Joe H Lucero

US Patent:

42538513, Mar 3, 1981

Filed:

Mar 30, 1979

Appl. No.:

6/025724

Inventors:

Ray Brooks - Goodwell OK
Joe H. Lucero - Goodwell OK

International Classification:

B01D 4702

US Classification:

55 90

Abstract:

Natural gas mixture containing suspended tarry particles and water as contaminants are purified by systems providing upward passage of such contaminated gas mixtures through interparticulate spaces in a vertically extending stable filter bed composed of hard lapilli-sized solid masses having internal vesicles connected to peripheral surfaces characterized by peripherally open glassy surfaced vesicles, said masses partially immersed in a volume of methyl alcohol.