Hybrid contact tray for a mass transfer column

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9987566
APP PUB NO 20150352462A1
SERIAL NO

14760086

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A hybrid contact tray for a mass transfer column is provided. The contact tray includes a tray deck for passage of liquid along a liquid flow path thereon. The tray deck has a plurality of orifices for passage of ascending vapor through the tray deck, a cross-current vapor-liquid mixing section having a first portion of the plurality of orifices, and a co-current vapor-liquid mixing section including at least one co-current mixing device associated with a second portion of the plurality of orifices. The tray deck also has features capable of altering liquid head levels with respect to the plurality of orifices such that the liquid head level within the co-current vapor-liquid mixing section is greater than the liquid head level within the cross-current vapor-liquid mixing section.

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SULZER MANAGEMENT AGWINTERTHUR SWITZERLAND WINTERTHUR ZURICH

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Glüer, Sven Zürich, CH 5 9
Pilling, Mark William Jenks, US 2 5
Wilkinson, Peter Mervyn BT Amsterdam, NL 10 64

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