Abstract: A new baffle device for a distiller has a tubular body and a baffle member fixed with respect to such body. The baffle member has a plurality of apertures for stripping dissolved solids from steam passing through the member. The distiller raw water vessel has a steam discharge nozzle and the baffle device extends part way into and is in telescoped engagement with the nozzle. The device is held in place by a retention ring and both the ring and the device are quickly removable from the raw water vessel for easy cleaning of the device and the vessel. The distiller has a condensing platform with a steam receiving port built into it. When the raw water vessel is on the platform in the water-boiling position, the baffle device extends between the nozzle and the port and forms a conduit for steam to flow to the condensing coil.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process and a device for eliminating particles from a stream of fluid, having a channel for turbulent flow of the fluid and a series of objects placed along the channel.

Abstract: An air separator for liquid containing gas bubbles having an essentially cylinder-shaped chamber through which liquid, such as blood, flows essentially in helical flow paths, with the result that air bubbles are driven in a radial direction relative to the longitudinal axis of the chamber because of pressure differences produced by centrifugal forces. The inlet and outlet of the chamber of the air separator are coaxial relative to each other in the longitudinal axis of the chamber. The air separator also includes a flow-deflection component or influx distributor, which includes a rotation-symmetrical base body element whose outer surface faces inflowing liquid as a first deflection surface, which is geometrically defined by rotation of a curve section about the longitudinal axis of the chamber.

Abstract: A micro-machined virtual impactor device to permit the separation, collection and concentration of a significant portion of environmental particulates having a diameter of less than ten microns and its method of operation. The device includes a plurality of projections, each having a virtual impact surface that defines an aperture in a stagnant zone of fluid flow. A major portion of the particulate material is concentrated into a minor portion of the fluid which is processed through the aperture, where it is collected for subsequent analysis.

Abstract: A separation process comprises passing a gas or vapor stream contaminated with an undesired substance or contaminant downwardly through a plurality of spiral separating media such that the direction of movement of the gas or vapor stream is transversely the longitudinal axes of at least some of the spiral separating media. The undesired substance or contaminant is allowed to separate from the gas or vapor as it passes through the bed, and purified gas or vapor is withdrawn from the bed.

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: A separation process comprises passing a gas or vapor stream contaminated with an undesired substance or contaminant downwardly through a bed of curled separating media. The undesired substance or contaminant is allowed to separate from the gas or vapor as it passes through the bed. Purified gas or vapor is withdrawn from the bed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for heat transfer from hot particulate laden gas to a coolant fluid within a heat transfer tube. The apparatus is comprised of layers of vertically aligned strips which are offset at an angle to adjacent layers and form channels which extend through the layers. Heat transfer tubes are located in the channels formed by the vertically aligned strips. The hot particulate laden gas introduced into the apparatus is divided into a number of streams moving in two different directions by the layers of vertically aligned strips. The streams of gas cross each other spatially and thus generate vortices. The vortices force the particles away from the heat transfer tube in the center of the channel and to precipitate on the vertically aligned strips where they fall due to gravitational forces or are removed by a shaking apparatus. Heat is then drawn from the resulting substantially particulate free gas.

Abstract: Apparatus for drying flowing gas includes a generally cylindrical vessel having a gas inlet and a gas outlet, two perforated plates of different metals in contact with each other transverse the interior of the vessel, and a third perforated plate downstream from the two mutually contacting plates.

Abstract: An air intake system for a cab and engine of a vehicle is shown and described. In a preferred embodiment, dry, ambient air is provided to the cab and engine through a duct that is mounted to an inner surface of a vehicle hood such that the hood forms a top surface of the duct. The duct is relatively narrow across the width of the hood and flares into an air chamber on either side of the hood. An air inlet opening is provided on both sides of the hood such that outside air is drawn into the air chambers. The velocity of the air drops as it passes into and through the air chambers, causing the moisture in the air to separate and drain from the air chambers through an evacuator valve provided in the bottom surface of each chamber. Two openings are provided in the bottom surface of the duct. One opening sealingly engages an opening in the engine air cleaner and the second opening sealingly engages a cab air intake duct, when the hood is in a closed position.

Abstract: A device for separating particulate matter from a fluid in which such particles are dispersed by causing the fluid to flow longitudinally through a conduit of uniform cross-section and in which a plurality of elements are disposed, with the first of the elements being disposed at an input end of the conduit and sealed against the inner wall thereof. The fluid is caused to flow through the conduit at a velocity such that the particles are fluid-borne. The remainder of the elements are offset laterally inward of the conduit wall by a distance which increases as a function of each element's numerical position after the first element and they are equally spaced apart in a longitudinal direction to provide a gap between successive pairs thereof. Each element, except for an outtake orifice, includes an inner surface disposed at an oblique angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the conduit.

Abstract: Close coupled momentum separator with integral removable source volume for particle beam liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry is provided. The inventive PB LC/MS system comprises a momentum separator wherein the skimmers are designed to accommodate the particle beam conical dispersion so as to minimize the number of particles lost in the separator. In addition, the exit of the momentum separator is closely coupled to the entrance of the MS source volume. The PB LC/MS system demonstrates improved linearity in signal and enhanced sensitivity.

Abstract: In the present invention separation is effected by means of a convergent-divergent nozzle, in which the divergent portion is convex. A supersonic flow of a gas-droplets mixture is introduced into the convergent-divergent nozzle and at the throat thereof a normal shock wave occurs and results to an abrupt change in the speed and direction of gas flow, which becomes subsonic and follows the geometry of the convex divergent portion. The droplets are inertially separated from the gas stream and two flow zones emerge, one zone free from droplets and one enriched with droplets, these two zones being subsequently separated by a separator plate. Henceforth, a conventional subsonic separator is used to receive the liquid formed by the separated droplets, whereas the zones of gas flow being free from droplets converge to be subsequently used in any desired manner.

Abstract: A method for cleaning a cyclone which separates excess powder aspirated from a powder coating cabin, and cyclones for carrying out this cleaning method are created, with cleaning air being aspirated during the cleaning operation from the lower end of the cyclone via the cyclone interior, the immersion tube and the clean gas channel, and at least the outer surface of the immersion tube and the cyclone interior facing surface of the bottom of the clean gas channel is cleansed by means of compressed air blasts which exit from nozzles and directly impact these surfaces.

Abstract: A liquid mist for being conveyed by a carrier gas stream is produced from a liquid by atomizing the liquid into the carrier gas stream in the form of a collection of droplets, deflecting the collection of droplets in the carrier gas stream at a deflection region, separating droplets in the collection of droplets which exceed a maximum size from the carrier gas stream, collecting at least a part of the separated droplets on at least one heatable contact surface, and at least partially vaporizing them into the carrier gas stream.

Abstract: A collection device (10) for gaseous emissions which comprises a collector body (20) having a hollow interior (33) and an inner wall (22) shaped to conform to a portion of the outer periphery of the open top (14) of a material supply container (12). The inner wall is formed with a number of inlet openings (40, 42) communicating with the collector body interior which are spaced from one another in a direction from one end of the collector body to the other. A deflector member or strake (46) is mounted to the inner wall of the collector body in the areas between adjacent inlet openings therein, and lips are mounted at the top (34) and bottom (35) of the collector body which extends outwardly therefrom substantially perpendicular to the inner wall of the collector body.