Abstract: A steam distribution device for a steam humidification system is a source of steam, a horizontally mounted steam dispersion element for receiving steam from the source of steam and for dispersing a portion of the steam into an air stream, a horizontally mounted jacket partially surrounding the steam dispersion element and unconnected to the source of steam for maintaining the temperature of the steam dispersion element at about the temperature of the steam, the jacket being in flow communication with the dispersion element and receiving steam from the dispersion element, and a condensate collection element separate from the source of steam and connected to the jacket for collecting condensation from the jacket.

Abstract: A steam separator achieves primary separation by directing the flow of a steam-water mixture against a baffle. The baffle redirects the flow so that the steam-water mixture is directed toward the surface of accumulated water ordinarily present in the separator. The liquid components of the steam-water mixture collect on the baffle and drip down into the accumulated water. The steam components pass around the edge of the baffle and escape upwardly. To improve the effectiveness of the separator, the edge of the baffle is extended below the water surface and openings or gables are formed in the baffle above the level of the water surface. The spaces between the gables provide a surface along which the separated liquid water component can flow undisturbed into the accumulated water, and the gables provide ports through which the steam component can escape from the baffle without reentraining significant amounts of the separated liquid water component.

Abstract: A separator/injector having an outlet pressure higher than an inlet pressure thereof is introduced instead of the dynamic equipment for a reactor recirculation system that is necessary in the prior art, to achieve both liquid-vapor separation and forced circulation. A jet pump and a recirculation flow-rate control valve are provided in a lower portion of a downcomer portion of a reactor pressure vessel. A shroud head has a double-walled structure, a two-phase liquid-vapor flow that is flowing from a lower portion of the lower shroud head is accelerated by an accelerator nozzle of the separator/injector, and a liquid component of the thus-separated flow is increased in pressure and guided into a jet pump through a space formed between the double shroud heads.

Abstract: A universal insert used with a device to drain condensate from a steam system while minimizing the passage of steam. The insert includes an anchor with tapering threads that can be crushed, permitting the insert to be used with radiator steam traps having differing sizes, and of different models. Nozzle or orifice-type constricted passageways can be located within the anchor. A filter device for use with the anchor has an adjustable height.

Abstract: A steam condensate recovery component particularly useful for pressurized deaerator units, the recovery component being a vertical extension pipe of thermally conductive material connected to a system air vent and extending into the atmosphere. The extension pipe includes a thermally controlled steam trap at the distal end of the extension pipe for blocking escape of steam and allowing return of recovered condensate to the deaerator unit.

Abstract: A liquid-vapor separating drum has a screen dryer mounted in the upper portion between the primary separators and the vapor outlet. The screen dryer is constructed and mounted in such a way that only minimal access is required in the space above the screen dryer whereby the space can be minimized. A central pair of dryer rows is installed first when there is easy access. The two outside rows are then merely clipped in place which does not require any access. The bottoms of the rows are joined by drain panels which form a flow barrier and which serve to collect the liquid extracted by the screens. Hanging rods are used to support these drain panels and thereby indirectly support the bottoms of the rows. Vortex breakers in drain apertures of the drain panels improve the drainage rate.

Abstract: An oil/air separator includes a tank having a cylindrical wall and opposed end walls. The first channel wall has a bend portion therein and a cap portion normal thereto which interconnects the first channel wall with the cylindrical wall. The first channel wall further includes a first end and a second end, each of which is spaced from the cylindrical wall. A second channel wall is also positioned within the tank between and substantially axially aligned with the cylindrical and first channel walls. The second channel wall is spaced from each of the cylindrical and first channel walls and also has a bend portion therein. The second channel wall has a cap and a base portion which are spaced apart by and normal to the second channel wall. The second channel wall further includes a first end engaged with the cylindrical wall and a second end spaced from the cylindrical wall. The cylindrical wall has an inlet for admitting an oil/air mixture into the tank.

Abstract: In a condensate separating and discharging device including a separator section formed by the inner wall surface of a casing and a cylindrical member, and a trap section provided below the cylindrical member in the casing, the trap section including a condensate discharging valve having a float, and a float cover for covering the float, an improvement is provided in that distance A between a lower end of the cylindrical member and the top of the float cover and an inner diameter B of the inner wall of the body at the trap section are set in such a manner that A/B is not less than 0.4, and in that the inner wall of the casing just below the cylindrical member is formed with a downwardly widening taper of about 2.degree..

Abstract: Centrifugal separating apparatus comprising a concentric inner and outer housing enclosing a swirling chamber through which a steam-water mixture is directed to separate the water from the steam. The inner housing encloses a first set of vanes that impart a rotary movement to the steam-water mixture accompanied by a centrifugal action sufficient to separate water from the steam and move it outward through perforations in the inner housing. A second set of inclined vanes in the space between the inner and outer housing members serve to swirl the water and remove residual steam therefrom before it is recirculated.

Abstract: A steam and water drum internal arrangement which provides free access to the drum inner wall and facilitates the removal of the steam and water separators from within the drum by mounting the separators on a duct which extends centrally of the drum and communicates with extension conduits to receive a steam and water mixture from the steam generating tubes.

Abstract: A typical embodiment of the invention is a steam drying device that has a frame with two recessed slipways spaced from each other. A first array of longitudinally disposed bars within the frame are spaced transversely from each other. The ends of the bars in this first array, moreover, are received within respective slipway recesses. There also is a second array of longitudinal bars, the ends of which are received in respective slipways, the bars in both arrays being transversely spaced from each other to enable the bars to remove water droplets from the steam.

Abstract: This invention relates to water removal or separator which can remove droplets of water suspended in the air as mist, and can separate the mist from the air to change and to transform "wet-air" into "dry-air." More particularly this invention relates to such devices which have a housing with baffles. The "wet-air" enters the housing from an inlet or orifice and strikes the baffles, and through the action of evaporation and surface friction the air sheds the water droplets onto the baffles. The water thus condensed on the baffles then drops and collects in the floor of the housing wherefrom it may be drained to the atmosphere through a small opening or an exhaust nozzle.

Abstract: A device for separating drops of liquid from a stream of gas or steam comprises a closed casing having a horizontal inlet and an outlet respectively having their openings in two compartments separated by a vertical grid, a deflecting nozzle in coaxial relation with the inlet and providing a slit leading to a gap external of the nozzle forming part of a first collecting chamber which communicates with a reservoir, a cusped inner shell cooperating with the nozzle coaxially and provided with a trailing edge forming a slit with an overlapping edge of a second collecting chamber which also communicates with the reservoir, and means for the fine separation of liquid known in the prior art which are placed between the vertical grid and the outlet.

Abstract: A vertical separator for liquid-gas media comprising a cylindrical housing accommodating a gas discharge pipe coaxial therewith, the pipe and the inner surface of the housing define an annular space divided by a partition wall with openings for gas passage into a liquid-gas space, and a gas space communicating with the internal space of the pipe. The liquid-gas space accommodates blocks for separating the media into liquid and gas, the blocks extending in the radial direction. Each separation block is provided with a gas discharge means accommodated in spaces between adjacent separation blocks and embracing the gas-passage openings in the partition wall.

Abstract: A fluid separating apparatus in which an inlet is disposed in the upper portion of a substantially vertically oriented cylindrical housing for receiving a mixture of liquid and vapor. The mixture is separated in the housing by the application of centrifugal forces to the mixture and the liquid exits from the lower portion of the housing and the vapor rises and exits from the upper portion of the housing.

Abstract: In a separator, a vapor-liquid mixture is passed upwardly through a pipe over an annular arrangement of curved vanes which whirl the mixture and effect the separation of its vapor and liquid components as it continues to flow upwardly above the vanes. Viewed in vertical section, each vane has a curved cross-section with its radius of curvature increasing from its radially inner end to its radially outer end. The vanes have the form of a section of the outer surface of a right circular cone whose axis extends transversely of the axis of the pipe containing the vanes and whose height is less than the diameter of the portion of the pipe containing the vanes.

Abstract: The apparatus includes a steam separator between two successive stages of steam utilization that condensate liquid is automatically extracted with negligible impediment to high-velocity passage, to the second stage. The separator separates the liquid component by centrifugal action, into a region outside the region of gas discharge to the second stage, and an inverted-bucket steam trap is the means of continuously draining the separated condensate.