Test device for testing flexible separators
AssigneeOlaer Industries
InventorAlain Houssais
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Abstract
Testing the reliability of flexible separators arranged under conditions enabling the cycling rate of testing to be accelerated. According to the invention, two separators are enclosed in two rigid chambers, each defining a liquid capacity and a gas capacity. The two gas capacities communicate with each other, and each of the liquid capacities communicates with means for causing the volume of each of them to vary in alternation.
Claims17
A device for testing the reliability of flexible separators for separating a liquid fluid and a gaseous fluid, wherein the device comprises two identical rigid chambers, each of said chambers being subdivided by an identical flexible separator into a liquid capacity and a gas capacity, wherein the two gas capacities communicate with each other, and wherein the two liquid capacities communicate with means for causing the volume in each of the two liquid capacities to vary alternation,
- wherein the device further comprises a liquid detector to detect a leak of liquid resulting from the rupture of a separator.
A device for testing the reliability of flexible separators for separating a liquid fluid and a gaseous fluid, wherein the device comprises two identical rigid chambers, each of said chambers being subdivided by an identical flexible separator into a liquid capacity and a gas capacity, wherein the two gas capacities communicate with each other, and wherein the two liquid capacities communicate with means for causing the volume in each of the two liquid capacities to vary in alternation,
- wherein each of the two liquid capacities communicates with a respective deformable capacity in the form of bags, the two said bags having the same volume and being subjected in alternation to identical varying deformation, and
- wherein each of said bags being subjected via a plate-forming rigid bottom to the action of a lever oscillating about an axis that is equidistant between said bags and that exerts similar compression forces on said bags in alternation.
A device for testing the reliability of flexible separators for separating a liquid fluid and a gaseous fluid, wherein the device comprises two identical rigid chambers, each of said chambers being subdivided by an identical flexible separator into a liquid capacity and a gas capacity, wherein the two gas capacities communicate with each other, and wherein the two liquid capacities communicate with means for causing the volume in each of the two liquid capacities to vary in alternation,
- wherein the two liquid capacities communicate respectively with the two chambers of a two-rod actuator.
A device for testing the reliability of flexible separators for separating a liquid fluid and a gaseous fluid, wherein the device comprises two identical rigid chambers, each of said chambers being subdivided by an identical flexible separator into a liquid capacity and a gas capacity, wherein the two gas capacities communicate with each other, and wherein the two liquid capacities communicate with means for causing the volume in each of the two liquid capacities to vary in alternation,
- wherein the device includes a plurality of pairs of said rigid chambers receiving said separators,
- wherein the corresponding gas capacities in each pair communicate with one another,
- wherein the rigid chambers are arranged side by side in a circle, and
- wherein the above-mentioned means for causing the volumes of liquid in the liquid capacities of each pair to vary in alternation and in phase opposition comprise a common actuator mechanism corresponding to a cam-forming ring, said cam being driven in rotation about an axis passing through the center of the circle around which said rigid chambers are arranged.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.