Patent ID: 8034304

Claim:
A combinatorial process for evaporating a set of liquid feeds and treating the resulting vapors comprising: providing an array of process vessels, each vessel having both an evaporation zone and a treatment zone; providing packing in the evaporation zones, the packing forming beds; providing injectors having orifices; positioning the orifices and the packing so that there is a predetermined gap between the orifices and the associated packing wherein the gap is less than the predicted diameter of a drop as determined by the Young-LaPlace equation to prevent the formation of liquid drops; injecting the liquid feeds simultaneously into the evaporation zones through injector orifices; heating the liquid feeds simultaneously so that they will be at least at their bubble points within the beds of packing to generate vapors; flowing the vapors simultaneously to the treatment zones; and treating the vapors simultaneously within the treatment zones to generate effluents.