Patent · US Expired

Flow-guiding device for a catalytic converter

US3986839A · kind A · utility

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13References

4Claims

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Assignee

Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-GmbH · DE

Inventors

Horst Queiser · Maintal, DE
Horst Schwarz · Haßfurt, DE
Volker Tiegs
Horst Sitter

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 8, 1974
Grant date	Oct 19, 1976
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 8, 1994

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB01J2208/00884
WIPO fieldChemical engineering
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

In a catalytic converter which has a housing, gas inlet and outlet nipples in the housing, a screen positioned in and held by said housing for supporting a loose catalyst material thereon and a free space provided in the housing above the loose catalyst material, there is provided a flow-directing device for guiding a stream, after its introduction into the housing through the gas inlet nipple, onto the loose catalyst uniformly and vertically from above.

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