US 12,420,253 B2
Resaturation of gas into a liquid feedstream
John N. Glover, Houston, TX (US); Bradley Glover, Houston, TX (US); Austin Schneider, Humble, TX (US); and Peter Gregory Ham, Houston, TX (US)
Assigned to Crystaphase Products, Inc., Houston, TX (US)
Filed by Crystaphase Products, Inc., Houston, TX (US)
Filed on Aug. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/236,316.
Application 18/236,316 is a continuation of application No. 17/360,579, filed on Jun. 28, 2021, granted, now 11,731,095.
Application 17/360,579 is a continuation of application No. 17/129,488, filed on Dec. 21, 2020, granted, now 11,052,363, issued on Jul. 6, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/951,681, filed on Dec. 20, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0390723 A1, Dec. 7, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B01J 8/02 (2006.01)
CPC B01J 8/0278 (2013.01) [B01J 2208/00274 (2013.01); B01J 2208/00283 (2013.01); B01J 2208/025 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A trickle bed process vessel for treatment of a reactant-lean, product-rich liquid stream, comprising:
an exchange layer comprising a plurality of collector media and a plurality of releaser media, wherein the exchange layer is capable of facilitating diffusion of one or more reactants from a gas phase into a reactant-lean, product-rich liquid phase within the exchange layer to form a reactant-rich, product-lean liquid phase; and
a treatment layer downstream of the exchange layer comprising a bed of porous solid elements, the porous solid elements comprising at least one of catalysts, sorbents and reactants and capable of performing a treating process to remove an undesired species from the liquid phase,
wherein the collector media comprise porous solid materials capable of collecting the reactant-lean liquid phase within the collector media, and wherein the releaser media comprise solid materials having a thin film formed on an outer surface thereof that is capable of facilitating contact and diffusion between the reactant-lean, product-rich liquid phase and the gas phase, and wherein the thin film is formed on the releaser media during processing as a result of liquid released from the collected liquid phase, and wherein the size of the releaser media is no more than one-fourth the size of the collector media.