Contact tray for a mass transfer column

US9199206B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Sulzer Chemtech AG · CH

Inventors

• Mark W. Pilling · Jenks, US
• Stefan Hirsch · Stuttgart, DE
• Markus Fischer · Offenburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 29, 2011
• Grant date: Dec 1, 2015
• Expiry date: Jun 1, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01D3/205
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The valve cover has a guide vane extending laterally and downwardly from the central portion towards and in spaced relation to the tray deck for deflecting a majority of the vapor passing upwardly through an orifice downward towards the tray deck. A de-entrainment device with a downwardly angled deflector in vertical alignment with an orifice in the tray deck may be integrated or not with the valve cover below the tray deck.