Oil separator
AssigneeAtlas Copco Airpower, Naamloze Vennootschap
InventorGuy L.A. SNELS
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Abstract
An oil separator providing a housing with an inlet for an oil-gas mixture and which defines a space that is closed off my means of a lid, whereby a screen is provided in the aforementioned space in which a filter element is provided and a pipe or collector that connects the interior of the filter element to an outlet in the housing for purified gas, whereby this filter element has a lid and a bottom for collecting oil that has been filtered out, whereby a drainage line is provided for the removal of the oil that has been filtered out, wherein the pipe or collector runs to the lid of the filter element and is connected thereto by means of an electrically conductive connecting element, whereby the sidewall of the pipe or collector is provided with at least one opening for the removal of purified gas.
Claims10
1-9. (canceled)
An oil separator that is provided with a housing with an inlet for an oil-gas mixture and which defines a space that is closed off by means of a lid, whereby a screen is provided in the aforementioned space in which a filter element is provided and a pipe or collector that connects the interior of the filter element to an outlet in the housing for purified gas, whereby this filter element has a lid and a bottom for collecting oil that has been filtered out, whereby a drainage line is provided for the removal of the oil that has been filtered out, wherein the pipe or collector runs to the lid of the filter element and is connected thereto by means of an electrically conductive connecting element, whereby a sidewall of the pipe or collector is provided with at least one opening for the removal of purified gas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.