Patent ID: 8968451
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: B01D

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for concentrating solution comprising: a plurality of nozzles configured to spray a solution as mist; a gas supplier configured to supply a carrier gas into the sprayed mist and to transfer the mist as a gas-mist mixture; and a separator configured to separate the gas-mist mixture, which is transferred by the gas supplier, into a low boiling point component and a high boiling point component, wherein the gas supplier comprises a gas mist mixer where the mist sprayed from the plurality of nozzles is mixed with the carrier gas supplied from the gas supplier to generate the gas-mist mixture including the low boiling point component as a vaporized low boiling point component, wherein the gas supplier comprises at least one aperture from which the carrier gas is emitted into a single continuous space inside the gas mist mixer, wherein the plurality of nozzles is fixed on the gas mist mixer so that outlets of the plurality of nozzles open into the single continuous space inside the gas mist mixer such that each of the plurality of nozzles emits the mist into the single continuous space, wherein the gas supplier is configured so that the carrier gas is blown in a direction that is substantially the same as a direction in which the plurality of nozzles emit the mist, and the gas supplier is configured to transfer the gas-mist mixture including the vaporized low boiling point component to the separator by the carrier gas supplied through the at least one aperture, and wherein the aperture is positioned between the nozzles, and the mist is emitted and the carrier gas is blown in directions that are substantially parallel.