Abstract: The present invention relates to an oil separator for separating oil from a gaseous medium discharged by a compressor. The oil separator includes an inlet for communication with the discharge outlet of a compressor, and first and second outlets. The first outlet allows separated refrigerant to escape the oil separator, and the second outlet allows separated oil to escape the oil separator. A tortuous path lies between the inlet and a first outlet, and is comprised of one or more enlarged regions and one or more narrow regions that are angularly situated with each other. The walls of the tortuous path provide surfaces on which the oil contained within the gaseous medium can be impinged, and thereby separated from the gaseous medium. The oil separator may also include a collection chamber and drainage pathways that communicate with the tortuous path. The oil separator can be a separate body that is attached to a compressor, or may be integrally formed by a housing of a compressor.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an impactor with a cooled impaction plate capable of efficiently separating aerosols by cooling the impaction plate below a[the] temperature of fluid inflowing into the impactor and a method for classifying and collecting the aerosols using the same. The impactor with a cooled impaction plate according to the present invention comprises: an accelerating nozzle for accelerating movement of the aerosols; an impaction plate for changing the flowing direction of the aerosols by means of impacting the aerosols exhausted from the accelerating nozzle, and for collecting the aerosols which are out of the flowing path of the aerosols and have larger inertia than critical value, wherein the impaction plate is installed apart from an outlet of the accelerating nozzle; and cooling means for cooling the impaction plate below a[the] temperature of fluid inflowing into the impactor, wherein the cooling means is fixedly installed at the impaction plate.

Abstract: The present invention employs a virtual impactor to separate a flow of fluid into a major flow and a minor flow, such that the minor flow contains a higher concentration of particulates of a desired size. The minor flow is directed toward an archival surface, causing the particulates to impact against and be deposited on the archival surface. Over time, the archival surface and the virtual impactor are moved relative to one another such that particulates collected at different times are deposited as spaced-apart spots on different portions of the archival surface. The particulates are stored on the archival surface until analysis of the particulates is required. The archival surface can be coated with a material that enhances the deposition and retention of the particulates and can further be coated with materials that sustain the life of biological organism particulates deposited on the archival surface.

Abstract: A filter unit for removing particulates in a gas to be treated, which unit includes a gas impermeable bulkhead that forms a channel through which the gas advances in the filter unit at least one round, and a filter member laminated on at least one side surface of the bulkhead without closing the channel. The filter unit or filter of the present invention reduces a load on a harm removing equipment, which in turn lowers the cleaning frequency and markedly prolongs the service life of the equipment.

Abstract: The invention provides apparatus for separating dirt or dust from an airflow, comprising a collector (32) having an outer wall (32a) forming an air-rotational surface, an inner wall (34a), an airflow inlet for introducing the airflow substantially tangentially to the outer wall (32a), an airflow outlet for removing air from the collector (32), and at least one fin or baffle (30) positioned within the collector (32), characterized in that the or each fin or baffle (30) is located on the inner wall (34a) of the collector (32) and projects outwardly therefrom. The presence of the fins or baffles (30) on the inner wall (34a) discourages re-entrainment of dirt and dust particles remaining within the separation apparatus after the airflow therethrough has been discontinued.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an oil separator for separating oil from a gaseous medium discharged by a compressor. The oil separator includes an inlet for communication with the discharge outlet of a compressor, and first and second outlets. The first outlet allows separated refrigerant to escape the oil separator, and the second outlet allows separated oil to escape the oil separator. A tortuous path lies between the inlet and a first outlet, and is comprised of one or more enlarged regions and one or more narrow regions that are angularly situated with each other. The walls of the tortuous path provide surfaces on which the oil contained within the gaseous medium can be impinged, and thereby separated from the gaseous medium. The oil separator may also include a collection chamber and drainage pathways that communicate with the tortuous path. The oil separator can be a separate body that is attached to a compressor, or may be integrally formed by a housing of a compressor.

Abstract: A device for determining at least one parameter of a flowing gas-liquid mixture, according to the related art has the disadvantage that it is not protected against liquids moving against the main flow direction.

Abstract: An exhaust gas particulate controller is included between an exhaust of a barrel chemical vapor deposition reactor and the gas scrubber system. The exhaust gas particulate controller is positioned as close to the exhaust of the reactor as is practical. The exhaust gas particulate controller is a passive system that prevents generation of particulates associated with gas density changes that occur during processing within the reactor.

Abstract: A method of removing a liquid entrained in a gas moving at a velocity in an upward direction from a base to a top of a stack comprising the steps of imparting a swirling direction to the velocity of the gas adjacent the base of the stack and then recovering at least some of the liquid adjacent the top of the stack. Also disclosed is an apparatus for removing a liquid entrained in a gas in a stack having a base and a top comprising at least one duct having a longitudinal axis entering the stack adjacent said base and at least one vertical vane disposed at and angled to the longitudinal axis of the duct and a collector adjacent the top of the stack for recovering liquid.

Abstract: A ventless air scrubber assembly for use with a conventional cooking appliance situated within an interior location. A ventilation hood is arrayed in an overhanging manner above the cooking appliance and includes a recessed interior defined by a planar base surface and a plurality of interconnecting sides. The hood further includes an intake and an exhaust and a plurality of individual grease extraction units located within the hood in proximity to the exhaust. A filtration housing having an inlet and an outlet is located a specified distance from the hood and is interconnected to the hood exhaust by a first length of ductwork extending filtration housing inlet. A plurality of individual filters are arrayed between the inlet and an outlet in successive fashion. The filters include particulate entrapment filters and an odor removal filter. A second length of ductwork extends between the filtration housing outlet and an inlet of an exhaust fan.

Abstract: An apparatus for separating liquids, in particular water, from gasses, in particular for separating entrained water from the intake air of an internal combustion engine. This is achieved by appropriately configuring a selected connection site in the intake section which precedes the air filter of the internal combustion engine. This has the advantage of requiring no parts in addition to the air conduit pieces already present. Separated water may be discharged, for example, through an outlet valve or small opening.

Abstract: A apparatus for controlling air-borne particles at a manicure work station for controlling fumes and air-borne particles associated with manicures. The apparatus for controlling air-borne particles at a manicure work station includes a platform. The platform has a top surface. The platform has a lumen therein. The platform has a plurality of apertures extending into the lumen from the top surface. A housing has a top wall, a front wall, a back wall, a first side wall and a second side wall. The housing is integrally coupled to the surface of the platform. The apertures are positioned in the housing, and the top wall is substantially transparent. A first opening is in the housing. The first in opening is in the front wall. A second opening is also in the housing. The second opening located is in the back wall. A blower means circulates air. The blower means has an intake duct and an exit duct. The blower means is mounted to the top surface of the platform.

Abstract: The separator is of a type comprising at least one inclined deflecting surface mounted within a fluid flowing path so that water droplets contained in the flow of fluid are separated from the fluid when the fluid is deflected by the deflecting surface. The deflecting surfaces comprise collecting recesses for water that has been separated, which recesses are connected to an under-pressure space in which is maintained an under-pressure with respect to the pressure prevailing in the fluid flowing path.

Abstract: An opposed-flow virtual cyclone for aerosol collation which can accurately collect, classify, and concentrate (enrich) particles in a specific size range. The opposed-flow virtual cyclone is a variation on the virtual cyclone and has its inherent advantages (no-impact particle separation in a simple geometry), while providing a more robust design for concentrating particles in a flow-through type system. The opposed-flow virtual cyclone consists of two geometrically similar virtual cyclones arranged such that their inlet jets are inwardly directed and symmetrically opposed relative to a plane of symmetry located between the two inlet slits. A top plate bounds both jets on the "top" side of the inlets, while the other or lower wall curves "down" and away from each inlet jet. Each inlet jet will follow the adjacent lower wall as it turns away, and that particles will be transferred away from the wall and towards the symmetry plane by centrifugal action.

Abstract: A gas-liquid separator includes a high-pressure air introducing port and an air discharging port provided respectively in lower and upper portions of a cylindrical container having a hollow chamber formed therein. A blow guide plate is provided in the cylindrical container and air supplied thereto from the high-pressure air introducing port collides therewith, thereby changing the flow direction of the air. A conical receiving plate having an opening formed at the center thereof in an upper portion of the hollow chamber is provided to partition the hollow chamber into upper and lower hollow chambers, the upper hollow chamber being partitioned by the conical receiving plate which communicates with the air discharging port.

Abstract: A sterilizing system for receiving a stream of solid-stabilizer-containing fluid and sterilizing an article comprises a chamber for receiving the article and an injection assembly coupled to the chamber for generating and introducing a fluid jet into the chamber. The system particularly comprises an injector impinger for removing particulates and liquid droplets from the solid-stabilizer-containing fluid by causing a sudden change of the stream line direction of the fluid jet. The injector impinger is positioned between the injection assembly and the article, so that the fluid jet can not reach the article without first interacting with the injector impinger.

Abstract: An air inlet for a dust collector wherein a scroll inlet duct and an associated cylindrical duct are mounted on the top wall of the dust collector housing so that dust-laden gas flows into the scroll duct and through the cylindrical duct resulting in a rotational path of downwardly flowing gas within the cylindrical duct providing a centrifugal force on the gas so that when the dust-laden gas enters the collector housing it spreads outwardly toward the walls of the collector housing and downwardly resulting in a substantial cloud of uniform flow of dust-laden gas over the length and width of the collector housing to provide a uniform deposit of dust particles on the filters while precluding abrasion of the filter media. A perforated metal plate is positioned in the collector housing in proximity to the outlet of the cylindrical dust to facilitate the outward and downward flow of dirty gas in the collector housing.

Abstract: A separation plate (10) includes a first surface and an opposing second surface. Plural pairs of a nozzle (14) and a virtual impactor (16) are provided on the first surface. Each nozzle tapers from an inlet end (14a) to an outlet end (14b). Each virtual impactor comprises a pair of generally fin-shaped projections (24). Each fin-shaped projection includes an inner wall (26) and a convex outer wall (28). The inner walls of the fin-shaped projections of a virtual impactor face each other to define a minor flow passage (30) therebetween. The convex outer walls of the fin-shaped projections of a virtual impactor cooperatively present a convex surface including a virtual impact void therethrough. The virtual impact void defines an inlet end of the minor flow passage. A virtual impactor body (33) is provided between adjacent virtual impactors (16).

Abstract: A condensation trap for a shower cubicle, comprises a generally convex cover for the cubicle, the cover having inner and outer walls spaced apart from each other, the inner wall having an opening in the uppermost part thereof and the outer wall having a plurality of openings adjacent to the lower edge of the trap in contact with the cubicle. Drainage holes are provided for discharging condensed water from between the walls into the shower cubicle. The trap reduces water vapor in the room in which the shower cubicle is installed, thereby reducing the effects of dampness caused by condensed water vapor on the surfaces of the room.

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 mist separator apparatus removes a mist and a liquid material from a chamber defined by a structure and includes a mist collecting container and a drain tube. The mist collecting container defines a plenum and has a vent and a collecting drain which are in fluid communication with the plenum. The mist collecting container is connected to the structure and is in fluid communication with the chamber for receiving the mist into the plenum. The drain tube is connected to and between the structure and the collecting drain and is in fluid communication with the chamber and the collecting drain so that the liquid material flows from the chamber and into the collecting drain.

Abstract: An apparatus for collecting airborne particles and microorganisms by injecting them into a swirling air flow from where they are removed onto a dry surface, a surface coated with an adhesive material or a surface wetted by a liquid that is swirled onto that surface from a liquid reservoir below. The swirling air motion and the aerosol injection into it are achieved by pushing or drawing the airborne particles and microorganisms through one or more nozzles that are directed at an angle towards the collection surface. Each entire nozzle or only its exit section are aligned along the axis of aerosol flow injection into the swirling air flow. The apparatus consists of one piece or of three main components that are assembled to form one unit and are comprised of one inlet section, one nozzle section, and one collection vessel.

Abstract: The invention relates to virtual impactors with slit-shaped nozzles. Virtual impactors serve to enrich aerosol particles of certain magnitudes from gases, particularly from ambient air, for the purpose of examining these particles. For very strong enrichments, reaching up to many hundreds of times the initial concentration, very effective multi-stage virtual impactors with hundreds of nozzles have been developed. However, these are difficult to manufacture and to clean. The individual nozzles can be replaced by slits which are easier to manufacture. With slit-shaped nozzles problems with instability at the ends of the slits occur. The invention describes slit-shaped nozzles, the slits of which have no ends because they are designed as curved, closed figures. By contrast with the prior art which relates to circular slits in parallel plates, here any closed figures are represented, including ones which are not in plane-parallel plates.

Abstract: The invention is a process and apparatus for rapidly and efficiently separating a fluidized catalytic cracking mixture into cracking catalysts and hydrocarbon vapor. The invention decreases the production of unwanted hydrocarbon byproducts by decreasing the contact time between the separated hydrocarbon vapor and the cracking catalyst.

Abstract: The liquid cooled trap for effectively and efficiently collecting condensable vapor in a chemical vapor reaction system includes two stages. The first stage includes an entrance area to the trap that is purposely designed to be large in space and a very poor heat exchanger in order to avoid condensation and resulting solid deposits that could clog the entrance port to the trap. The second stage comprises a better heat exchanger to spread the condensation and deposits efficiently over a larger surface area and a longer flow path. The second stage is a very efficient heat exchanger to clean up and remove whatever small amount of the condensable vapor remains after the first stage of the trap. The second stage includes cooling coil tubes and cooling cones or fins to increase the overall efficiency of the trap be increasing the interior surfaces upon which the flowing condensable vapor can condense, while not significantly reducing the flow conductance of the trap.

Abstract: A moisture collector for collecting moisture from moisture containing air exiting from an air conditioning system in substantially a first flow direction is disclosed. The collector including a moisture collector housing defining a volume. An inlet extends into the volume for receiving the moisture containing air from the air conditioning system while substantially moving in the first flow direction. An outlet extends out of the volume for exhausting substantially moisture free air. A device for redirecting the moisture containing air is positioned within the volume and upstream of the outlet. At the device, moisture is removed from the moisture containing air for forming the substantially moisture free air. An air passageway is defined in the volume for directing the substantially moisture free air from the device for redirecting toward the outlet along with the moisture. A volume for collecting the moisture is provided.

Abstract: An integrated powder collection system for paint spray booths is provided for paint spray booths having a floor through which overspray and air are exhausted. The powder collection system includes at least two sloped surfaces disposed beneath the floor for defining at least one longitudinal slot therebetween. At least one longitudinal air slide is disposed beneath the at least one slot, and a pulsed vacuum source is connected to a filter cassette which is disposed beneath the floor and laterally to a side of a space defined vertically below the at least one longitudinal slot.

Abstract: An air/liquid separator is provided in a hollow, preferably transparent, removable lid on a recovery tank of a wet pickup suction cleaner. The lid has a wall therein dividing the lid into an inlet/separating chamber and an exit chamber. Liquid and dirt entrained working air enters the inlet chamber and flows horizontally across the inlet chamber over a plurality of discharge openings passing through the lid bottom plate, such that the stream of dirty liquid and air is redirected downward through the discharge openings into the recovery tank. The plurality of discharge openings in the lid bottom plate are arranged generally progressively along the stream of liquid and air entering and flowing across the inlet chamber. The discharge openings preferably increase in size moving downstream in the inlet chamber, i.e. away from the entry into the inlet chamber. The exit chamber fluidly communicates with the interior of the recovery tank through an exit opening passing through the lid bottom plate.

Abstract: A vacuum receiver for use in a pneumatic vacuum conveying system having a lid which gas-tightly closes a particle storage vessel. The lid has two apertures therein allowing a gas-particle stream to enter the interior of the vessel and a gas stream to exit the vessel. An upstanding hollow inlet housing is gas-tightly secured on an exterior surface of the lid communicating with one of the apertures. An inlet port is provided in one side of the inlet housing. The gas-particle stream enters the inlet port with sufficient velocity so that the particles strike the inlet housing opposite the inlet port to decelerate the particles. The particles fall through the one aperture and are stored in the vessel. The gas stream also enters the vessel through the one aperture and exits through the other aperture into an upstanding hollow outlet housing. The gas stream exits the outlet housing via an outlet port in the outlet housing.

Abstract: Described is a mist collector arrangement for gas washers etc. having in gas flow direction a downstream and an upstream mist collector layer. The profiles of the successively arranged rows of the downstream and upstream mist collector layers are positioned oppositely with respect to one another in gas flow direction. In this manner an improved cleaning effect is obtained when periodically rinsing the mist collectors.

Abstract: The present invention provides an oil diffuser in the suction line of a compressor. The oil diffuser provides an increased cross sectional area whereby the flow velocity is decreased and further provides non-aligned entering and discharge lines whereby inertial forces and gravitational forces acting on oil flowing into the diffuser tends to move the oil away from the circuitous path necessary for entering into the discharge line. The resulting separated oil can enter the discharge line via a small hole in the tube which only permits metered mounts of oil to be supplied to the suction of the compressor.

Abstract: A collection apparatus for collecting oil or other liquids forcibly removed from a dirty item by directed air pressure includes a generally cubical metal receptacle having a wooden cover. The dirty item is placed in a duct-like construction in a front side of the apparatus and a source of air pressure is used to remove oil or other liquids from the item, thereby producing mist. This mist is directed into the apparatus and travels to a far side of the apparatus, where it strikes a deflector. The deflector directs the mist to either of two sides of the apparatus. A suction unit, located in a bottom side of the apparatus, pulls the mist downward through a filter and finally into a collecting container.

Abstract: Disclosed is a gas conditioner and a method for treating crude, relatively impure gases produced from a gasification process to yield a relatively clean, tar-free producer gas having an energy value of about 1200 to 1500 Kcal/m.sup.3. The gas conditioner comprises a reaction chamber for retaining a fuel supply and containing a cracking reaction. An upper portion of the reaction chamber includes an internal reaction housing which provides a primary reaction zone. The gas conditioner also includes a grate structure for filtering producer gas prior to its exit from the conditioner.

Abstract: An insert device for smoothing air flow from air filters to carburetors. The device is suitable for turning an air stream from an intake air passageway, which is directed inwardly along a plane from a periphery towards a center to a fuel/air mixing chamber having an annular downwardly flowing mixing passageway with a longitudinal axis at the center. The insert device includes a first end adapted to be operably located concentrically with the annular fuel/air passageway, and a second end opposite the first end. The first and second ends have a central axis extending therebetween. The second end has a center and an upper wall extending outwardly therefrom. A peripheral wall of diminishing outside diameter begins at a point spaced outwardly near the center of the second end and extends smoothly to a point of minimum diameter. From the point of minimum diameter, concave shaped subwalls of slightly increasing size extend downward to the first end.

Abstract: A dissipator for percolating a mixture of flue gases and powdered lime through a body of water to remove SO.sub.2 from the flue gases includes an elongate tubular body having first and second ends. The first end of the tubular body has an inlet through which the flue gases and lime mixture is introduced into the dissipator. The second end of the tubular body is generally closed. There are a plurality of perforations in the wall of the tubular body through which the mixture of lime and flue gases can escape from the dissipator. A plurality of disrupters spaced longitudinally inside the elongate tubular body facilitate the mixing and reaction of the lime and the flue gases. Each disrupter comprises a plate with a plurality of baffles mounted on the upper thereof to facilitate the mixing of the flue gases and powdered lime mixture delivered into the dissipator.

Abstract: An air filter for an internal combustion engine has a housing with an interior chamber. The housing has housing walls at least one of which is in the form of a filter element. One of the housing walls has a suction opening for connecting the air filter to a suction channel of the combustion engine, wherein combustion air flows through the filter element into the interior chamber and from the interior chamber through the suction opening into the combustion engine. Air flow resistance elements are arranged in the interior chamber upstream of the suction opening. The air flow resistance elements are arranged in a first and a second row. The first and second rows are spaced apart from one another in the direction of flow of the combustion air. The air flow resistance elements of the first row of the second row are spaced laterally from one another to form gaps therebetween. The air flow resistance elements of the first row are positioned so as to be substantially aligned with the gaps of the second row.

Abstract: A system and method of use for providing nearly one-hundred (100%) percent of volatile component(s) present in a liquid solution as a gaseous phase volatile component(s) sample to a sample analysis system, at relatively sequentially constant buffered pressure and flow rate, is disclosed. The present invention also provides for quick, immediate and active removal of a remaining liquid solution mixture entered thereto to reduce carry-over contamination. The present invention is particularly well suited for use with flame and plasma based sample analysis systems and its use serves to greatly increase achievable stability of their operation, and sensitivity to volatile component(s) such as, As, Se, Sb, Sn, Hg, B and Te.

Abstract: A virtual impactor that can remove essentially all of the particles from an airstream is disclosed. Also disclosed are a method of separating particles from the airstream using this virtual impactor, a method of concentrating the particulate matter in an airstream, and the concentrated airstream.

Abstract: An air filter includes an inlet for compressed air, a prefiltration chamber into which air from the inlet passes, a porous filter through which air from the prefiltration chamber passes to strain particular matter from the air, a plurality of venturis through which air from the porous filter passes, an expansion chamber in which air from the venturis expands and cools so that droplets of oil and water precipitate and accumulate at the bottom of the expansion chamber, and an outlet for air from the expansion chamber.

Abstract: A pollution control system and method in which hot flue gas is cooled to saturation in a quencher and passed through a condenser absorber assembly to further cool the saturated gases while growing small particles as the particles act as nuclei for the condensation of water vapor thereon. The grown particles are carried through an aperture having a low pressure drop throat so that high efficiency particle collection is accomplished. At its outlet, the aperture produces a concentration of the gases and water droplets. A dome shaped gas reverser, having its concave surface directed upstream, is located spaced apart from the aperture and in substantial alignment with the outlet of the aperture. The gas reverser receives the gas stream as it exits the aperture, mixing and diffusing the gas and its constituents as they change direction to spill out over the lip of the gas reverser.

Abstract: A device for intercepting and collecting fats and/or moisture dispersed in an ascending gaseous carrier has a set of trough-shaped collecting elements which alternate with and whose marginal portions are overlapped by inverted trough-shaped intercepting elements. The lowermost sections of the collecting elements form part of shallow receptacles for collected fats and/or moisture, and such receptacles extend between end walls which are of one piece with the ends of main portions of the collecting elements. Such collecting elements can be produced by deep drawing suitably configurated blanks of sheet metal. The end walls and the marginal portions of the collecting elements have projections extending through slots in plate-like holders for the collecting elements.

Abstract: Apparatus for separating particulate solids from a process gas stream which includes one or more primary separation chambers, preferably ballistic separation chambers, for removing a major portion of the solids entrained in the gas stream. One or more secondary separator chambers containing multi-cyclones are employed for removing substantially all of the remaining solids from the gas discharged from the primary separator chamber. The ballistic separation chamber has an inlet portion and a larger diameter outlet portion, and it may have an arcuate shape to aid in the separation.

Abstract: A baffle means (2) is provided at a dip pipe (1) which latter projects into the separating chamber of a facility for the separation of substance mixtures of a liquid or gaseous medium and a liquid or solid substance under the effect of centrifugal forces, the medium being discharged from the facility through this dip pipe. The baffle means (2) includes at least one baffle (3) having the shape of the shell of a truncated cone, the axis of curvature (4) of which extends in parallel to the longitudinal axis (5) of the dip pipe (1) and is offset with respect to this axis (5). By the baffle means (2), the medium is guided into the dip pipe (1) with simultaneous reconversion of the flow energy into pressure energy, there being imparted to the medium an acceleration oriented axially in the flow-off direction of the medium and an acceleration.

Abstract: Oil separator assembly for removing and collecting oil entrained in a gas includes a vessel having a cavity with a reservoir formed therein; an inlet pipe extending into the vessel; an inlet diffuser securely attached to the inlet pipe for initially separating the entrained oil from the refrigerant gas; and independent oil and gas outlet ports extending from the vessel for emitting the separated oil and ejecting the substantially oil-free refrigerant gas, respectively. The inlet diffuser includes a conical-shaped hollow member having an open base, a closed end, and a converging side wall extending from the open base to the closed end. Refrigerant gas and entrained oil, received through the open base, gradually impacts on the inner surface of the side wall in a manner sufficient to promote coalescence of the oil. The coalesced oil is directed across the inner surface of the side wall transversely away from the refrigerant gas.

Abstract: A papermaking deaeration apparatus including a receiving chamber, and a plurality of cleaning and deaeration wings extending therefrom. A baffle is provided in the chamber of the receiver proximate the opening of each wing which communicates deaerated paper stock into the receiver chamber. The baffles redirect downrushing deaerated paper stock such that it is dispensed in a "knifing shape" into the pool of paper stock contained in the chamber of the receiver. Hence, standing waves and splashing in the pool of paper stock in the receiver is reduced. The static pressure head created by the pool of paper stock is more uniform such that fluctuations in the static head are reduced. Mechanical vibrations which can reach the paper machine headbox and the primary cleaner supply pump are reduced such as the quality, consistency and caliper of the paper manufactured by the headbox is improved.

Abstract: There is disclosed a scroll-type machine particularly suited for use as a refrigeration compressor and incorporating an improved baffle arrangement to provide a directed suction inlet as well as to separate oil entrained in the returning refrigerant and return same to the lubricant sump in the lower portion of the shell.

Abstract: A baffle/settling chamber removes solid particulates from the exhaust of a semiconductor deposition equipment while reducing pressure fluctuation in the exhaust to provide a more uniform deposition of chemicals. A container having an inlet baffle plate, an outlet baffle plate and three settling plates disposed there between are disposed in a chamber and reside serially in the exhaust flow.

Abstract: A drop leg has a housing provided with top and bottom ends. The top end has an inlet and an outlet and the bottom end has a drain. An impingement plate supported within the housing is spaced from the top end to establish a separating chamber and to be directly contracted by the air stream through the inlet. The upper surface of the impingement plate is downwardly and inwardly inclined and has a central drain. The air stream striking the inclined surfaces rebounds towards the outlet. When vapors are to be removed, the drop leg is provided with a bulkhead below the impingement plate and is sealed to the housing and establishes with the impingement plate an intermediate chamber and with the bottom end a lower chamber for contaminants separated from the air stream.

Abstract: A drop leg has a housing provided with top and bottom ends. The top end has an inlet and an outlet and the bottom end has a drain. An impingement plate supported within the housing is spaced from the top end to establish a separating chamber and to be directly contacted by the air stream through the inlet. The upper surface of the impingement plate is downwardly and inwardly inclined and has a central drain. The air stream striking the inclined surfaces rebounds towards the outlet. When vapors are also present, the drop leg is provided with a bulkhead which is sealed to the housing and establishes with the impingement plate an upper chamber and with the bottom end a settling chamber for contaminants separated from the air stream.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for ensuring that a device--such as a gas turbine--that utilizes gases and will be damaged by particles in the gases greater than the predetermined size, will not be subjected to such particles. A filter, or the like removes particles from the gases, and is connected to the gas utilization device, with a particle concentrating device disposed between the particle remover and turbine. A particle detector is associated with the particle concentrator for detecting an undesirable level of particles above the predetermined size, and an alarm or other device is activated by the particle detecting means in response to an aberrant condition. The particle concentrator comprises a first conduit extending to a branch section, and branching to a second conduit and a third conduit. The second conduit, which may be blind, is a substantial continuation of the first conduit, while the third conduit makes an angle (e.g. about 90.degree.