Patent ID: 7736470

Claim:
A fluid dispensing apparatus for use with a delayed coke drum comprising the following components: (a) a spool that has a wall that encloses an interior space, where the top of the spool is coupled to the bottom of a delayed coke drum and the bottom of the spool is coupled to the top of a coke drum bottom deheader valve; (b) a main pipe for supplying a primary fluid stream; and (c) a split piping system that comprises an intersection where the primary fluid stream is split into two secondary fluid streams that flow in separate directions along separate legs of branch piping, where each leg of the branch piping (i) includes one or more block valves and (ii) terminates with an equal number of ports; (d) entry pipes each connected to a port of each leg of the branch piping and to a spool inlet that allows fluid to flow into the interior space enclosed by the spool, each entry pipe being (i) being disposed to direct the fluid to flow into and towards the center of the spool and (ii) angled to dispense fluid into the interior space of the spool at an upward angle not greater than 30 degrees above the horizontal and equal to the upward angle(s) of the other entry pipes(s).