Patent ID: 8448926

Claim:
A method for contacting a gas with a liquid in a rotating packed bed, which comprises providing a rotating packed bed comprising two sets of rotatable packing rings disposed within a chamber and defining an interior region, and a liquid distributor with at least one net for accepting a liquid, the inlet in communication with an exit port for infusing the liquid into the interior region, and at least one gas outlet in the liquid distributor for accepting gas which has passed through the packed bed and removing the gas from the interior region, causing two sets of rotatable packing rings to rotate; infusing liquid by way of the at least one liquid net into the interior region and injecting gas through at least one gas net into the interior region, with the liquid and gas passing through each of the packing rings in countercurrent flow; removing liquid from the interior region through a liquid outlet; and removing gas through the gas outlet in the liquid distributor.