Patent ID: 8235361
Filing Date: 2012-08-07
Classification: B01J,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A reactor having an inlet, an outlet, at least one reactor wall and a structured packing, said structured packing comprising: (a) a sheet folded back and forth, thereby forming a row of alternating first and second columns separated from each other by separating walls; (b) first and second direction vanes located in the respective first and second columns such that at least some of the first vanes are inclined at an oblique angle to the at least one reactor wall and at least some of the second vanes are inclined at an opposite oblique angle to the at least one reactor wall; (c) webs connecting at least some of the first and second vanes to the separating walls along at least one lateral side of at least some of the first and second vanes; and (d) a multiplicity of gaps between the separating walls and the reactor wall extending from the inlet to the outlet.