Patent ID: 7879141

Claim:
A gas absorber assembly, comprising: a support having an inlet for admitting a gaseous mixture, support walls bounding an interior channel through which the gaseous mixture flows, and an outlet for discharging the gaseous mixture from the channel; a vessel mounted on the support and having an interior that contains a gas absorbing material; a spacer element mounted in the vessel on one of the support walls of the support; a porous disc constituted of a sintered material and mounted in the vessel on the spacer element, the disc being spaced from and bounding a chamber with the one support wall, the chamber being free of the gas absorbing material and being in gaseous flow communication with the outlet for receiving the discharged gaseous mixture, the disc having pores through which the discharged gaseous mixture from the chamber flows to the gas absorbing material in the vessel; a holding element mounted in the vessel on the disc to hold the disc in position on the spacer element during gas absorption; and a lock for removably locking the disc on the spacer element to enable removal of the disc.