Apparatus for separating solids and liquid components
AssigneeThe Bendix Corporation
InventorsEdward F. Batutis, Edward Rodriguez, Walter R. Kugler
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Abstract
An apparatus for separating solids and liquid components of different densities from a fluid mixture or emulsion. The apparatus is comprised of a stack of vertically disposed spaced plates that are positioned within a container and between an inlet and an outlet. The plates are corrugated and the fluid mixture flows from the inlet, and through the stack, parallel to the corrugations, whereby the solids in the mixture drop through to the bottom of the plates, and the light density liquid components flow up toward the top of the stack, while the heavy density liquid components pass through the lower portion of the stack and out towards the outlet.
Claims10
Apparatus for separating solids and components of different densities in a fluid mixture or emulsion comprising:
- a. a container;
- b. inlet means for introducing said mixture into said container to minimize turbulence within said container;
- c. first discharge means for removing a more dense component at a level below the level of a less dense component;
- d. a plurality of vertically disposed spaced plates positioned within said container and between said inlet means and said first discharge means, said plates having approximately sinusoidal corrugations in a cross-sectional plane transverse to the direction of fluid flow, each of said plates, and the corrugations therein, extending parallel to the direction of fluid flow and cooperating with at least one adjacent plate to define a vertically extending flowpath between the inlet and the first discharge means, said corrugations forming alternately constricting and expanding passages;
- e. second discharge means for removing the less dense component at a level above the level of the more dense component;
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- f. means, positioned beneath and in juxtaposition with said plates, for collecting and then removing said solids.
Apparatus for separating components of different densities in a fluid mixture, said apparatus comprising a container, an inlet for introducing said mixture into said container, first discharge means for removing the more dense component of said fluid mixture at a level below the level of said less dense component, a plurality of plates in said container, each of said plates extending vertically from a point adjacent the upper surface of said fluid mixture toward the bottom surface of said fluid mixture and also extending generally in the direction of fluid flow between the inlet and first discharge means to define vertically extending fluid flow paths between said plates between the inlet and the first discharge means, said plates having corrugations extending parallel to the direction of fluid flow such that the distance between each of said plates and a corresponding adjacent plate varies along the surface of the plate between the upper surface of said fluid mixture to the bottom surface thereof so that the width of the fluid flow paths varies at different horizontal cross sectional planes taken through said plates, and second discharge means for removing the less dense component at a level above the level of the more dense component.
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