Apparatus for separating liquid droplets out of a feed gas stream comprising them with a liquid loading of > 10 L of liquid/m3 of feed gas

US8764886B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Joerg Halpap · Speyer, DE
• Andreas Bode · Bellevue, US
• Eberhard Herrmann · Meiningen, DE
• Markus Linsenbuehler · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Bernd Sachweh · Meckenheim, DE
• Michael Pilz · Hemsbach, DE
• Michael Mertler · West Greenwich, US
• Matthias Meier · Ribnitz-Damgarten, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 13, 2010
• Grant date: Jul 1, 2014
• Expiry date: Jun 20, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B04C9/00
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

An apparatus, for separating liquid droplets out of a feed gas stream, includes a delay vessel for preliminary separation of some of the liquid droplets out of the feed gas stream under gravity, with an inlet line for the feed gas stream and an outlet line for the gas stream which has been depleted of liquid droplets and which flows out of the delay vessel and a tangential supply thereof into a centrifugal droplet separator. The outlet line is arranged in the upper region of the delay vessel and spaced apart from the inlet line to such an extent that the delay time of the gas stream in the delay vessel is at a maximum, and with an outlet line for the liquid separated in the delay vessel at the base thereof.