Patent ID: 9737845
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: B01D

Claim:
1. An integrated device for removal of both liquid-containing droplets and pollutants from a gas stream, comprising: a plurality of passageways each having an inlet and an outlet for the flow of the gas stream therethrough, wherein each passageway of said plurality of passageways includes at least one segment configured to perturb the flow of at least a portion of the gas stream between the inlet and the outlet thereof; a plurality of exposed of surface portions, different ones of which are disposed along different ones of said plurality of passageways, each of plurality of said exposed surface portions comprising a sorbent-polymer-composite (SPC) material adapted for contact conversion of sulfur oxides to sulfuric acid droplets, wherein said integrated device is positionable in the gas stream so that liquid-containing droplets present in the gas stream contact and are thereby removed from the gas stream at said exposed surface portions, and sulfur oxide molecules present in the gas stream are converted to sulfuric acid droplets by and affixed within the SPC material of said exposed surface portions; and a plurality of modules defining said plurality of passageways and said plurality of exposed surface portions, at least two modules of the plurality of modules being positionable in adjacent relation in the gas stream for series gas stream flow therethrough, wherein each of said at least two modules define different parts of each of a first plurality of said plurality of passageways, wherein said at least two modules are separately positionable in adjacent relation in the gas stream so that different surface portions corresponding with said different parts of each of said first plurality of passageways are disposed in non-aligned relation to one another.