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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2008
Nareshkumar B. Handagama, Knoxville, TN (US);
Rasesh R. Kotdawala, Knoxville, TN (US);
Nareshkumar B. Handagama, Knoxville, TN (US);
Rasesh R. Kotdawala, Knoxville, TN (US);
ALSTOM Technology Ltd, Baden, CH;
Abstract
A system () for regenerating a rich absorbent solution (), the system including: an absorber () facilitating interaction between a process stream () and an absorbent solution, wherein the process stream comprises an acidic component, and interaction of the process stream with the absorbent solution produces a reduced acidic component stream () and a rich absorbent solution; at least one heat exchanger accepting at least one of said reduced acidic component stream and the process stream to transfer heat to a heat transfer fluid (); and at least one mechanism () to transfer the heat transfer fluid from said at least one heat exchanger to a regenerator () regenerating the rich absorbent solution, wherein each of the at least one mechanisms is fluidly coupled to each of the at least one heat exchangers.