Abstract:
Disclosed herein is an improved gas gate for interconnecting regions of differing gaseous composition and/or pressure, more particularly between atmosphere and a vacuum. The gas gate includes a cylinder within a housing situated between the regions of differing gaseous pressure, wherein the gas gate provides for choke mode transonic flow of air leaks between the regions. A web of substrate material is adapted to move between the regions with at least one roller in a first region and at least one roller in a second region. The rollers are positioned to create sufficient tension as the web advances over the top peripheral portion of the cylinder between the two regions or under the bottom peripheral portion of the cylinder between the two regions.
Abstract:
Process for incinerating refuse derived fuels to obtain fuel gas therefrom by thermal cracking, comprising the following steps: subjecting the material to deaeration; advancing a bed of material within a vacuum environment insulated from the outside (thermal cracking chamber) and in which a temperature of between 400 DEG C. and 600 DEG C. is maintained by the countercurrent flow of hot gases which lap the material; feeding the material which has passed through the thermal cracking chamber to a reactor in order to be subjected to a temperature of between 1200 DEG C. and 1800 DEG C.; in proximity ot the entry end of said thermal cracking chamber, drawing off the gases generated by the thermal cracking together with the gases which have lapped the bed of material, in order to maintain the thermal cracking chamber under vacuum; feeding the drawn-off gases to the discharge conduit for the gases generated in the reactor; purifying and filtering the gases obtained in this manner for their use as fuel gases.
Abstract:
A device and a method for continuous high-pressure treatment; the method, comprising the steps of increasing the pressure of raw materials (25) in a feed tank (9) by a pressurizing pump (1) so as to continuously feed the raw material to treatment containers (6) and (6a) and increasing the flow rate of the pressurizing pump (1) over that of a depressurizing pump (2) or continuously exhausting the raw material from the treatment containers (6) and (6a) through a pressure regulating flow path resistance (59) while depressurizing; the device, comprising pressure releasing bypass circuits (55) disposed in the flow path resistance (59) in parallel with each other, wherein the insides of the treatment containers (6) and (6a) are kept in a specified high-pressure state during the continuous processing.
Abstract:
A walled passageway, having openings therein only at opposite, inlet and outlet ends thereof, has a shaft journalled therein. The shaft carries a screw thereon for moving shredded pulp through the passageway. The screw is foreshortened, having a length less than that of the passageway, and causes inlet-admitted pulp to form into a continuously moving pulp plug. The plug, albeit having some porosity, comprises a gas seal within the passageway, and inhibits any migration of downstream gas from escaping to the atmosphere via the passageway and the inlet thereof. In addition, a source of oxygen or such gas as is inert to any downstream process is controllingly admitted into the inlet to maintain an upstream pressure equal to, or greater than any downstream process pressure to insure against release of downstream gas into the atmosphere.
Abstract:
A pressure vessel 1 with an output arrangement 5, primarily for use with pulp bleaching using peroxide at high temperature and high pressure, comprising a pressure vessel housing 1, a first end 2, as well as an output arrangement 3 at a second end, whereby the output arrangement 3 comprises an output scraper 4 with at least one scraper arm 5, as well as at least one cleaning member 6, a driving arrangement 7, a driving axle 8, a bearing 9, a supporting structure 10 for the driving arrangement 7, a normally open first outlet 11, as well as, preferably, a normally closed second outlet, whereby the first outlet 11 and the second outlet 12 are provided in the wall 1 of the pressure vessel.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an apparatus and methods for controlling gas pressure within a semiconductor process chamber. The apparatus comprises a fluid conduit, and a throttle valve positioned downstream of the process chamber outlet for controlling gas flow therethrough. A filter is disposed between the inlet of the fluid conduit and the throttle valve for collecting gas particles flowing through the fluid conduit to inhibit gas deposition on the throttle valve. In addition, the filter functions as a flow restrictor to reduce the gas flow rate through the fluid conduit. This allows the throttle valve to operate in a more open position for a particular desired gas pressure, which usually reduces the amount of throttle valve surfaces exposed to gas passing therethrough. Accordingly, the amount of gas deposited on these surfaces is further reduced. This configuration minimizes any friction between valve surfaces, which increases the lifetime of the throttle valve and the throughput of the process.
Abstract:
System for feeding a suspension, preferably a suspension of chips in a liquid carrier, to a pressurized vessel in a cellulose pulp mill, which system comprises at least one pump (25, 26) between a low-pressure part and the pressurized vessel for driving the suspension from the low-pressure part into the vessel, which pump is of the type which comprises a number of parallel discs (40, 42) which are held together to form a stack (39) and rotate in a pump chamber (36) in a pump housing about a common axis of rotation, with the spaces (46) between the discs being greater than the particles in the suspension, and with an axial inlet and a tangential outlet for the suspension. The invention also includes a pump and an apparatus unit which are intended to form part of the system.
Abstract:
A process for feeding a powder catalyst with a gas intermittently to a high-pressure fluidized bed reactor for the vapor phase polymerization of olefin, wherein the cross section of a catalyst feed pipe is reduced midway through the pipe to thereby make continual catalyst feeding possible and prevent the formation of a lump polymer.
Abstract:
An apparatus and process for maintaining the purity of solid/granular product and dispensing high purity granular product from a vessel. A noncontaminating surface is provided by a cup, cylinder, or other structure having a surface of silicon, silicon carbide, silicon nitride, sialon, or similar materials and preferably operates as an angle of repose valve in a pressurized system to prevent contamination by undue contact of the high purity product with conventional gastight valves such as ball valves, butterfly valves, pinch valves, etc.
Abstract:
An apparatus and process for maintaining the purity of solid/granular product and dispensing high purity granular product from a vessel. A noncontaminating surface is provided by a cup, cylinder, or other structure having a surface of silicon, silicon carbide, silicon nitride, sialon, or similar materials and preferably operates as an angle of repose valve in a pressurized system to prevent contamination by undue contact of the high purity product with conventional gastight valves such as ball valves, butterfly valves, pinch valves, etc.