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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2000
Thomas Berger, Essen, DE;
Guido Büschkens, Krefeld, DE;
Klaus Lingler, Mönchengladbach, DE;
Peter Nobis, Neuss, DE;
Messer Griesheim GmbH, , DE;
Abstract
In a process for cooling and atomizing liquid or pasty substances or mixtures of substances, a liquid or pasty substance/mixture of substances is combined with liquid or supercritical carbon dioxide and then the mixture of liquid or pasty substance/mixture of substances and liquid or supercritical carbon dioxide is expanded. An apparatus for cooling liquid or pasty substances or mixtures of substances has a storage vessel for the liquid or pasty substance/mixture of substances, to which is allocated a line in which a device for transporting the liquid or pasty substance/mixture of substances is disposed. The apparatus has a source of liquid or supercritical carbon dioxide, to which source is allocated a line, and it has a connection point via which the line allocated to the storage vessel for the liquid or pasty substance/mixture of substances is connected to the line allocated to the source of liquid or supercritical carbon dioxide, and which has an expansion apparatus.