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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2008
Theodore Sideropoulos, Oakton, VA (US);
Arun K. Sharma, Missouri City, TX (US);
Theodore Sideropoulos, Oakton, VA (US);
Arun K. Sharma, Missouri City, TX (US);
ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Company, Annandale, NJ (US);
Abstract
A distillation tower for use in a petrochemical or petroleum operation effects liquid and vapor separation by using centrifugal force applied to the feed introduced into a ring from a tangential inlet. The feed is separated into a liquid component that flows into the bottoms section of the tower and a vapor component that flows upwardly through the core of the ring to a wash zone in the tower. De-entrainment devices are provided in the core so that the vapor swirling upwardly impacts the devices and any remaining entrained liquid is separated from the vapor. As a result, overflash with decreased resid can be collected from the wash zone and used as feed suitable for a fluid catalytic cracking operation, for example.