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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 1988
Filed:
Jun. 11, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Peter J Davidson, Darlington, GB;
Warwick J Lywood, Hutton Rudby, GB;
Assignee:
Imperial Chemical Industries PLC, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D / ; B01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
55 77 ; 55 74 ; 55 75 ; 502400 ;
Abstract
A heat and mass exchange, pressure and/or thermal swing adsorption process using an adsorbent bed which consists of at least one unit having substantially parallel passages through it. Each unit has at least 20 passages per cm.sup.2 of its cross-sectional area, the number and cross-sectional area of the passages being such that each unit has a geometric void of not more than 0.45. The bed may be random packed or a close packed assembly or stack of units.