Abstract: A steam separator including a tube which houses a blade arrangement consisting of a set of curved blades serving to rotate a mixture of steam and water in order to cause the water to form a film on the inside of the tube. The tube wall has a plurality of perforations through which the water can escape while the steam leaves through a special outlet tube. The individual blade of the blade arrangement has an axial extension at least twice as large as the largest width of the blade, as well as a curvature at least so pronounced that a trailing edge of an optional blade is angularly offset past an imaginary radial plane in the axial extension of a leading edge of an adjacent blade. The total area of the perforations amounts to 50-65% of the cross-sectional area of the separator tube.

Abstract: A back-flushable strainer is used for filtering water to an emergency cooling system in a nuclear power plant having a reactor arranged in a containment whose lower part forms a condensation pool in which the strainer is mounted. The strainer has a suitably cylindrical strainer wall having a plurality of perforations through which the water flows from the outside and in when filtering, while the direction of flow is the reverse in backflushing. A number of wings are arranged on the outside of the strainer wall, dividing a residue or fibre mat built up on the outside of the strainer wall into a number of sections which separately are more easily released than a continuous, circumferential fibre mat.

Abstract: A liquid-regulating valve comprises a cylinder tube (6) having holes (7) through which liquid can pass in radial jets. Further, the valve comprises a piston (9) and a distributing means (15) which is fixedly mounted in the cylinder-tube (6) and consists of several radial walls (16) upon which impinge the liquid jets entering through the cylinder tube holes (7) to be disintegrated and divided into part flows. At one end, the distributing means (15) has a cover plate (20) which, at the periphery, merges into an annular flange (21) projecting axially from the plate and serving to divert and guide the liquid part flows that, after impinging upon the radial walls of the distributing means, are directed towards the cover plate (20) and follow the plate along a substantially axial path of motion.