle members defining a plurality of gas flow paths therebetween and transversely disposed to the axis of the column, the upstream leading edge of the chevron-type baffle members characterized by a plurality of downwardly extending drainage teeth or points thereon to promote the rapid drainage of coalescent liquid from the chevron-type baffle members thereby increasing the critical or maximum allowable velocity of the gas stream and the gas capacity of the chevron-type baffle members and decreasing the pressure drop across the mist eliminator.

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Brookline, MA, United States of America

Ilya S Michelson