Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
  • B01J—CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOID CHEMISTRY; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS
  • B01J19/00—Chemical, physical or physico-chemical processes in general; Their relevant apparatus
  • B01J19/08—Processes employing the direct application of electric or wave energy, or particle radiation; Apparatus therefor
  • B01J19/10—Processes employing the direct application of electric or wave energy, or particle radiation; Apparatus therefor employing sonic or ultrasonic vibrations
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
  • B01D—SEPARATION
  • B01D49/00—Separating dispersed particles from gases, air or vapours by other methods
  • B01D49/006—Separating dispersed particles from gases, air or vapours by other methods by sonic or ultrasonic techniques
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
  • B01D—SEPARATION
  • B01D50/00—Combinations of methods or devices for separating particles from gases or vapours
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
  • B01D—SEPARATION
  • B01D51/00—Auxiliary pretreatment of gases or vapours to be cleaned
  • B01D51/02—Amassing the particles, e.g. by flocculation
  • B01D51/06—Amassing the particles, e.g. by flocculation by varying the pressure of the gas or vapour
  • B01D51/08—Amassing the particles, e.g. by flocculation by varying the pressure of the gas or vapour by sound or ultrasonics
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10S261/00—Gas and liquid contact apparatus
  • Y10S261/48—Sonic vibrators
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10S55/00—Gas separation
  • Y10S55/25—Agglomerators

Definitions

• the invention relates to a machine for separating aerosol particles, with a cylindrical ultrasound chamber in which the particles are to agglomerate in the presence of a fed nucleating agent, and with a filter in which the agglomerated particles get caught.
• the machine can be used to remove toxic aerosols from gas atmospheres, which arise, for example, from radioactive fires, conventional fires, chemical fires or uncontrolled chemical reactions, especially in closed rooms.
• Conventional HEPA filter systems High Efficiency Particulate Air
• HEPA filter systems can only be used to a limited extent for the separation of large quantities of toxic aerosols in connection with soot or water vapor.
• Another application is the recovery of industrially valuable material particles from gas flows.
• Such a device works particularly unsatisfactorily if the aerosol particles to be separated are very small (less than 0.1 micrometer). Then the inertia of the particles is so low that they only move back and forth a little in the ultrasonic field and so cannot collide with neighboring particles. Then the helical path of the aerosol particles through the ultrasonic chamber is too short to be high
• the object of the invention is therefore to specify a machine which reliably separates toxic aerosols, so that the affected area is quickly accessible again for renovation work.
• the machine for removing toxic aerosols from gas atmospheres has a radial blower 2, from the suction side of which the gas atmosphere loaded with toxic aerosols is sucked in via a suction grille 1. From the pressure side of the radial fan 2, the gas is blown at elevated pressure and high speed into a mixing chamber 25, at the entrance of which a distributor 34 is attached. Via a heatable and fillable pressure vessel 4, for example at a temperature of about 300 ° C., a saturated glycol vapor is introduced through the distributor 34 into the gas atmosphere loaded with toxic aerosols.
• the toxic, cold gas atmosphere is mixed thoroughly with the hot saturated saturated steam via a rotary mixer 3 and pressed into the mixing chamber 25, where the mixture forms a slowly flowing mist due to the larger channel volume and the reduced flow rate.
• the toxic aerosol gas / mist mixture is divided into two streams of approximately the same size, which are separated from one another by a plate 8 and are introduced into a cylindrical process container 35 by rotating tangentially through two cylindrical guide vane grids 9.
• the position of the guide vanes of the guide vane grids 9 is selected such that the contaminated gas flows upwards slowly and in many turns due to the considerably larger flow cross section in the process container 35, as indicated in the figure.
• the toxic gas-mist mixture is subjected to an ultrasonic field at approximately 20 kHz oscillator frequency with a sound level of, for example, 155 dB by means of ultrasonic generators 37 via the oscillator circuit plates 10.
• the aerosol-gas-mist mixture treated in this way is able to do so directly due to the special physical binding properties of the glycol mist condensing in the cold medium under the simultaneous action of the ultrasonic gas particle vibration amplitudes despite the toxic aerosol particle sizes ( ⁇ 1 ⁇ m) to agglomerate larger conglomerates in the range from 5 ⁇ m to approximately 20 ⁇ m.
• the aerosol gas is slowly blown through in a rotating manner at the end via spiral extensions of the process container 35 between the oscillating ring plates 10 and the resonant circular plates 11 the ring plates 10 vibrating with ultrasound frequency and the ring plates 11 which are adjustable lengthwise via adjusting screws 19 are subjected to a high-intensity agglomeration effect.
• the process container 35 with the guide vane grids 9 and the plate 8 is constructed in such a way that the gas experiences a largely uniform rotational flow due to the tangential spiral guidance over the adjustable guide vane blades.
• the number of rotations can be set via the fan 2 (volume, pressure) and the guide vanes which can be adjusted to change the direction of flow.
• the gas volume throughput is set by valves 6 and 7 and measuring devices 27 and 28.
• the size of the required negative pressure and the desired volume percentage for extracting the small particles from the separator is regulated by measuring devices 23 and 24 and valves 21, 22 and 39.
• the electrical supply and high-voltage energy for blower 2, evaporative heating in pressure vessel 4 and the ultrasonic generators 37 are supplied via a separate electrical center 29.
• the machine is constructed in a handy format and is pushed onto or into the operating area via handles 30 and rotatably mounted rollers 31.

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• Treating Waste Gases (AREA)
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• Combined Means For Separation Of Solids (AREA)
• Organic Low-Molecular-Weight Compounds And Preparation Thereof (AREA)
• Filtering Of Dispersed Particles In Gases (AREA)
• Separating Particles In Gases By Inertia (AREA)

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