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US 2006/0037475 A1Published application
Process and device for eliminating the particles contained in a stream of fluid
AssigneesInstitut Francais du Petrole, Francis A. L. Dullien
InventorsFrancis A.L. Dullien, Jean-Charles Viltard
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a process and a device for eliminating particles from a stream of fluid, having a channel for turbulent flow of the fluid and a series of objects placed along the channel.
Claims8
A method for removing particles from a fluid stream, comprising:
- providing a flow passage including an inlet and an outlet, at least a portion of a perimeter of the flow passage between the inlet and outlet being defined by a porous, fibrous material;
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- flowing the fluid stream through the flow passage at a high gas flow rate to cause most of the gas to flow along the flow passage in turbulent flow and form a dilated viscous boundary layer along the porous fibrous material into which turbulent eddies penetrate to deposit particles into the porous, fibrous material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.