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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 08, 1996
Shankar Nataraj, Allentown, PA (US);
Brian Thomas Carvill, Orefield, PA (US);
Jeffrey Raymond Hufton, Fogelsville, PA (US);
Steven Gerard Mayorga, Allentown, PA (US);
Thomas Richard Gaffney, Allentown, PA (US);
Jeffrey Richard Brzozowski, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
A cyclic process for operating an equilibrium controlled reaction in a plurality of reactors containing an admixture of an adsorbent and a reaction catalyst suitable for performing the desired reaction which is operated in a predetermined timed sequence wherein the heating and cooling requirements in a moving reaction mass transfer zone within each reactor are provided by indirect heat exchange with a fluid capable of phase change at temperatures maintained in each reactor during sorpreaction, depressurization, purging and pressurization steps during each process cycle.