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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2025
Filed:
May. 20, 2022
Exxonmobil Technology and Engineering Company, Annandale, NJ (US);
Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta, GA (US);
Simon C. Weston, Annandale, NJ (US);
Ryan P. Lively, Atlanta, GA (US);
Matthew J. Realff, Atlanta, GA (US);
William J. Koros, Atlanta, GA (US);
Wenying Quan, Marietta, GA (US);
Fengyi Zhang, Bartlesville, OK (US);
Dong Hwi Jeong, Ulsan, KR;
Seongbin Ga, Busan, KR;
Stephen J. A. DeWitt, Boston, MA (US);
Yang Liu, Belmont, MA (US);
Hannah E. Holmes, Atlanta, GA (US);
ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company, Annandale, NJ (US);
Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Contactor structures are provided that can allow for improved heat management while reducing or minimizing the potential for contamination of process gas streams with heat transfer fluids. The contactor structures can include one or more sets of flow channels for process gas flows, such as gas flows introduced to allow adsorption of components from a gas stream or gas flows introduced to facilitate desorption of previously adsorbed components into a purge gas stream. The process gas flow channels can correspond to flow channels defined by a structural material of unitary structure. The unitary structure can correspond to the entire contactor, or the unitary structure can correspond to a monolith that forms a portion of the contactor. The contactor structures can also include one or more sets of flow channels for heat transfer fluids. The heat transfer flow channels can also be defined by the structural material of a unitary structure.