Patent ID: 8312997
Filing Date: 2012-11-20
Classification: B01D

Abstract:
1. A module for processing a fluid comprising a body of wound layers of a sheet material, the body having a winding axis, said body having an inner and an outer peripheral surface, a first and a second end face and a passage extending along the winding axis of said body and in fluid communication with said inner peripheral surface, said sheet material having a plurality of openings formed therein, said openings forming at least three types of channels within the wound layers of sheet material of said body, said channels extending in a direction from the inner peripheral surface to the outer peripheral surface, a first type of channel(s) being open at one end at said outer peripheral surface of the body and closed at the other end located adjacent to said inner peripheral surface, a second type of channel(s) being open at one end at said inner peripheral surface of the body, in fluid communication with said passage and closed at the other end located adjacent to said outer peripheral surface, a third type of channel(s) being closed at both ends thereof, said channel(s) of the third type being positioned in said body such as to receive fluid from one or more channels of the first or second type, whereas one or more channels of the other one of the first and second type of channels receives fluid from the third type of channels, said channel(s) of the one type being separated from the channel(s) of the respective other types by portions of sheet material, the first or second type of channel(s) forming inlet channels and communicating with a fluid inlet of said module, the other type of the first and second channel(s) forming outlet channels and communicating with an outlet of said module.