Method for mixing fluids

US7128276B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• STATOIL ASA · NO

Inventors

• Finn P. Nilsen · Bergen, NO
• Harald Linga · Bergen, NO
• Rune Fantoft · Huissen, NL
• Inge Sverre Lund Nilsen · Bø, NO
• Geir Inge Eide · Eikelandsosen, NO

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 29, 2001
• Grant date: Oct 31, 2006
• Expiry date: Jul 29, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01F25/314231
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The use of a turbulent contactor to absorb a selected gas component from a gas stream. The invention particularly applies to a method of distributing a liquid into a gas stream which comprises providing a liquid to an annulus at the periphery of a pipe in which a gas stream is flowing, the gas flow drawing the liquid into a film along the inner surface of the pipe to a sharp edge at the end of the pipe at which point the liquid breaks off the surface of the pipe and mixes intimately with the gas.