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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
James Jeffrey Harris, Cameron Park, CA (US);
James William Harris, Golden, CO (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
95166 ; 95169 ; 95170 ; 95186 ; 95191 ; 95207 ;
Abstract
A low temperature process for the dehydration of aqueous glycol solutions using an induced airflow (3) and low temperature thermal sources (4, 21) to reduce the water concentration in aqueous glycol solutions (22). The invention utilizes the ability for air to evaporate water at low vapor pressures and corresponding low vapor temperatures in a direct contacting device (5). The relative vapor pressures of glycol to water at low temperatures assures the preferential vaporization rate of water over that of glycol thereby providing dehydration and effective regeneration of aqueous glycol solutions.