VORTEX APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING PHYSICO-CHEMICAL PROCESSES AT DESCENDING FLOW OF PHASES Russian patent published in 2006 - IPC B01D53/18 B01D47/06 B01D3/30 

FIELD: absorption, desorption, dust and gas separation, drying, mixing and cooling gases.

SUBSTANCE: proposed apparatus has housing, cover, bottom, phase supply and discharge branch pipes, vortex contact device consisting of upper base, tangential plates, plate and separator, liquid distributors equipped with injectors and mounted on upper base of contact device. Horizontal disk-type partitions are mounted in height of tangential plates of vortex contact device. Horizontal disk-type partitions and upper base of vortex contact device are provided with circular slots in area of attachment of tangential plates. Circular shoulders are made on external and internal shears of disk-type partitions and on external shear of upper base of vortex contact device. Separator is made in form of truncated taper ferrule; diameter of lower shear of this ferrule is equal to 0.75-0.9 of inner diameter of vortex contact device. Number of vortex contact devices ranges from 1 to 3. Distance between upper base of vortex contact device and lower shear of separator is equal to 0.3-1.0 of inner diameter of vortex contact device.

EFFECT: enhanced efficiency of heat and mass exchange of vortex apparatus at high loads in gas and liquid phases.

3 cl, 5 dwg