Device for carrying out oxidations with gases containing oxygen in liquid phase

Claim 1

A DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT OXIDATION REACTION IN LIQUID PHASE, BY MEANS OF OXIDIZING GASES, COMPRISING, IN CONBINATION WITH A CONTAINER FOR THE LIQUID TO BE OXIDIZED, A NOZZLE FOR INTRODUCING THE OXIDIZING GAS INTO SAID CONTAINER, A FIRST MIXING CHAMBER POSITIONED IN SAID CONTAINER AND CIRCUMSCRIBING THE OUTLET OF SAID NOZZLE, SAID FIRST MIXING CHAMBER CONSISTING OF A VERTICALLY EXTENDING TUBULAR MEMBER PROVIDED AT THE TOP WITH A CLOSURE PLATE LEAVING AN ORIFICE FOR THE OUTLET OF THE NON-REACTED GAS, THE OUTLET OF SAID NOZZLE BEING POSITIONED WITHIN SAID TUBULAR MEMBER AT THE BOTTOM THEREOF AND SAID TUBULAR MEMBER BEING PROVIDED WITH TWO SETS OF PERFORATIONS FOR THE FREE PASSAGE OF THE LIQUID TO BE OXIDIZED, THE FIRST SET BEING IMMEDIATELY ABOVE THE OUTLET OF SAID NOZZLE AND THE SECOND SET BEING AT THE TOP OF SAID MEMBER, SAID MEM-BER BEING UNPERFORATED BETWEEN SAIDTWO STES, AND AT LEAST ONE FURTHER MIXING CHAMBER POSITIONED ABOVE SAID FIRST MIXING CHAMBER COMPRISING A PERFORATED WALL AND A PLURALITY OF PERFORATED SHEETS LOCATED INTERNALLY OF SAID FURTHER MIXING CHAMBER AND ARRANGED AT AN ANGLE OF APPROXIMATELY 90* TO THE DIRECTION OF FLOW OF THE OXIDIZING GAS.