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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
David R Whitlock, Belmont, MA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A process for the separation of solutes dissolved in a gaseous solvent. The process may be used to extract and recover solutes from solvents in either the supercritical or subcritical region. The process can be used to purify solvents containing solutes by removing solutes whose chemical potential decreases as the density of the solvent increases. The process utilizes a sorbent to remove the solute followed by an in situ regeneration of the sorbent and recovery of the solute. Typically, a gaseous solvent containing at least one solute is passed through a bed of sorbent to sorb at least one of the solutes to the bed of sorbent, producing a purified gaseous solvent. At least a portion of the gaseous solvent is then acted upon to increase its solvent capacity for the at least one sorbed solute. The increased solvent capacity gaseous solvent is passed through the bed of sorbent in the opposite direction to desorb the at least one sorbed solute and to dissolve the at least one sorbed solute in the increased solvent capacity gaseous solvent. The at least one solute may then be recovered from the increased solvent capacity gaseous solvent.