Arrangement for wet purification and evaporative cooling of hot gases

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR THE WET PURIFICATION AND EVAPORATIE COOLING OF HOT GASES, COMPRISING IN CONBINATION, AN UPRIGHT CYLINDRICAL CASING HAVING AT ITS UPPER END AN INLET FOR GAS, A COAXIAL CYLINDRICAL INNER TUBE MEMBER DEFINING AN INTERIOR OUTLET PASSAGE FOR GAS AND, WITH SAID CASING, FORMING AN EXTERIOR ANNULAR PASSAGE FOR GAS FROM SAID INLET, SAID TUBE BEING OPEN AT ITS LOWER END AND THE LOWER END OF THE CASING, SAID CASING INCLUDING A CYLINDRICAL PORTION, SAID INNER TUBE WITHIN THE CYLINDRICAL PORTION BEING FORMED AS A CONE WITH THE LARGE END DOWNWARD TO PROVIDE GAS PASSAGEWAYS OF DECREASING AREA ON THE OUTSIDE AND INSIDE THEREOF, SAID OUTSIDE AND INSIDE PASSAGEWAYS OF DECREASING AREA IN THE MAIN PART OF THE CASINGNORMALLY PROVIDING INCREASING VELOCITY OF GAS FLOW THERETHROUGH, AND MEANS PROVIDING AT LEAST TWO SPRAY NOZZLE SYSTEMS IN BOTH OUTER AND INNER PASSAGEWAYS, ONE O SAID NOZZLE SYSTEMS IN SAID OUTER PASSAGEWAY BEING LOCATED AKJACENT THE INLET END OF SAID OUTER PASSAGEWAY WITH ANOTHER OF SAID NOZZLE SYSTERMS BEING LOCATED INTERMEDIATE THE ENDS O SAID OUTER PASSAGEWAY, ONE OF SAID NOZZLE SYSTEMS IN SAID INNER PASSAGEWAY BEING LOCATED INTERMEDIATE THE LENGTH OF SAID INNER PASSAGEWAY WITH ANOTHER OF SAID NOZZLE SYSTEMS BEING LOCATED AKJACENT THE OUTLET OF SAID INNER PASSAGEWAY, EACH SYSTEM HAVING A SEPARATE SUPPLY LINE AND A SEPARATE CONTROL MEANS, TO PROVIDE COOLING OF THE GAS AND TO SECURE AS FAR AS POSSIBLE A CONSTANT VELOCITY OF GAS PASSING THROUGH THE PASSAGEWAYS.