US3884651A
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Method and apparatus for removing heat and elements from exhaust
Assignee: Individual
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Filing: 1971-12-30
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Granted: 1975-05-20
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Expires: 1991-12-30
Abstract
Abstract A closed container partially filled with liquid with exhaust gas inlet and outlet devices. Internal structure provides a path for the gases, particularly furnace exhaust gases, between inlet and outlet devices and, while passing along the path, the gases are passed through the liquid which absorbs heat from and removes elements from the gases. One embodiment passes the gases physically through the body of liquid whereas in an alternate, gases pass over the liquid body and are subjected to a spray which causes heat transfer and removes exhaust elements from the gases. Various devices can be used to agitate the liquid, automatic controls and operators can be used to maintain desired liquid level, and outlets, which can include automatic controls, are provided to remove collected sludges or elements. Heat exchangers using conduction, radiation and convection principles of heat transfer can be added to utilize recovered heat energy.
Inventors
- 👤 John L Velegol
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-01 15:27
CPC Classifications
B; B01; B01D; B01D47/00; B01D47/02; B01D47/021; B01D47/027; Y; Y02; Y02P; Y02P70/00; Y02P70/10
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 25
Claim 1
Independent Claim
236 words
THE METHOD OF TREATING COMBUSTION EXHAUST GAS PRODUCTS, INCLUDING SMOKE FROM FURNACES AND THE LIKE WHEREIN AMBIENT HEAT, FOREIGN PARTICLES AND IMPURITIES IN SUCH GAS PRODUCTS ARE REMOVED FOR UTILIZATION AS DESIRED, COMPRISING THE STEPS OF: PROVIDING AT LEAST ONE CLOSED CONTAINER CARRYING A BODY OF LIQUID MATERIAL AT TEMPERATURES LOWER THAN THAT OF THE GAS PRODUCTS TO BE TREATED; MAINTAINING THE BODY OF LIQUID MATERIAL TO DESIRED LEVELS; INTRODUCING AND SUBJECTING SUCH EXHAUST GASES TO SUBSTANTIAL SURFACE AREAS OF THE LIQUID MATERIAL AND THEREBY TRANSFERRING HEAT, PARTICLES AND IMPURITIES FROM THE GAS PRODUCTS TO AND TRAPPING THE SAME IN THE LIQUID MATERIAL; EXHAUSTING THE TREATED GAS PRODUCTS FROM THE CONTAINER; USING A HEAT EXCHARGING MEANS HAVING A PORTION THEREOF IMMERSED IN SAID LIQUID TO ABSORB HEAT TRANSFERRED FROM THE LIQUID MATERIAL AND TRANSFERRING THE HEAT VIA THE HEAT EXCHANGING MEANS TO A LOCATION EXTERIOR OF THE CONTAINER;SAID GAS PRODUCTS BEING PASSED DOWN AND UP THROUGH THE BODY OF LIQUID MATERIAL, CONTACTING A SUBSTANTIAL PART OF THE BODY OF LIQUID MATERIAL AND DURING SUCH PASSAGE, PASSING THE GAS PRODUCTS ADJACENT THE PORTION OF THE HEAT EXCHANGING MEANS INTERNAL OF THE TANK SO THAT BOTH THE GAS PRODUCTS AND THE LIQUID MATERIAL ARE SIMULTANEOUSLY TRANSFERRING HEAT INTO THAT PORTION OF THE HEAT EXCHANGING MEANS; CONCENTRATING SOLIDS TRANSFERRED TO THE LIQUID MATERIAL AT DESIRED LOCATIONS WITHIN THE CONTAINER; AND REMOVING THE SOLIDS FROM SAID LOCATIONS FOR FURTHER DISPOSITION.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
236 words
THE METHOD OF TREATING COMBUSTION EXHAUST GAS PRODUCTS, INCLUDING SMOKE FROM FURNACES AND THE LIKE WHEREIN AMBIENT HEAT, FOREIGN PARTICLES AND IMPURITIES IN SUCH GAS PRODUCTS ARE REMOVED FOR UTILIZATION AS DESIRED, COMPRISING THE STEPS OF: PROVIDING AT LEAST ONE CLOSED CONTAINER CARRYING A BODY OF LIQUID MATERIAL AT TEMPERATURES LOWER THAN THAT OF THE GAS PRODUCTS TO BE TREATED; MAINTAINING THE BODY OF LIQUID MATERIAL TO DESIRED LEVELS; INTRODUCING AND SUBJECTING SUCH EXHAUST GASES TO SUBSTANTIAL SURFACE AREAS OF THE LIQUID MATERIAL AND THEREBY TRANSFERRING HEAT, PARTICLES AND IMPURITIES FROM THE GAS PRODUCTS TO AND TRAPPING THE SAME IN THE LIQUID MATERIAL; EXHAUSTING THE TREATED GAS PRODUCTS FROM THE CONTAINER; USING A HEAT EXCHARGING MEANS HAVING A PORTION THEREOF IMMERSED IN SAID LIQUID TO ABSORB HEAT TRANSFERRED FROM THE LIQUID MATERIAL AND TRANSFERRING THE HEAT VIA THE HEAT EXCHANGING MEANS TO A LOCATION EXTERIOR OF THE CONTAINER;SAID GAS PRODUCTS BEING PASSED DOWN AND UP THROUGH THE BODY OF LIQUID MATERIAL, CONTACTING A SUBSTANTIAL PART OF THE BODY OF LIQUID MATERIAL AND DURING SUCH PASSAGE, PASSING THE GAS PRODUCTS ADJACENT THE PORTION OF THE HEAT EXCHANGING MEANS INTERNAL OF THE TANK SO THAT BOTH THE GAS PRODUCTS AND THE LIQUID MATERIAL ARE SIMULTANEOUSLY TRANSFERRING HEAT INTO THAT PORTION OF THE HEAT EXCHANGING MEANS; CONCENTRATING SOLIDS TRANSFERRED TO THE LIQUID MATERIAL AT DESIRED LOCATIONS WITHIN THE CONTAINER; AND REMOVING THE SOLIDS FROM SAID LOCATIONS FOR FURTHER DISPOSITION.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
66 words
The method of treating combustion exhaust gas products as defined in claim 1, including the steps of passing the gas products closely adjacent and laterally over substantially the entire upper level surface of a second contained body of liquid material separate from the first mentioned container of liquid material and transferring heat and solids from the gas products to the second contained body of liquid material.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
52 words
The method of treating combustion exhaust gas products as defined in claim 1, wherein a pressure lower than that at the gas products inlet to the tank is created at the gas products outlet to cause the exhaust gas products to travel down into then up through the body of liquid material.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
34 words
The method of treating combustion exhaust gas products as defined in claim 1, including the additional step of spraying liquid material into the gas products at confined locations above the body of liquid material.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
32 words
The method of treating combustion exhaust gas products as defined in claim 4, wherein make-up liquid material and recirculated liquid material from the body of liquid material are used in the spraying.
Claim 7
Independent Claim
216 words
The method of treating combustion exhaust gas products, including smoke from furnaces and the like wherein ambient heat, foreign particles and impurities in such gas products are removed for utilization as desired, comprising the steps of: providing at least one closed container carrying a body of liquid material at temperatures lower than that of the gas products to be treated; maintaining the body of liquid material to desired levels; introducing and subjecting such exhaust gases to substantial surface areas of the liquid material and thereby transferring heat, particles and impurities from the gas products to and trapping the same in the liquid material; exhausting the treated gas products from the container; using a heat exchanging means having a portion thereof immersed in said liquid material to abosorb heat transferred from the liquid material and transferring the heat via the heat exchanging means to a location exterior of the container; concentrating solids transferred to the liquid material at desired locations at plural levels within the container including the bottom of the body of liquid material; removing the solids from said locations for further disposition; concentration of solids in a zone adJaent at least one of the collection levels being sensed and the sensed condition used to accomplish automatic removal of the collected solids at that one level.
Claim 8
Independent Claim
216 words
The method of treating combustion exhaust gas products, including smoke from furnaces and the like wherein ambient heat, foreign particles and impurities in such gas products are removed for utilization as desired, comprising the steps of: providing at least one closed container carrying a body of liquid material at temperatures lower than that of the gas products to be treated; maintaining the body of liquid material to desired levels; introducing and subjecting such exhaust gases to substantial surface areas of the liquid material and thereby transferring heat, particles and impurities from the gas products to and trapping the same in the liquid material; exhausting the treated gas products from the container; using a heat exchanging means having a portion thereof immersed in said liquid material to abosorb heat transferred from the liquid material and transferring the heat via the heat exchanging means to a location exterior of the container; concentrating solids transferred to the liquid material at desired locations at plural levels within the container including the bottom of the body of liquid material; removing the solids from said locations for further disposition; concentration of solids in a zone adJaent at least one of the collection levels being sensed and the sensed condition used to accomplish automatic removal of the collected solids at that one level.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
259 words
Apparatus for treatment of combustion exhaust gas products comprising: a closed container for containing a body of liquid material; inlet conduit means connected to and entering said container adjacent the upper end of said container; outlet conduit means in fluid communication with the interior of and adjacent the upper end of said container and spaced apart from the entering location of said inlet means; means causing gas products to enter through said inlet conduit means and to take a path to said outlet means which, when a body of liquid material is in said container, will cause said gas products to make contact with surface areas of liquid material greater than the area of upper surface of the body of liquid material; a motor driven gas bubble disperser for dispersing the gas products within the body of liquid material; said motor driven disperser including means supported on said container; vertical counter-rotating coaxial shafts projecting into the space to be occupied by said body of liquid material and rotary agitating means consisting of two perforated discs, one secured to the end of each of said coaxial shafts; and each disc includes an integral depending peripheral flange; means for maintaining a predetermined level of liquid material within said container; means for removing solids collected in said container; and means at least partially within said container adapted to be located within the body of liquid material to be contained in said container for absorbing heat from the body of liquid material and transferring the absorbed heat to the exterior of said container.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
259 words
Apparatus for treatment of combustion exhaust gas products comprising: a closed container for containing a body of liquid material; inlet conduit means connected to and entering said container adjacent the upper end of said container; outlet conduit means in fluid communication with the interior of and adjacent the upper end of said container and spaced apart from the entering location of said inlet means; means causing gas products to enter through said inlet conduit means and to take a path to said outlet means which, when a body of liquid material is in said container, will cause said gas products to make contact with surface areas of liquid material greater than the area of upper surface of the body of liquid material; a motor driven gas bubble disperser for dispersing the gas products within the body of liquid material; said motor driven disperser including means supported on said container; vertical counter-rotating coaxial shafts projecting into the space to be occupied by said body of liquid material and rotary agitating means consisting of two perforated discs, one secured to the end of each of said coaxial shafts; and each disc includes an integral depending peripheral flange; means for maintaining a predetermined level of liquid material within said container; means for removing solids collected in said container; and means at least partially within said container adapted to be located within the body of liquid material to be contained in said container for absorbing heat from the body of liquid material and transferring the absorbed heat to the exterior of said container.
Claim 11
Independent Claim
198 words
The method of treating combustion exhaust gas products, including smoke from furnaces and the like wherein ambient heat, foreign particles and impurities in such gas products are removed for utilization as desired, comprising the steps of: providing at least one closed container carrying a body of liquid material at temperature lower than that of the gas products to be treated; maintaining the body of liquid material to desired levels; introducing and subjecting such exhaust gases to substantial surface areas of the liquid material and thereby tranferring heat, particles and impurities from the gas products to and trapping the same in the liquid material; exhausting the treated gas products from the container; using a heat exchanging means having the major exchange portion thereof immersed into and thereby disposed within the said body of liquid material to absorb heat transferred from the liquid material and transferring the heat via the heat exchanging means to a location exterior of the container; causing circulation of liquid material by agitation of the liquid wholly within the body of liquid material; concentrating solids transferred to the liquid material at desired locations within the container; and removing the solids from said locations for further disposition.
Claim 12
Independent Claim
198 words
The method of treating combustion exhaust gas products, including smoke from furnaces and the like wherein ambient heat, foreign particles and impurities in such gas products are removed for utilization as desired, comprising the steps of: providing at least one closed container carrying a body of liquid material at temperature lower than that of the gas products to be treated; maintaining the body of liquid material to desired levels; introducing and subjecting such exhaust gases to substantial surface areas of the liquid material and thereby tranferring heat, particles and impurities from the gas products to and trapping the same in the liquid material; exhausting the treated gas products from the container; using a heat exchanging means having the major exchange portion thereof immersed into and thereby disposed within the said body of liquid material to absorb heat transferred from the liquid material and transferring the heat via the heat exchanging means to a location exterior of the container; causing circulation of liquid material by agitation of the liquid wholly within the body of liquid material; concentrating solids transferred to the liquid material at desired locations within the container; and removing the solids from said locations for further disposition.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
39 words
The method of treating combustion exhaust gas products as defined in claim 8, wherein the gas products are passed through the body of liquid material and contact a substantial part of the body of liquid material during such passage.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
66 words
The method of treating combustion exhaust gas products as defined in claim 8, wherein the gas products are directly passed laterally across substantially the entire upper level surface of the contained body of liquid material and simultaneously a portion of such liquid material is sprayed down through the laterally traveling gas products onto and into the upper level surface of the contained body of liquid material.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
59 words
The method of treating combustion exhaust gas products as defined in claim 10, including the steps of passing the gas products down into and up through a second contained body of liquid material separate from the first mentioned container of liquid material and transferring heat and solids from the gas pRoducts to the second contained body of liquid material.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
57 words
The method of treating combustion exhaust gas products as defined in claim 8, wherein provision is made for controlled input of make-up liquid material and controlled drainage of excess liquid material; the level of the body of liquid material is sensed and resulting indications of level used to automatically control the input and drainage of liquid material.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
52 words
The method of treating combustion exhaust gas products as defined in claim 8, including the further step of physically dispersing the gas products in small gas globules over a substantial lateral area within the body of material by diverting the gas products to a multiplicity of vertical passages of small cross-section area.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
30 words
The method of treating combustion exhaust gas products as defined in claim 8, further including the steps of additionally treating the gas products through media other than said liquid material.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
329 words
Apparatus for treatment of combustion exhaust gas products comprising: a closed container for containing a body of liquid material; inlet conduit means connected to and entering said container adjacent the upper end of said container; outlet conduit means in fluid communication with the interior of and adjacent the upper end of said container and spaced apart from the entering location of said inlet means; means including means generating a differential pressure across said inlet means and said outlet means causing gas products to enter through said inlet conduit means and to take a path to said outlet means which, when a body of liquid material is in said container, will cause said gas products to make contact with surface areas of liquid material greater than the area of upper surface of the body of liquid material; means for maintaining a predetermined level of liquid material within said container comprising a selectively controlled valved inlet device for introducing make-up liquid material into said container and a selectively controlled valved overflow outlet device for drawing liquid material from said container and said means for maintaining a predetermined level also including a level sensing means, a control means and operating means connected to said valved devices, said control means being connected between said sensing means and said operating means to operate said valved devices to selectively introduce and remove liquid material from said container responsive to a sensed level condition; means for removing solids collected in said container; means at least partially within said container adapted to be located within the body of liquid material to be contained in said container for absorbing heat from the body of liquid material and transferring the absorbed heat to the exterior of said container; and means operable independent of flow of gas products disposed so it will be within the body of liquid material for causing agitation of the body of liquid material at least in the space adjacent said heat absorbing and transfer means.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
329 words
Apparatus for treatment of combustion exhaust gas products comprising: a closed container for containing a body of liquid material; inlet conduit means connected to and entering said container adjacent the upper end of said container; outlet conduit means in fluid communication with the interior of and adjacent the upper end of said container and spaced apart from the entering location of said inlet means; means including means generating a differential pressure across said inlet means and said outlet means causing gas products to enter through said inlet conduit means and to take a path to said outlet means which, when a body of liquid material is in said container, will cause said gas products to make contact with surface areas of liquid material greater than the area of upper surface of the body of liquid material; means for maintaining a predetermined level of liquid material within said container comprising a selectively controlled valved inlet device for introducing make-up liquid material into said container and a selectively controlled valved overflow outlet device for drawing liquid material from said container and said means for maintaining a predetermined level also including a level sensing means, a control means and operating means connected to said valved devices, said control means being connected between said sensing means and said operating means to operate said valved devices to selectively introduce and remove liquid material from said container responsive to a sensed level condition; means for removing solids collected in said container; means at least partially within said container adapted to be located within the body of liquid material to be contained in said container for absorbing heat from the body of liquid material and transferring the absorbed heat to the exterior of said container; and means operable independent of flow of gas products disposed so it will be within the body of liquid material for causing agitation of the body of liquid material at least in the space adjacent said heat absorbing and transfer means.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
259 words
Apparatus for treatment of combustion exhaust gas products comprising: a closed container for containing a body of liquid material; inlet conduit means connected to and entering said container adjacent the upper end of said container; outlet conduit means in fluid communication with the interior of and adjacent the upper end of said container and spaced apart from the entering location of said inlet means; means including means generating a differential pressure across said inlet means and said outlet means causing gas products to enter through said inlet conduit means and to take a path to said outlet means which, when a body of liquid material is in said container, will cause said gas products to make contact with surface areas of liquid material greater than the area of upper surface of the body of liquid material; means for maintaining a predetermined level of liquid material within a said container including; means to sense the presence of a zone of separated solids within said container and to control automatic removal of said sensed zone of solids; means at least partially within said container adapted to be located within the body of liquid material to be contained in said container for absorbing heat from the body of liquid material and transferring the absorbed heat to the exterior of said container; and means operable independent of flow of gas products disposed so it will be within the body of liquid material for causing agitation of the body of liquid material at least in the space adjacent said heat absorbing and transfer means.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
259 words
Apparatus for treatment of combustion exhaust gas products comprising: a closed container for containing a body of liquid material; inlet conduit means connected to and entering said container adjacent the upper end of said container; outlet conduit means in fluid communication with the interior of and adjacent the upper end of said container and spaced apart from the entering location of said inlet means; means including means generating a differential pressure across said inlet means and said outlet means causing gas products to enter through said inlet conduit means and to take a path to said outlet means which, when a body of liquid material is in said container, will cause said gas products to make contact with surface areas of liquid material greater than the area of upper surface of the body of liquid material; means for maintaining a predetermined level of liquid material within a said container including; means to sense the presence of a zone of separated solids within said container and to control automatic removal of said sensed zone of solids; means at least partially within said container adapted to be located within the body of liquid material to be contained in said container for absorbing heat from the body of liquid material and transferring the absorbed heat to the exterior of said container; and means operable independent of flow of gas products disposed so it will be within the body of liquid material for causing agitation of the body of liquid material at least in the space adjacent said heat absorbing and transfer means.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
258 words
Apparatus for treatment of combustion exhaust gas products comprising: a closed container for containing a body of liquid material; inlet conduit means connected to and entering said container adjacent the upper end of said container; outlet conduit means in fluid communication with the interior of and adjacent the upper end of said container and spaced apart from the entering location of said inlet means; means including means generating a differential pressure across said inlet means and said outlet means causing gas products to enter through said inlet conduit means and to take a path to said outlet means which, when a body of liquid material is in said container, will cause said gas products to make contact with surface areas of liquid material greater than the area of upper surface of the body of liquid material; means for maintaining a predetermined level of liquid material within said container; means for dispersing said gas products within the body of liquid comprising a motor driven gas bubble disperser; means for removing solids collected in said container; means at least partially within said container adapted to be located within the body of liquid material to be contained in said container for absorbing heat from the body of liquid material and transferring the absorbed heat to the exterior of said container; and means operable independent of flow of gas products disposed so it will be within the body of liquid material for causing agitation of the body of liquid material at least in the space adjacent said heat absorbing and transfer means.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
258 words
Apparatus for treatment of combustion exhaust gas products comprising: a closed container for containing a body of liquid material; inlet conduit means connected to and entering said container adjacent the upper end of said container; outlet conduit means in fluid communication with the interior of and adjacent the upper end of said container and spaced apart from the entering location of said inlet means; means including means generating a differential pressure across said inlet means and said outlet means causing gas products to enter through said inlet conduit means and to take a path to said outlet means which, when a body of liquid material is in said container, will cause said gas products to make contact with surface areas of liquid material greater than the area of upper surface of the body of liquid material; means for maintaining a predetermined level of liquid material within said container; means for dispersing said gas products within the body of liquid comprising a motor driven gas bubble disperser; means for removing solids collected in said container; means at least partially within said container adapted to be located within the body of liquid material to be contained in said container for absorbing heat from the body of liquid material and transferring the absorbed heat to the exterior of said container; and means operable independent of flow of gas products disposed so it will be within the body of liquid material for causing agitation of the body of liquid material at least in the space adjacent said heat absorbing and transfer means.
Claim 25
Dependent Claim
66 words
Apparatus for treating gas products as defined in claim 17, wherein said motor driven disperser is combined with at least a portion of said means for agitating the body of liquid and includes means supported on said container, vertical shaft means projecting into the space to be occupied by said body of liquid material and rotary agitating means secured to the end of said shaft means.
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