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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 1992
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1991
Patricia T Thomas, North Fort Myers, FL (US);
Munters Corporation, Fort Myers, FL (US);
Abstract
An improved contact body for use in a liquid gas contact apparatus formed of first and second sets of corrugated sheet material arranged with the sheets of the first set disposed alternately with the sheets of the second set. The corrugations of the sheets define passageways which penetrate the contact body from edge to edge with both vertical and horizontal components of direction. The passageways are simultaneously passed by a flow of gas in one direction and liquid in the other direction in either counterflow or cross-flow in the contact apparatus. The corrugations of the first set of sheets cross the corrugations of the second set of sheets at an acute angle in the range of 15.degree. to 80.degree.. Corrugations of the first set of sheets have a greater inclination to the horizontal plane of the contact apparatus than the corrugations of the second set of sheets and the corrugations of the first set of sheets have a smaller amplitude dimension than the corrugations of the second set of sheets. Corrugations in the first set of sheets are inclined upwardly in the direction of gas flow and the corrugations in the second set of sheets are inclined downwardly in the direction of gas flow whereby undesirable lateral displacement of the liquid stream caused by the gas flow is counteracted and the liquid is distributed uniformly and evenly over the sheets. An improved efficiency is also achieved with little or no increase in pressure drop as compared to contact bodies having both corrugated sheets of the larger amplitude.