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Rotational mechanical gas separator

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1860109

The invention provides a system for removing target moieties from gas streams, the system comprising a supersonic expander coaxially positioned within an array of oblique shock inducers. Also provided is a method for removing target moieties from gas streams, the method comprising simultaneously subjecting the streams to supersonic expansion and oblique shock compression.

Research Organization:
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Assignee:
U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, DC)
Patent Number(s):
11,185,811
Application Number:
16/299,888
OSTI ID:
1860109
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (1)

The radial dimension of a supersonic jet expansion from conical nozzle journal November 2016

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