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Article: Texas Inventors Develop Contact Tray with Tray Supported Downcomers
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 25, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Veada P. Colic and Alessandro Attura, both of Dallas, and Gary W. Gage of Grand Prairie, Texas, have developed a plurality of fluid-fluid contact trays of the cross-flow type that are provided for mounting within a shell of a mass transfer or heat exchange column.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The trays include tray decks that may be supported on rings fixed to an inner surface of the shell and downcomers that are supported, not by the typical bolting bars fixed to the shell, but by the tray deck of the underlying tray. The mechanisms for supporting the downcomers in this fashion are support brackets that are not secured to the column ...