Patent ID: 8888897

Claim:
Apparatus for handling gases, the apparatus comprising a gas inlet duct ( 2 ) leading a gas ( 38 ) to a bubbling tank ( 21 ), and a gas buffer drum ( 3 ) opening into the tank ( 21 ) via perforations formed on a plate ( 3 a ) of the gas buffer drum ( 3 ), and a suction duct ( 5 ) submerged in gas handling liquid ( 7 ) situated in the tank ( 21 ), and having a gas outlet duct ( 8 ) connected into a gas room ( 3 b ) of the tank ( 21 ), wherein said perforations formed on the plate ( 3 a ) of the gas buffer drum ( 3 ) are shaped as nozzles ( 4 ) having a blow direction (J) inclined by an acute angle α to the plate ( 3 a ), the apparatus further comprising a valve ( 31 ) for draining the liquid ( 7 ), and said gas inlet duct ( 2 ) is connected to the gas buffer drum ( 3 ), and the apparatus comprises a turbine house ( 22 ) divided into first and second chambers ( 22 a , 22 b ) by a plate ( 27 ), the first chamber ( 22 a ) housing an air turbine ( 43 ) driven by a liquid turbine ( 23 ) housed in the second chamber ( 22 b ) and the liquid turbine is operated by a liquid jet nozzle ( 26 ), and the first chamber ( 22 a ) is connected to the tank ( 21 ) by means of the gas outlet duct ( 8 ), and the suction duct ( 5 ) is connected to the liquid jet nozzle ( 26 ) via a pump ( 29 a ), and the second chamber ( 22 b ) is connected to the tank ( 21 ).