System including a direct contact desublimating heat exchanger for reducing fouling

Patent · Tue Jul 02 04:00:00 EDT 2019

OSTI ID:1568542

Baxter, Larry; Stitt, Kyler; Sayre, Aaron; Hoeger, Christopher

A process to prevent fouling using a desublimating heat exchanger is disclosed. An outlet stream from the desublimating heat exchanger may be split into a plurality of parallel streams. The parallel streams may be sent through other devices for performing a unit operation, and the devices for performing a unit operation may change the temperature of at least one of the parallel streams. Parallel streams of differing temperature may emerge from the devices for performing a unit operation. The parallel streams of differing temperature may be sent to a mixing chamber. A mixed stream of uniform temperature may emerge from the mixing chamber, and the mixed stream may be recycled back to the desublimating heat exchanger. The mixing chamber may be separate from the desublimating heat exchanger, or the parallel streams of differing temperature may be mixed in the desublimating heat exchanger.

• Research Organization: Sustainable Energy Solutions, LLC, Orem, UT (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: FE0028697
• Assignee: Sustainable Energy Solutions, LLC (Orem, UT)
• Patent Number(s): 10,335,711
• Application Number: 15/485,495
• OSTI ID: 1568542
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English