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US 2012/0010064 A1Published application
Oil centrifuge
AssigneeFram Group IP LLC
InventorsVipul P. Patel, Allen K. MacKnight, Steven R. Eccles, Leonard Walitt
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Abstract
A method for removing particulates from a fluid, the method including the steps of: producing a flow of the fluid down an outer rotor of a centrifuge; and imparting centrifugal force on the fluid in a direction orthogonal to a direction of the flow of the fluid to capture the particulates from the fluid.
Claims5
A method for removing particulates from a fluid, the method comprising:
- producing a flow of the fluid down an outer rotor of a centrifuge;
- and
- imparting centrifugal force on the fluid in a direction orthogonal to a direction of the flow of the fluid to capture the particulates from the fluid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.