Apparatus for carrying out physical and/or chemical processes, in particular a heat exchanger

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Apparatus for carrying out physical and/or chemical processes has a lower chamber an upper, chamber, vertical riser tubes for the passage of a first fluid medium from the lower chamber to the upper chamber and an intermediate chamber through which the riser tubes extend so that a second fluid medium can contact the riser tubes. A granular mass is fluidized in at least the riser tubes by the flow of the first medium. A vertical gravity tube for return passage of the granular mass from the upper to the lower chamber has an outlet below the inlets of the riser tubes. A distribution plate for the first medium is mounted in the lower chamber between the inlets of the riser tubes and the outlet …