German patent application No.: 102017007861.0
Title: Mass transfer machine
Date of application: 23. August 2017
The invention relates to an apparatus for effecting a mass transfer between a liquid and a gas within a rotor with a packed bed. The liquid feed is located in the centre of the rotor. Driven by centrifugal force generated by the rotating rotor, the liquid is forced through the packing to the outside. The surrounding gas is pressed by the gas pressure in the opposite direction to the liquid through the rotor from the outside to the inside. The packing inside the rotor is divided into several individual segments, which together form a circular disk. Each annular segment-shaped packing is formed by at least one structured packing, that consists of gauze, knitted, sieve or grid-like superimposed structural surfaces upon each other, in particular sheet metal strips or plastic or glass fibres. The rotation axis of the rotor is perpendicular to the packing segments.
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German patent application No.: 102017008628.1
Title: Mass transfer machine with packing channels/-tubes
Date of application: 14. September 2017
The invention relates to an apparatus for effecting mass transfer between a liquid and a gas within a rotor. The liquid feed is located in the centre of the rotor. Driven by centrifugal force generated by the rotating rotor, the liquid is forced to the outside. The surrounding gas is pressed by the pressure of the gas in the opposite direction to the liquid through the rotor from the outside to the inside.
The rotor has several channels in parallel to the radius of the rotor. These channels start in the centre of the rotor and end at the perimeter of the rotor. Each channel is filled with a structured packing, which increases the contact surface between the liquid and the gas.
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