Apparatus and method to fill and empty a vessel with flammable and aggressive gas
An arrangement for charging or discharging solids to or from a vessel under gas pressure, has an upper flap-valve combination (1), a holding chute (2) provided with a purging system (3) and a lower flap-valve combination (4). An Independent claim is included for charging or discharging solids to or...
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Zusammenfassung: | An arrangement for charging or discharging solids to or from a vessel under gas pressure, has an upper flap-valve combination (1), a holding chute (2) provided with a purging system (3) and a lower flap-valve combination (4). An Independent claim is included for charging or discharging solids to or from a vessel under gas pressure, where a pair of upper and lower valve arrangements, enclosing an intermediate solids holding air-lock (2), are operated in sequence. The main features of the process are that: (a) only one of the pairs of upper and lower valve combinations is allowed to be open at any instant, the flap valves (6,9) are interlocked by switches (7,10); (b) the air lock space (2) is purged with inert gas, e.g. nitrogen, between valve operations, to displace either air or reactor atmosphere gases to a receiving system; and (c) the valve closure efficiency is pressure tested between valve operations. |
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