Abstract: A self-locking mist eliminator is disclosed for connecting a plurality of longitudinally extending eliminator blades having front and back surfaces to a pair of end plates wherein the end plates have a pair of spaced-apart flanges projecting from one side thereof and each provided with a series of notched openings for receiving a portion of the blades. Each blade has a pair of spaced-apart openings in the blade surfaces at each end thereof. The notched openings in the end plates are enlarged in at least one direction lengthwise of the flange to provide a pin member for engagement in one of the spaced-apart openings in a blade surface and with the entrance corners into each of the notched openings chamfered whereby the blades can be pressed toward an adjacent end plate to have the end of the blade enter one of the notched openings until the pin member adjacent thereto engages the blade opening.

Abstract: The present invention comprises an apparatus for removing mist from a mist laden air stream comprising:a. a plurality of stacked blades mounted in blade holding means, each blade having an inlet side and an outlet side and being stacked to allow the mist laden air stream to flow between the blades;b. impact means disposed on a surface of each blade against which the mist and air impacts for removing mist from the air stream; andc. pressure drop reducing means disposed on the outlet side of each blade for reducing the pressure drop of the air stream across the blades.The impact means is an integrally formed curved arch against which the mist laden air impacts to form drops and down which the drops flow. The pressure drop reducing means is an angled lip which extends along the length of the blade from the outlet edge of the blade.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for introducing a catalyst into a fuel mixture. The method includes placing water in a container; passing air through the water to ionize at least a portion of the air molecules wherein at least a major portion of the air ions have a negative charge; and introducing the ionized air into a fuel mixture. In this manner, the efficiency of the combustion of the fuel mixture is increased. The apparatus includes a container for holding water, a manifold mechanism for passing air through the water in the container in a number of streams of small bubbles and means for removing substantially all mist from the ionized air before the ionized air is removed from the container. Means are provided for removing the ionized air from the container after the air has passed through the water and for then introducing the ionized air into a fuel mixture.

Abstract: A steam separating apparatus wherein a first separating unit receives a steam-water mixture and discharges said mixture in a substantially tangential direction against an impingement plate to separate some water from said mixture. A second separating unit is disposed in a fluid flow relation to the first separating unit and includes a plurality of plates together formed into a closed circular configuration. The latter plates are shaped in a manner to define a plurality of irregular paths for the passage of said mixture so that said mixture impinges on said plates as it passes through said paths to separate additional water from said mixture.

Abstract: The invention provides a separator blade for a mist eliminator of the kind comprising a plurality of parallel blades providing corresponding flow passages that change direction. A first direction change occurs immediately upon entry to the flow passage so that droplets are deposited on the blade front face. This part of the front face terminates in a primary collecting channel formed by a hook-like member protruding into the passage. The outer face of this hook-like member is convex curved and forms a venturi throat with the facing rear face of the adjacent blade. The blade is shaped to change the passage direction immediately after the throat and to provide an impingement surface at right angles to the gas flow that leads immediately into a secondary collecting channel formed by a respective hook-like member protruding into the passage from the rear face.

Abstract: A modular drying unit for a steam generator, having identical dryer elements arranged partly as a polygonal crown within the envelope of the generator and partly as a star within that crown. The dryers constitute in trios triangular cells the inner space of which is divided by a partition permitting isolation of the dryers with respect to one another, as well as guidance of the steam at the intake and outlet ends of the dryers. This type of unit is particularly suitable for generators with natural circulation, notably for a nuclear reactor.

Abstract: A lamellar separator includes a lamellar pack which is formed from vertically oriented first plates (1) having a first corrugation in the vertical plane, where the lamellae (10,11) of said plate inclined to the vertical plane form vertical boundaries for substantially horizontal flow channels, and vertically oriented second plates (2) corrugated in the horizontal plane, arranged on either side of each first plate and in contact therewith. The flow channels are defined horizontally by the corrugation peaks of the second plates, and the vertical rise and fall channels for separate pollutants are defined by the second plates (2) and the corrugation peaks (22) of the first plates. The corrugations (1,2) of the first plates are preferably triangular. The first plates (1) and the second plates (2) are preferably put together such that the corrugation peaks (12) of the first plate lie behind the corrugation peaks (22) of the second plate (2).

Abstract: A filter apparatus having an inlet duct (30) with a plurality of vanes (10) therein. Each vane (10) is positioned in the fluid duct (30) and adapted for deflecting fluid as it moves through the duct (30) and further for preventing the accumulation on the vane (10) of particulate matter entrained in the fluid. Vane (10) comprises a vane body (11) defining a forward edge portion (12) which faces upstream into the moving fluid. Forward edge portion (12) has a pre-determined angle of incidence to the direction of travel of the moving fluid sufficient to overcome frictional adherence of the particulate matter. Vane body (11) also has a free end (16) spaced apart from the inner walls of duct (30). The vane body (11) also defines a rearward edge portion (13) downstream of forward edge portion (12) and defines an angle within duct (30) corresponding to the extent of deflection to be applied to the moving fluid. One of the embodiments includes alternating vane bodies (11) positioned on opposite walls of the duct (30).

Abstract: The apparatus comprises: (a) stacked bundles of parallel corrugated wafers (4) between which the liquid droplet charged gas or vapour is made to flow, said bundles being housed between panels (e.g. 1) which are welded round all their edges to a support structure so as to define a horizontal gas or vapour flow direction between adjacent wafers; (b) gutters (9, 10, 11) for collecting the liquid running down the wafers, each gutter being located below a bundle of wafers; and (c) liquid drain tubes (12, 13, 14) for draining away the liquid collected by the gutters. The lower edges of the wafers are notched in such a manner as to catch drops of liquid flowing along said lower edges and cause them to drop into the gutters rather than being entrained by the flow of the gas or vapour.Such apparatus is used in separator-superheaters as used in power stations that generate electricity by expanding steam through turbines.

Abstract: Gas scrubbing apparatus for removing sulfur dioxide from a gas stream with a cleaning liquid capable of absorbing the sulfur dioxide in the gas stream comprising a housing defining scrubbing chamber therein, a plurality of baffles in the scrubbing chamber at longitudinally spaced positions therealong for generating turbulence in the gas stream and rotating the gas stream about the central axis of the scrubbing chamber, spray means for spraying the cleaning liquid into the scrubbing chamber between the baffles to absorb the sulfur dioxide from the gas stream, and a mist eliminator downstream of the baffles to remove liquid droplets from the gas stream. The baffles are oriented so that each baffle rotates the gas stream approximately ninety degrees about the central axis of the scrubbing chamber as the gas stream flows thereby with all of the baffles rotating the gas stream in the same direction about said central axis.

Abstract: An improved, three-path continuous cellular drift eliminator and method for counterflow cooling towers is provided which gives enhanced water removal without undue pressure drops, and a desirable water particle size distribution in the air leaving the tower, so that excessive water coating on adjacent equipment and structures is avoided. The eliminator preferably includes a plurality of generally upright, discrete, gap-free continuous cells which present three air diversion sections along the length thereof in order to divert fill-derived air along a serpentine path for drift elimination purposes. The third and final section of the eliminator serves to direct the exiting air generally vertically for proper discharge thereof to the atmosphere. The eliminator is preferably fabricated using spaced apart members having planar panels, with corrugated elements therebetween, so as to cooperatively define elongated, continuous eliminator cells.

Abstract: A vessel wall cooperating with a circular array of moisture separators which have a vertical riser tube, centrally disposed hubs, a vertical baffle disposed between the hub and the riser tube, turning vanes and an outer volute partial skirt or wall to compress the steam-water mixture against the volute and vessel wall and utilize the downwardly spiraling flow of liquid film formed on the volute and vessel wall to effectively separate the entrained water from the steam and prevent reentrainment thereof.

Abstract: A mist eliminator pack formed of a plurality of corrugated sheets with elongate retainer bars between sheets, with the bars having projecting barbs engaging sheet openings and with the bars having end grooves receiving sheet edges, and including elongate spacer strips with grooves receiving the ends of the retainer bars to form a substantially rigid assembly with sinuous flow paths between sheets.

Abstract: An apparatus for evaporatively cooling air including an air moving mechanism for supplying air under pressure to an evaporator duct wherein water is sprayed into the airstream countercurrent to the airflow direction. The evaporator duct is especially configured to inhibit moisture migration toward the air moving device and the sprayed water is precooled to increase operating efficiency. A second stage of evaporative cooling may be included by tandemly coupling a second stage evaporator duct to the outlet of the first stage evaporator duct.

Abstract: A breath-test mouthpiece of the type used to remove solids, saliva and water vapor from the breath of a subject being tested to determine a breath constituent, typically breath alcohol, including axially-aligned mouth and tube pipes with a hollow central collector having a lip-engaging edge to either side of the mouth pipe and an enlarged cross section multi-path interior baffle forcing the breath to flow along a serpentine-shaped path as it moves from the mouth pipe to the tube pipe.

Abstract: A separator for separating micron and submicron sized particles from a carrying gas, is disclosed. A carrier gas contains a component which is capable of condensation in the separator. The carrier gas is accelerated and flows at high velocity in a duct. The lower limit of the high velocity is approximately Mach 1.0. Due to the acceleration to the high velocity the static temperature of the carrying gas decreases. As a result, the condensable component condenses on micron and mainly on submicron sizes particles which act as nucleation sites. Liquid droplets formed during the condensation are in the micron size range. The paths of the high velocity flow of the carrier gas and of the solid and liquid particles carried therein is influenced by a combination of a centrifugal force and an oblique shock zone which is created within the high velocity flow. As a result, the particles travel a different path than the carrying gas and are effectively captured and disposed by an appropriately positioned receiving member.

Abstract: The invention relates to separator apparatus for an evaporator plant which is connectible to a heat exchanger and comprises a drop separator having an inlet at its upstream end receiving a liquid/vapor mixture from a heat exchanger, a liquid outlet, and a vapor outlet aperture downstream of the drop separator.

Abstract: A liquid-vapor separation device and method, including a generally horizontally-disposed arcuate passageway which interconnects the outlet of the tube side of a heater component of an evaporator to a condensor or subsequent effect heater. A floor plate is disposed in the arcuate passageway in spaced-away relation from the side walls thereof so as to permit drainage of liquid collected on the interior walls of the passageway into a liquid-collecting section which is provided with a suitable drain for removal of the thus-collected liquid. The floor plate is of sufficient size to minimize re-entrainment of the collected liquid. Adjacent the outlet end of the device anti-swirl baffles are provided to eliminate turbulence in the vapor adjacent such outlet end.

Abstract: The inlet and primary impingement surfaces of a particle separator used in a gas turbine engine are coated with a composition consisting substantially of cellulose nitrate.

Abstract: A multichannel particle separator for use in cleaning engine inlet air is disclosed. The separator uses a plurality of channel assemblies arranged in parallel side-by-side fashion within a substantially rectangular housing. Separation of undesired particles is achieved by accelerating the incoming airstream to a high velocity and turning it such that inertia carries the dirt particles into a particle collection chamber. A small percentage of the incoming air is used to induce particulate matter to proceed into the particle collection chambers. Heated air from a source within the adjacent engine is passed along passages within the interior of each channel assembly to heat the surface thereof and prevent ice formation thereon when operating under adverse meteorological conditions.

Abstract: A separator assembly (30) for an evaporator comprises an ensemble of spaced-apart corrugated vanes (31) mounted in a hollow cylindrical configuration at the outlet (22) of the evaporator. The spacing between adjacent vanes (31) is such as to prevent line-of-sight passage of vapor between adjacent vanes (31) from the outer wall (33) to the inner wall (34) of the ensemble. The upper end of the ensemble of vanes (31) is secured to an annular support member (32), which is secured to the evaporator circumjacent the outlet (22). A closure member (40) is secured to the lower end of the ensemble. The annular support member (32) and the closure member (40) prevent vapor from leaving the evaporator via any path other than tortuous path between adjacent vanes (31) in a direction from the outer wall (33) to the inner wall (34). Droplets entrained in the vapor passing through the separator assembly (30) impinge upon the vanes (31) and are thereby separated from the vapor.

Abstract: A multi-vortical separator for removing particulate matter suspended in a transport medium is described. A single pressure sealed enclosure has a plurality of contoured columnar baffles symmetrically arranged in quadruplets, the baffles having cooperating saddle portions that define four vortical flow initiating flow splitters. The columnar portions of the baffles cooperate to define regions of rotating fluid wherein the transport medium rotates and particulate matter, suspended within the medium, is separated therefrom by centrifugal action. The separated particulate matter impinges on the columnar surfaces of the baffles and falls in a gravity fall manner into a collection bin. A plurality of vortex finder tubes, placed within the regions of rotating fluid, receives cleansed air from a central portion of the regions and guides it to the separator outlet.

Abstract: A mist eliminator comprises a plurality of blades spaced apart in parallel with each other. Each blade has a step-like portion which curves smoothly up to a single plateau. An elimination chamber is located on the plateau. The length from the eliminating chambers to gas outlets is less than that from gas inlets to the eliminating chambers and the parts of the blades from the eliminating chambers to the gas outlets is substantially parallel with a direction in which a gas enters the eliminator. The eliminator is provided at least in the rear of the blades with washing water nozzles for spraying washing water against the gas outlets. The eliminator is capable of effectively collecting fine mist and removing solid particles adhered to the blades by washing water with ease and therefore has no risk of clogging of gas passages.

Abstract: A droplet separator for removing drops of liquid from a gas stream comprises a stack of corrugated plates each of which is generally planar but has a plurality of corrugations formed by alternating crests and troughs of given wavelength and amplitude. The troughs of adjacent plates register with one another to define flow passages for the gas stream extending generally in a flow direction between the inlet and outlet sides of the stack. The crests of adjacent plates contact one another between the flow passages and each of the flow passages is formed with at least two bends in the plate plane effecting direction change in the gas flowing therethrough. The corrugations are all of trapezoidal cross section.

Abstract: In gas washer and similar separator devices which utilize stationary wall means to deflect a gas flow and to subject the same to centrifugal force for continuously separating out foreign particulate matter which is collected on or adjacent the stationary wall means, the invention provides spirally curved laminae constituting the stationary wall means and co-operating to define passage means, at least a part of which has a cross-section which first narrows and then widens in the direction of fluid flow and which is also curved spirally first in one and then in the opposite direction. Nozzle means may be arranged to feed moisture into the fluid flow to assist wet separation, and by electrically insulating conductive laminae from one another, the invention may also be used as an electrostatic precipitator.

Abstract: Vanes, formed from a porous water droplet retaining material, extending vertically through which an airstream containing the water droplets passes, serves to separate the water droplets therefrom and collect it in the vane material where it gravitates to a water collecting basin disposed at the bottom of the vanes.

Abstract: A mining machine of the type comprising a body, a driven cutter mounted on the body, and an air-cleaning system comprising ducting for conducting dust-laden air, a scrubber for applying liquid to the dust-laden air, and a demister for thereafter removing moisture from the air. The demister comprises a moisture separating station having a flow inlet, a flow outlet located rearwardly of the flow inlet, and moisture separating louvers forming air channels which receive air flow from the inlet and causing moisture in the air flow to separate-out and gravitate toward a lower collecting surface to be conducted rearwardly. A moisture accumulating section is located adjacent a rearward end of the collecting surface to receive the rearwardly conducted moisture. The accumulating section includes a floor, an end wall, a top wall, and a forwardly facing entrance for admitting the moisture.

Abstract: Air-intake device for internal combustion engines in which the inlet end of an induction conduit is inserted into a hollow casing having a downward facing intake aperture in which a series of parallel baffle plates, by means of curved downstream end portions, deflect the induced air away from the inlet causing water droplets to collect on the casing roof and fall by gravity into annular water traps which have water discharge openings. The intake aperture is surrounded by an annular skirt, the upstream edge of which forms a drip-edge.

Abstract: A mist eliminator device, particularly well suited for use in a wet scrubber apparatus, has a plurality of parallel spaced apart chevron shaped baffle members transversely disposed in a peripheral frame to define a plurality of parallel correspondingly chevron shaped gas flow passages each having an inlet and outlet accommodating the flow of gas through the mist eliminator. Each passage includes an upstream branch disposed proximate the gas inlet and a downstream branch disposed proximate the gas outlet. The upstream branch of each gas flow passage is obliquely oriented to the plane of the peripheral frame and the downstream branch is oriented perpendicularly to the same plane. A mist trapping flange projects into each upstream branch of the gas flow passages and another mist trapping flange projects into each downstream branch of the gas flow passages.

Abstract: An air inlet grille for an engine compartment of a military ground vehicle sed in dusty atmospheres, e.g. the desert. The grille comprises a number of relatively thick air-guiding louvers of sinuous shape, each louver being relatively thick in the transverse direction so that the grille has ballistic properties, i.e. the ability to deflect or intercept enemy projectiles directed toward the engine disposed behind the grille. Each louver includes or contains a dust removal mechanism immediately downstream from each air-turn surface on the louver, whereby the grille is enabled to clean the dust-laden air, thereby preventing ambient dust from coating the engine and/or the air passages of engine coolers and radiators.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fin deflector for separating liquid from a liquid/vapor mixture, comprising a plurality of sinusoidal shaped fins which extend substantially transversely to the direction of throughflow and have in their longitudinal direction liquid collecting channels which lead the liquid off at least at one end. It is pointed out at this stage that the term liquid/vapor mixture is also intended to include a liquid/gas mixture.

Abstract: A duct system for distributing humidified air from a humidifier has a duct and an eliminator sheet assembly mounted at an outlet of the duct. The eliminator sheet assembly includes eliminator sheets movably mounted in the outlet of the duct, and means for securing the eliminator sheets in a plurality of positions so that the direction of air discharged from the outlet can be changed. A structural member for mounting the eliminator sheet assembly at the duct includes a track defined by sidewalls, one of which sidewalls extends upward of the other to capture droplets emitted from the eliminator sheet assembly, and a drain plate assembly for catching condensation falling from the duct. The drain plate assembly includes an elongated trough for attachment to the duct, the trough having two sidewalls and a flexible partition. The partition has an inverted V-shaped cross section and divides the trough into two compartments extending side-by-side.

Abstract: An apparatus for the separation of liquid droplets or fine-particulate solids from a gas stream entraining same in which a plurality of geometrically identical separator plates define flow passages between them for the gas. The plates are formed with corrugations and the crests or troughs of the corrugations are provided with phase-separating chambers open in the direction of the oncoming gas stream. The gas stream entering the gaps at the inlet sides of the phase-separating chambers precipitates the liquid or solids which are conducted downwardly along chambers formed by the phase-separating chambers which are oriented vertically. According to the invention, the successive corrugations (i.e. successive crests or troughs) of each separator plate in the direction of flow are provided with decreasing heights (measured perpendicularly to a median plane through the plate) and the successive corrugations are of decreasing width in the direction of flow of the gas.

Abstract: A planar condensor array 10 comprises two rows 12, 14 of generally U-shaped, hollow, alternately disposed, interleaved elements 16 disposed transversely to a flow of gas 18 containing condensable contaminants and/or entrained particles. A cold fluid is supplied to the elements to promote condensation and precipitation, and when a surface layer builds up a hot fluid is supplied to "thaw" and drain the layer in a self-cleaning manner.

Abstract: A washing tower for the washing of gases containing particulates comprises a packed bed through which the gases pass upwardly and jets for spraying water into the gas as it rises within the tower. A preferably chevron-shaped coarse droplet separator is provided above the spray nozzles and the bed and consists of upper and lower arrays of oppositely inclined plates. Further spray nozzles are provided above the coarse separator and above these spray nozzles is disposed a fine-particle separator of the baffle type through which the gas is deflected in opposite directions and with passages of smaller width than those of the coarse particle separator. The gas emerges from the upper end of the tower.

Abstract: An eliminator core having a hinged member for sealing the top edges of a plurality of eliminator sheets formed in a bundle. More particularly the core having a cam for displacing the hinged member.

Abstract: A droplet separator for removing liquid droplets from a gas stream entraining same, comprises a stack of corrugated plates having a given crest-to-crest spacing which can be represented as a wavelength .lambda. and collecting pockets at each crest having inlet slots opening into the oncoming gas stream. Each plate consists of a plurality of plate members whose length, measured parallel to the wavelength measurement, is greater by the distance of the overlap of these plate members at each crest than n .lambda./2 where n is 1/2 or 1.

Abstract: A grease extraction cartridge for a kitchen exhaust ventilator is removably disposed along a flow path through the ventilator for normally forming a fire wall, while being readily removable from the ventilator to permit access to the interior of the ventilator for purposes of cleaning and maintaining the device.

Abstract: A subceiling 10 for kitchens and the like includes upwardly arched condenser panels 12 whose free edges are disposed above hollow, U-shaped collecting channels 14. The interiors of the channels may be supplied with cold water to promote condensation or with hot water to melt and drain off fatty deposits.

Abstract: An apparatus for removing mist from a flow of gas comprises a plurality of partitioning walls and a plurality of trough-shaped separator plates, of generally V-shape, arranged to define a plurality of tortuous rectangular channels through which a gas can flow from a gas inlet portion to a gas outlet portion. Each separator plate comprises a plurality of chevron shaped directing grooves centrally disposed between each pair of partitioning walls and flat run off zones between the chevron shaped directing grooves and the partitioning walls.Each plate comprises a plurality of successive generally planar pieces arranged to form a V-shaped trough.

Abstract: A self-cleaning smoke filter is disclosed. The filter includes a channel having a plurality of longitudinal sides angularly disposed relative to the horizontal, an inlet port for receiving gaseous emissions contaminated by particulate matter and other pollutants, and an outlet port. The filter further includes spraying means for producing a cleansing spray inside said channel, and serpentine baffle means, angularly disposed relative to the horizontal, disposed inside said channel in advance of said outlet exit port.

Abstract: A cage comprising one or more wire grids for supporting corrugated plates in a device for treating suspensions.

Abstract: A drop trap for a gas scrubbing plant, the trap having a plurality of parallel spaced apart corrugated plates forming channels through which gas flows and baffles at the downstream side of the corrugated plates to impart a downward velocity to liquid particles entrained in the gas flowing through the channels. Further baffles may be located at the upstream side of the corrugated plates to deflect the liquid particles downwardly to flow over the corrugated plates as they are separated from the gas as it passes through the channels. A method is also disclosed of rinsing the corrugated plates by intermittently spraying a predetermined quantity of liquid over the upstream side of the plates.

Abstract: The invention provides for easy, efficient repair and maintenance of cooling towers by a design in which the internal elements such as liquid distribution pipes, demister, grating and the like are structurally unified with a supporting means so that they can be removed from or replaced in the tower as a unit.

Abstract: To increase the degree of separation of liquid droplets from a stream of gas by means of a separator consisting of a packet of wire gauze arranged in a pipe, the packet is subdivided along its height by discharge channels arranged transverse to the direction of flow.

Abstract: An improved type of centrifugal separator for separating liquids such as oil and/or water from a mixture of gas and liquid. It consists of an upright cylindrical shell divided by transverse dividers into three chambers. The mixture of gas and liquid is introduced through a tangential diverter into the lower chamber to produce a high velocity vortex of gas and liquid. A central axial vortex tube penetrates and is sealed through both transverse dividers. This vortex tube is comprised of two spaced longitudinally aligned portions which define a gap between them. The gap is positioned inside the central chamber. The upper end of the vortex tube extends into the top chamber and is sealed into a first mist extractor. The lower end of the vortex tube extends into the lower chamber.Due to the vortex action the liquid is thrown outwardly against the inner wall of the shell, the gas forming a high velocity vortex column along the central axis of the shell.

Abstract: A drift eliminator assembly for a liquid cooling tower employs deformable resilient drift eliminator blades which snap into mounting slots and are held in place without fasteners or a bonding agent.

Abstract: A vapor-liquid separator is provided which is adapted to be connected directly to the exit of a fixed reactor bed, and includes a vertically disposed housing, an upper portion of which is connected to vapor-liquid inlet means which may be provided by the fixed bed reactor so that a vapor-liquid mixture may be introduced downwardly into the housing.

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.