IP Library Granted Patent US 12,194,413
Granted Patent B2
US 12,194,413 · App. 16/972,683 · Granted Jan 14, 2025

Method of attaching/detaching catalytic unit and catalytic reactor

Inventors: Kaori Yoshida (Kanagawa, JP); Rikio Kan (Hyogo, JP); Moritoshi Murakami (Kanagawa, JP); Naoya Matsumoto (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
B01D53/88B01D53/8603B01J19/0006B01J19/2415B01J35/56F23J15/02B01D2255/9155B01J2219/00162B01J2219/185B01J2219/1943B01J2219/328
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Patent No.
US 12,194,413
App. No.
16/972,683
Granted
Jan 14, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method of attaching/detaching a catalytic unit according to an embodiment is a method of attaching/detaching a catalytic unit accommodated in a reactor housing of a catalytic reactor, including a step of passing the catalytic unit through a gas inlet formed at a top portion of the reactor housing to attach or detach the catalytic unit to or from the reactor housing having a cylindrical shape extending in a vertical direction and configured such that a gas having a gauge pressure of 0.2 Mpa or more is introduced thereto.

Claims (8)

1. A catalytic reactor, comprising:

a plurality of catalytic units;

a reactor housing having a cylindrical shape extending in a vertical direction, the reactor housing being configured such that a gas having a gauge pressure of 0.2 MPa or more is introduced into the reactor housing, the reactor housing having an inlet for the gas at a top portion, the reactor housing accommodating the catalytic units; and

one or more hanging metal fittings disposed, inside the reactor housing, above the catalytic units, and radially outward of the inlet in a radial direction of the reactor housing,

wherein

each hanging metal fitting, of the one or more hanging metal fittings, is:

disposed at the top portion of the reactor housing or at a peripheral wall of the reactor housing; and

separated from an upper surface of an uppermost catalytic unit, among the plurality of catalytic units, in the vertical direction of the reactor housing.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 17, 2023
From: MHI ENGINEERING, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 065245/0620 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 17, 2023
From: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.
To: MHI ENGINEERING, LTD.
Reel/Frame 065245/0643 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 29, 2020
From: YOSHIDA, KAORI; KAN, RIKIO; MURAKAMI, MORITOSHI; MATSUMOTO, NAOYA
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.
Reel/Frame 054767/0221 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-133341 · Jul 13, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20210245099A1 · Aug 12, 2021
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