Abstract: A centrifuge of the type having a rotary basket with a bottom wall, side wall and a top wall with a central opening therein includes a liquid feed pipe extending into the basket through the top opening to a point spaced above the basket bottom wall at the rotary axis thereof for conducting a feed liquid into the basket. A feed accelerator projects from the basket bottom wall opposite the feed pipe. The accelerator rotates with the basket so that, the accelerator will impart radial and angular acceleration to the liquid issuing from the feed pipe so that that liquid is redirected and accelerated toward the basket side wall. The centrifuge also incorporates a liquid drain in the basket bottom wall adjacent to the rotary axis of the basket for draining liquid from the basket when the rotation of the basket is stopped.