SG11201805637QA - Inlet vane device with inner beam for rigidity and vessel containing same - Google Patents

Abstract

INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION PUBLISHED UNDER THE PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (PCT) (19) World Intellectual Property -, Organization 11111111011110111010101111101011111011101110010111010111111101111101111011111 International Bureau ... .... ..Yjd ..... .... (10) International Publication Number (43) International Publication Date WO 2017/132245 Al 3 August 2017 (03.08.2017) WIP0 I PCT (51) International Patent Classification: AO, AT, AU, AZ, BA, BB, BG, BH, BN, BR, BW, BY, BOlD 1/00 (2006.01) BOlD 3/00 (2006.01) BZ, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CU, CZ, DE, DJ, DK, DM, DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FL GB, GD, GE, GH, GM, GT, (21) International Application Number: HN, HR, HU, ID, IL, IN, IR, IS, JP, KE, KG, KH, KN, PCT/US2017/014918 KP, KR, KW, KZ, LA, LC, LK, LR, LS, LU, LY, MA, (22) International Filing Date: MD, ME, MG, MK, MN, MW, MX, MY, MZ, NA, NG, 25 January 2017 (25.01.2017) NI, NO, NZ, OM, PA, PE, PG, PH, PL, PT, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA, SC, SD, SE, SG, SK, SL, SM, ST, SV, SY, (25) Filing Language: English TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TZ, UA, UG, US, UZ, VC, VN, (26) Publication Language: English ZA, ZM, ZW. (30) Priority Data: (84) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every 62/287,688 27 January 2016 (27.01.2016) US kind of regional protection available): ARIPO (BW, GH, GM, KE, LR, LS, MW, MZ, NA, RW, SD, SL, ST, SZ, (71) Applicant: KOCH-GLITSCH, LP [US/US]; 4111 E 37th TZ, UG, ZM, ZW), Eurasian (AM, AZ, BY, KG, KZ, RU, Street North, Wichita, Kansas 67220 (US). TJ, TM), European (AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FL FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, (72) Inventor: NIEUWOUDT, Izak; 4111 E 37th Street North, Wichita, Kansas 67220 (US). LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR), OAPI (BF, BJ, CF, CG, CI, CM, GA, GN, GQ, (74) Agent: MACKENZIE, Stephen; 4111 E 37th Street GW, KM, ML, MR, NE, SN, TD, TG). North, Wichita, Kansas 67220 (US). Published: (81) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every with international search report (Art. 21(3)) kind of national protection available): AE, AG, AL, AM, (54) Title: INLET VANE DEVICE i Il ir) ll• el el f.r) (57) : A vane inlet device (10) cilitate separation of liquid from the fluid L . ' shown) and a bottom plate (30) spaced C tom plates and are positioned to N an opposite end and redirecting it en. ) ray of vanes progressively decreases tends from the top plate to the bottom bottom plates and to separate the respective portions ? x. ,---- , 4, [ fi 54 receive in direction WITH out opposite 42 I is from a plate go 67. respective INNER BEAM provided in a vessel stream. The the - sides between the -- top — , of from the of plate. portions I _ the the vane 11 first FOR RIGIDITY First fluid II to of the inlet passageway. inlet and I — i and end stream. receive device fluid stream second _ _56, second of AND VESSEL ,4•A 4.8,_ ,-,___ _=.__,_ _/_ 54 arrays A spacing between arrays and redistribute a fluid (10) includes the passageway I, II i I, of of flowing from r ' 1 6y I vanes vanes II — __ H r _ FIG.10 (40, the toward (40, [ II 6 a passageway an ,I, --I-54 44) first array of vanes and the second ar - 44) CONTAINING SAME stream inlet the ' entering the vessel and to fa- bounded by a top plate (not extend between the top and bot - end of the passageway toward opposite end. A beam (48) ex- to reduce flexure of the top and