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Apparatus for treating exhaust gas

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6484479
The invention discloses an apparatus for treatment of exhaust gas from internal combustion engines, for use in underground mine workings. The equipment consists of an exhaust pipe with a water jacket, and a conditioner chamber retaining a bath of water through which the exhaust gas flows in passing through the inlet to the outlet of the chamber, the chamber further including means for condensing water vaporized from the bath by passage of exhaust gas therethrough and for discharging such condensed water back to the bath. The apparatus may include a heat exchanger upstream of the conditioner chamber and containing a system of plates or webs which sub-divide the gas flow path through the heat exchanger into passageways, the plates or webs being connected to the inner wall of a water jacketed casing of the heat exchanger.
Assignee:
Becorit (G.B.) Limited
Patent Number(s):
US 4133654
OSTI ID:
6484479
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English