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AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
InventorsToru Sakatani, Eiji Kanki, Yasumasa Kimura
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A lubricating liquid separator is disclosed which can damp a compressor pulsation noise effectively and improve the lubricating liquid separating performance without greatly enlarging the size of the separator itself. A demister (6) having a sound absorbing performance is disposed on an outer periphery side of a partition plate (5). Compressed gas which enters the interior of a housing (2) through a compressed gas inlet port (3) flows as rotating flow in a flow path (10) formed between the partition plate (5) and a portion of a side wall of the housing (2) opposed to the partition plate (5). Pressure pulsation of the compressed gas is diminished by the demister (6), and a compressor pulsation noise induced by the rotating flow of the compressed gas is diminished by the sound absorbing performance of the demister (6). Further, with the demister (6), reflection of the compressed gas at a wall surface of the partition plate (5) is suppressed, and scattering of lubricating liquid separated from the compressed gas is suppressed.
A lubricating liquid separator for separating and recovering lubricating liquid from compressed gas containing the lubricating liquid by creating rotating flow of the compressed gas, the lubricating liquid separator comprising:
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