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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2001
Ravi Jain, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Alberto I. LaCava, Fort Lee, NJ (US);
Apurva Maheshwary, Nutley, NJ (US);
John Robert Ambriano, Monmouth Beach, NJ (US);
Divyanshu R. Acharya, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Frank R. Fitch, Bedminster, NJ (US);
The BOC Group, Inc., New Providence, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method of separating a first gaseous component from a gas mixture comprising a first gaseous component and a second gaseous component comprising passing the gaseous mixture into an adsorption zone containing an adsorbent material capable of preferentially adsorbing at least one of the gaseous components in the gaseous mixture, to separate the first gaseous component from the second gaseous component wherein the adsorbent material is a monolithic wheel having a plurality of channels throughout, the channels being aligned parallel to the direction of flow of the gaseous mixture and having a wall thickness of less than 1 mm and recovering the non-preferentially adsorbed gaseous component from the adsorption zone. Preferably, the adsorption zone comprises multiple layers of monolithic structures in the shape of a wheel stacked one upon the other in a direction parallel to the direction of the flow of the gaseous mixture and formed by spirally winding a sheet of corrugated adsorbable material about a hub.