J. Phil Thien's Projects

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The turbannular stripper is also capable of doing organic extraction when the vapor medium is something like steam. The steam will boil off a volatile material in the stripper and allow an easier separation of a water and organic mixture.

This type of technique has been used for well over 50 years in some chemical processes. It is called turbannular stripping. It is well documented in patents. Normally it is used to remove liquid and solid particles from a liquid/solid/vapor mixture. Provided the velocity if the mixture is high enough at the inlet of the turbannular stripper the liquid/solid phase will stick to the wall of the tube and the vapor will retain it's high velocity. The turbannular stripper then feeds a cyclone separator, the liquid/solid phase stays together and goes out the bottom while the vapor phase goes out the top of the cyclone. The geometry of the tube is critical with the diameter small enough to keep velocity high enough and the length of the tube sufficient to establish and maintain a donut of liquid/solid on the wall before the entrance to the cyclone.