Fumes Treatment System
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Abstract
A fumes treatment system is provided for exhaust gases of internal combustion engines, for example. The system includes a housing inside which a series of elements are provided for intercepting the flow of fumes. The elements are such that they do not completely take up the internal cross-section of the housing and are provided with or leave such discontinuities as to create a tortuous path for the fumes to be treated.
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34 Claims
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1-17. -17. (canceled)
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18. A fumes treatment system comprising a housing having a fumes inlet and an outlet for treated fumes, and a series of essentially planar flow interception elements inside the housing, wherein the elements are formed and arranged such that:
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a) at least two successive interception elements of the series each has at least one discontinuity, such that a geometrical area of the discontinuity comprises between 10 and 40% of an area that the element would have if it completely occupied an internal cross-section of the housing; b) for any pair of successive interception elements, one being upstream and one being downstream of the other and each having a discontinuity, a projection (P) of the discontinuity of the downstream element on the upstream element, wherein the projection is made perpendicular to the upstream element, does not superimpose with the discontinuity on the upstream element; and c) a minimum distance between two discontinuities on two successive elements lies along a segment forming an angle α
of at least 5°
with respect to a straight line perpendicular to the upstream element. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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