Abstract:
A CONTAMINANT ADSORPTION FILTER ELEMENT IS PROVIDED THAT INCLUDES A SELF-ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS ON MESOPOROUS SUPPORTS (SAMMS) CONTAINED IN A FILTER ELEMENT HAVING A PLURALITY OF POCKETS SUCH AS A FLUTED FILTER MEDIA.THE PLURALITY OF POCKETS ARE FILLED WITH MESOPOROUS MATERIAL THAT IS FUNCTIONALIZED FOR A TARGET CONTAMINANT.A METHOD OF MAKING A FILTER ELEMENT HAVING MESOPOROUS MATERIAL FILLED FLUTES IS ALSO PROVIDED.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an apparatus for separating liquids and solids from a gas stream and simultaneously coalescing liquids from the gas stream. The apparatus includes a closed vessel having a longitudinally extending length, an initially open interior, an input port at an extent and an output port at an opposite extent thereof. There is a partition located within the vessel interior that divides the vessel interior into a first stage and a second stage. There is at least one opening in the partition. A separator/coalescer filter element is disposed within the vessel to sealingly extend from within the first stage through the opening into the second stage. There is a chevron-type seal or an O-ring seal between the filter element and the opening. The input port, vessel interior, separator/coalescer filter element and output port together define a flow passage within the apparatus, whereby the gas stream flows into the first stage through the input port and through the filter element hollow core, thereby filtering solids out of the gas stream, separating liquids from the gas stream, and pre-coalescing liquids in the gas stream. The gas stream then flows along the hollow core past the partition and back through the filter element into the second stage through a louvered impingement baffle, thereby coalescing liquids out of the gas stream, the gas stream then exiting the second stage through the outlet port. The louvered impingement baffle conditions the gas stream to create a scrubbing effect on any fine mist exiting the separator/coalescer filter element.
Abstract:
A CONTAMINANT ADSORPTION IS PROVIDED THAT INCLUDES A SELF-ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS ON MESOPOROUS SUPPORTS (SAMMS) ON A LATTICE SUPPORT STRUCTURE SUCH AS SINTERED METAL WIRE MESH (180). INDIVIDUAL WIRE FIBERS OF THE SINTERED WIRE MESH MAY HAVE A FILM COATING OF MESOPOROUS MATERIAL (12) THAT IS FUNCTIONALIZED FOR A TARGET METAL. THE MESH MATERIAL IS FORMED INTO FILTRATION ELEMENTS WITH OR WITHOUT PARTICULATE FILTRATION MEDIA. SYSTEMS EMPLOYING SUCH FILTRATION ELEMENTS IN ONE OR MULTIPLE STAGES ARE ALSO DISCLOSED WITH AN OPTIONAL ACID WAS STRIPPING SYSTEM FOR REGENERATING SAMMS AND TO FACILITATE RECLAMATION OF CONTAMINANTS THAT CAN BE REFINED INTO USABLE COMMERCIAL MATERIALS.
Abstract:
Un elemento de filtro (60) que comprende: una tira no tejida (611) que tiene una porosidad seleccionada y que se enrolla en espiral sobre ella misma en múltiples capas que se traslapan para formar múltiples bandas de un grosor radial seleccionado; una tira de inserción (651) que es menos permeable que la tira no tejida (611) y que se coloca dentro de una banda (61) formada por la tira no tejida (611) en donde la banda (61), dentro de la cual se coloca la tira de inserción (651), puede formarse por la colocación de la tira de inserción (651) sustancialmente paralela y contra una superficie de una tira no tejida (611) y enrollar simultáneamente la tira no tejida (611) y la tira de inserción (651), caracterizada porque la tira de inserción (651) se coloca en múltiples capas que se traslapan dentro de la banda (61) formada por la tira no tejida (611) y cada capa de la tira de inserción (651) se intercala entre dos capas adyacentes que se traslapan de la tira no tejida (611); y una ruta (66) de flujo de fluido definida por la tira de inserción (651), a fin de controlar e impartir un patrón de flujo a través del elemento de filtro (60) dirigido de una dirección sustancialmente radial a través del elemento de filtro (60) a sustancialmente axial a lo largo de la longitud del elemento de filtro (60).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an apparatus for separating liquids and solids from a gas stream and simultaneously coalescing liquids from the gas stream. The apparatus includes a closed vessel having a longitudinally extending length, an initially open interior, an input port at an extent and an output port at an opposite extent thereof. There is a partition located within the vessel interior that divides the vessel interior into a first stage and a second stage. There is at least one opening in the partition. A separator/coalescer filter element is disposed within the vessel to sealingly extend from within the first stage through the opening into the second stage. There is a chevron-type seal or an O-ring seal between the filter element and the opening. The input port, vessel interior, separator/coalescer filter element and output port together define a flow passage within the apparatus, whereby the gas stream flows into the first stage through the input port and through the filter element hollow core, thereby filtering solids out of the gas stream, separating liquids from the gas stream, and pre-coalescing liquids in the gas stream. The gas stream then flows along the hollow core past the partition and back through the filter element into the second stage, thereby coalescing liquids out of the gas stream, the gas stream then exiting the second stage through the outlet port.