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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2001

Filed:

Nov. 24, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

F. Paul King, Royal Oak, MI (US);

Mark Inch, Romulus, MI (US);

Robert Howard, Ypsilanti, MI (US);

Niels Bogh, Puyallup, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 1/702 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 1/702 ;
Abstract

A quenchant management system having a quenchant separation module for separating a heavy phase polymer such as polyalkylene glycol (PAG) from water. The quenchant separation module includes a heating section for elevating the temperature of the fluid to be separated to provide initial thermal separation. The quenchant separation module also includes a coalescer for further separating the heavy phase from the light phase of the input fluid. In order to obtain a predetermined polymer concentration and the heavy phase, the output flow rate of the coalescer is varied in accordance with the concentration and flow rate of the input fluid.


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