Patent ID: 7537644

Claim:
A method for degassing a liquid, said method comprising the steps of: providing a rotating packed bed (RPB) reactor, the RPB reactor comprising a rotatable permeable element disposed within a chamber and defining an interior region, the rotatable permeable element, as a whole, having a porosity of less than about 40 pores per inch, at least one liquid inlet for infusing the liquid into the interior region, at least one gas outlet for removing a gas from the interior region, and at least one liquid outlet for removing a liquid from the interior region; causing the rotatable permeable element within the RPB reactor to spin at a tangential velocity of about 4 m/s to about 25 m/s; infusing the liquid into the at least one liquid inlet at an inlet flow rate; applying a vacuum to the interior region of the RPB reactor via the at least one gas outlet; and generating a liquid substantially free of the gas.