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Gas purification treatment apparatuses, systems and process

US4253851A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 30, 1979
Grant dateMar 3, 1981
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Expiry dateMar 30, 1999

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S261/72
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Natural gas mixture containing suspended tarry particles and water as contaminants are purified by systems providing upward passage of such contaminated gas mixtures through interparticulate spaces in a vertically extending stable filter bed composed of hard lapilli-sized solid masses having internal vesicles connected to peripheral surfaces characterized by peripherally open glassy surfaced vesicles, said masses partially immersed in a volume of methyl alcohol.

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