Square packed tower for capturing flue gas carbon dioxide

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10821397-B2
Application number	US-201716089154-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 27, 2017
Priority date	Dec 1, 2016
Publication date	Nov 3, 2020
Grant date	Nov 3, 2020

Abstract

The present invention is related a square packed tower for collection of flue gas CO2. The square packed tower comprises an initial absorbent distributor on the lower end of the flue gas outlet, a vertical plate packer on the lower end of the initial absorbent distributor and a radial diversion gas distributor at the bottom of the square packed tower for delivery of carbon dioxide contained in the flue gas. The radial diversion gas distributor comprises a gas inlet pipe, a butterfly base plate, a butterfly seal plate and numerous radial deflectors. The butterfly base plate is connected with outlet of the gas inlet pipe. The radial deflectors are in radial arrangement between the butterfly base plate and butterfly seal plate along the outlet of gas inlet pipe.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A square packed tower for collection of flue gas CO 2 , characterized in that the tower comprises an initial absorbent distributor on a lower end of a flue gas outlet, a vertical plate packing on the lower end of the initial absorbent distributor and a radial diversion gas distributor at a bottom of the square packed tower for delivery of carbon dioxide contained in the flue gas;
the radial diversion gas distributor comprises a gas inlet pipe, a flat base plate with four equal triangular protrusions, a flat seal plate with four equal triangular protrusions and a plurality of radial deflectors; the flat base plate with four equal triangular protrusions is connected with an outlet of the gas inlet pipe; the radial deflectors are in radial arrangement between the flat base plate with four equal triangular protrusions and flat seal plate with four equal triangular protrusions along the outlet of gas inlet pipe.

2. The square packed tower for collection of flue gas CO 2 according to claim 1 , characterized in that the flue gas outlet is provided with a demister.

3. The square packed tower for collection of flue gas CO 2 according to claim 1 , characterized in that the vertical plate packing is formed by a plurality of piled packing sheets with extrusions on upper ends of the piled packing sheets; each packing sheet is provided with a diversion chute penetrating throughthere; the diversion chute is located at the lower part of the extrusion; a diversion window is provided on the edge of the diversion chute.

4. The square packed tower for collection of flue gas CO 2 according to claim 1 , characterized in that an inter-stage cooler and an additional packing are further provided between the vertical plate packing and radial diversion gas distributor; the additional packing is provided between a shell of the inter-stage cooler and a wall of the square packed tower.

5. The square packed tower for collection of flue gas CO 2 according to claim 1 , characterized in that an inter-stage cooler comprises a shell and numerous heat exchange plate pairs; the heat exchange plate pairs are piled inside the shell; the heat exchange plate pair is composed of two symmetrical heat exchange plates;
a heat exchange channel is arranged between two symmetrical heat exchange plates in the heat exchange plate pair; the shell is accordingly provided with a coolant inlet and a coolant outlet connected with a heat exchange channel; a flue gas absorption channel is provided among the adjacent heat exchange plate pairs; the shell is accordingly provided with a flue gas inlet and absorbent inlet connected with the flue gas absorption channel; a projection and a flute are provided on both sides of the heat exchange plate.

6. The square packed tower for collection of flue gas CO 2 according to claim 5 , characterized in that upper and lower ends of the heat exchange plate in the heat exchange plate pair are provided with an internally sealed juncture as connected to another heat exchange plate.

7. The square packed tower for collection of flue gas CO 2 according to claim 5 , characterized in that an externally sealed juncture used to connect adjacent heat exchange plate pair is provided on left and right sides of the heat exchange plate in the heat exchange plate pair.

8. The square packed tower for collection of flue gas CO 2 according to claim 4 , characterized in that a corrugated packing layer is provided between the inter-stage cooler and the radial diversion gas distributor.

9. The square packed tower for collection of flue gas CO 2 according to claim 4 , characterized in that an absorbent collector and re-distributor is provided between the vertical plate packing and the inter-stage cooler.

Assignees

• Univ Zhejiang

Inventors

• Wang Tao
• Fang Mengxiang
• Dong Wenfeng
• Wang Qinhui
• Cen Jianmeng
• Cheng Leming
• Xiao Gang
• Zheng Chenghang
• Zhou Jinsong
• Wang Shurong
• Gao Xiang
• Luo Zhongyang
• Ni Mingjiang
• Cen Kefa

Classifications

• Y02E20/32

  Direct CO2 mitigation · CPC title

• B01D53/18

  Absorbing units; Liquid distributors therefor (B01D3/16, B01D3/26, B01D3/30 take precedence; packing elements B01J19/30, B01J19/32) · CPC title

• B01D2257/504

  Carbon dioxide · CPC title

• F23J15/04

  using washing fluids {(scrubbers for removing solids only F23J15/022)} · CPC title

• B01D2258/0283

  Flue gases · CPC title