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Patent No.:

US 9920964 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018

Filed:

Jul. 25, 2015

Hybrid indirect/direct contactor for thermal management of counter-current processes

Applicant:

Sri International, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Marc D Hornbostel, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Gopala N. Krishnan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Angel Sanjurjo, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:

Ballard Spahr LLP

Primary Examiner:

Emmanuel Duke

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25B 15/00 (2006.01); F28C 3/14 (2006.01); B01J 8/12 (2006.01); B01D 53/08 (2006.01); B01D 53/26 (2006.01); B01D 53/34 (2006.01); F28D 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F25B 15/00 (2013.01); B01D 53/08 (2013.01); B01D 53/261 (2013.01); B01D 53/343 (2013.01); B01J 8/12 (2013.01); F28C 3/14 (2013.01); B01D 2257/80 (2013.01); B01D 2259/4009 (2013.01); B01D 2259/65 (2013.01); B01J 2208/0084 (2013.01); B01J 2208/00132 (2013.01); B01J 2219/1921 (2013.01); B01J 2219/1923 (2013.01); B01J 2219/1925 (2013.01); B01J 2219/1928 (2013.01); F28D 13/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention relates to contactors suitable for use, for example, in manufacturing and chemical refinement processes. In an aspect is a hybrid indirect/direct contactor for thermal management of counter-current processes, the contactor comprising a vertical reactor column, an array of interconnected heat transfer tubes within the reactor column, and a plurality of stream path diverters, wherein the tubes and diverters are configured to block all straight-line paths from the top to bottom ends of the reactor column.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Hornbostel, Marc. (2018). Hybrid indirect/direct contactor for thermal management of counter-current processes (U.S. Patent No. 9920964). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9920964

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