Gas purifying apparatus

Abstract

Abstract A GAS PURIFYING APPARATUS TO BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH THE TREATMENT OF WORK WITH A GAS FROM WHICH PRODUCTS ARE TO BE REMOVED BEFORE THE GAS IS DISCHARGED TO THE OUTER ATMOSPHERE. A CIRCULATING MEANS CIRCULATES THE GAS FIRST INTO ENGAGEMENT WITH THE WORK SO AS TO TREAT THE LATTER AND THEN ALONG A RETURN AWAY FROM THE WORK AND BACK INTO ENGAGEMENT WITH THE WORK. A DISCHARGE MEANS COMMUNICATES WITH THIS RETURN FOR DISCHARGING A FIXED FRACTION OF THE GAS WHICH FLOWS THERETHROUGH OUT TO THE OUTER ATMOSPHERE. A DISCHARGE CATALYZER MEANS IS SITUATED IN THE PATH OF FLOW OF THIS FRACTION OF THE GAS TO THE DISCHARGE MEANS TO REMOVE FROM THIS FRACTION OF THE GAS AT LEAST PART OF THE PRODUCTS SUSPENDED THEREIN BEFORE THE FRACTION OF THE GAS IS DISCHARGED OUT THROUGH THE DISCHARGE MEANS. A RECIRCULATING CATALYZER MEANS IS SITUATED IN THE PATH OF FLOW OF THE REMAINDER OF THE GAS FLOWING THROUGH THE RETURN SO AS TO REMOVE AT LEAST PART OF THE PRODUCTS SUSPENDED IN THIS REMAINDER OF THE GAS. THE DISCHARGE CATALYZER MEANS HAS WITH RESPECT TO THIS FIXED FRACTION OF THE GAS WHICH FLOWS OUT THROUGH THE DISCHARGE MEANS AN EFFECTIVE SURFACE AREA WHICH IS SUBSTANTIALLY GREATER THAN THE EFFECTIVE SURFACE AREA OF THE RECIRCULATING CATALYZER MEANS WITH RESPECT TO THE REMAINDER OF THE GAS WHICH IS RECIRCULATED BACK INTO ENGAGEMENT WITH THE WORK, SO THAT THE DISCHARGE CATALYZER MEANS NECESSRILY OPERATES WITH AN EFFICIENCY WHICH SUBSTANTIALLY GREATER THAN THAT WITH WHICH THE RECIRCULATING CATALYZER MEANS OPERATES.

Inventors

• 👤 Fritz Weber

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