Apparatus and method for separating immiscible liquid mixtures
AssigneeChemische Fabrik Feising GmbH
InventorsHelmut Sachse, Konrad Schembra, Horst Fleischmann, Rudolf Griesshammer
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Abstract
A device for separating mixtures of liquids not miscible with one another, especially of oil/water mixtures and with a filter medium of a viscose sponge layer which is capable of taking up oil and water is provided. The device is characterized in that, in the direction of flow of the liquid mixture to be separated after at least one viscose sponge layer (3), there is arranged at least one oil repellent viscose cloth (4). The device has the advantage that is allows in simple and certain fashion the separation of oil/water mixtures and an environmentally friendly disposal of the separated oil.
Claims8
An apparatus for separating immiscible liquid mixtures, particularly oil and water mixtures comprising:
- a housing,
- at least one viscose sponge layer capable of taking up oil and water extending across the cross section of said housing, wherein said sponge layer has an upperside and an underside and said liquid mixture flows through said sponge from said upperside to said underside, and
- at least one oil repellant viscose cloth having an upperside and an underside wherein the upperside of said cloth covers the entire surface of the underside of said sponge layer, said viscose sponge layer being at least 25 times as thick as said viscose cloth.
A method for separating an oil and water mixture comprising the steps of passing said mixture through at least one viscose sponge layer capable of taking up oil and water and subsequently passing said mixture through at least one oil repellent viscose cloth layer, wherein the viscose sponge layer is at least 25 times the thickness of the viscose cloth.
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