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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1999
Mary Anne Alvin, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Eugene E. Smeltzer, Export, PA (US);
Gerald J. Bruck, Murrysville, PA (US);
Thomas E. Lippert, Murrysville, PA (US);
Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation, Orlando, FL (US);
Abstract
A filter assembly is made for filtering hot gas within a cleanup system pressure vessel (,), where the filter assembly (,) contains a filter housing (,) having an interior chamber (,), and a filter element (,) attached to the bottom of a fail-safe/regenerator filter device (,) which contains a plurality of elongated passageway members either of a porous metal media tube type (,) or of a porous metal media honeycomb cartridge member type (,), where the passageway members are effective to facilitate enhanced capture of particulates in the event of filter element (,) failure.