Water separator

Claim 2

Apparatus for separating and removing liquid from a flowing stream of gaseous fluid, including a generally closed cylindrical housing having a liqUid outlet at each end thereof, laterally disposing inlet means intermediate the ends of the housing for admitting the flowing stream of gaseous fluid thereto, said inlet means disposing to introduce the flowing stream tangentially of the internal wall of the housing, said internal wall forming a conical separation chamber between said inlet means and one end of the housing, the apex of said separation chamber being open and forming the liquid outlet at said one end of the housing, a gas outlet tube having an inner end terminating within said housing opposite the liquid outlet in said one end and extending at its other end to and through the other end of said housing, said inlet means disposing in substantially bisecting relation to the base end of said separation chamber whereby a part of the inflowing stream of gaseous fluid enters into said separation chamber for helical flow therethrough with liquid separating therefrom and discharging through the liquid outlet in the apex of said chamber while the gas in said part establishes a flow path in a reverse direction to and through the inner end of said gas outlet tube, means including a cylindrical baffle intermediate said internal wall and said gas outlet tube for directing the remaining part of the stream of gaseous fluid circuitously to the inlet end of said gas outlet tube, and means for separating out liquid in said remaining part and discharging it toward the said other end of said housing for exit through the liquid outlet located therein.

Claim 3

Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said separation chamber and said gas outlet tube are in longitudinally spaced, aligned relation in the axis of said housing, the liquid outlet in said other end of the housing being offset from said axis.

Claim 4

Apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the means for separating out liquid in said remaining part of the flowing stream includes a baffle disposing perpendicularly of the housing axis in surrounding sealed relation to said gas outlet tube and forming with said other end of the housing a liquid collection chamber with which the liquid outlet at said other end of the housing communicates, said last named means further including a cylindrical baffle concentric to the housing axis defining with said housing an outer annular chamber and with said gas outlet tube an inner annular chamber, the latter communicating with the inner end of said gas outlet tube, said cylindrical baffle providing means intercommunicating said annular chambers at a location relatively remote from the inner end of said gas outlet tube, and said perpendicularly disposing baffle providing means communicating the outer annular chamber with said liquid collection chamber.

Claim 5

Apparatus according to claim 3, characterized by coalescing material substantially filling said outer annular chamber.

Claim 6

Apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said cylindrical baffle terminates short of said perpendicularly disposing baffle to define an opening intercommunicating said outer and inner annular chambers and further characterized in that said perpendicularly disposing baffle has peripheral cutout portions therein communicating said outer annular chamber with said liquid collection chamber, said coalescing material extending throughout said outer annular chamber to said perpendicularly disposing baffle.

Claim 7

Apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said cylindrical baffle projects toward the said one end of said housing to a partly overlapping relation to said laterally disposing inlet, a projecting end thereof tapering toward the housing axis.

Claim 8

Apparatus for separating and removing liquid from a flowing stream of gaseous fluid, including a generally closed cylindrical housing having a liquid outlet at each end thereof, laterally disposing inlet means intermediate the ends of the housing for admitting the flowing stream of gaseous fluid thereto, said inlet means disposing to introduce the flowing stream tangentially of the internal wall of the housing, said internal wall formiNg a conical separation chamber between said inlet means and said one end of the housing, the apex of said separation chamber being open and forming the liquid outlet at said one end of the housing, a gas outlet tube having an inner end terminating within said housing opposite the liquid outlet in said one end and extending at an outer end to and through the other end of said housing, said inlet means disposing in such relation to the base end of said separation chamber whereby a part of the inflowing stream of gaseous fluid enters into said separation chamber for helical flow therethrough with liquid separating therefrom and discharging through the liquid outlet in the apex of said chamber while the gas in said part establishes a flow path in a reverse direction to and through the inner end of said gas outlet tube, another tube positioned intermediate said gas outlet tube and said internal wall and defining therewith respective inner and outer annular chambers, a baffle disposing perpendicularly of the housing axis in surrounding sealed relation to said gas outlet tube longitudinally spaced from the inner end thereof and forming with the other end of the housing a liquid collection chamber with which the liquid outlet at said other end of the housing communicates, means providing for direct substantially straight line flow from said outer annular chamber past said baffle and into said collection chamber, other means providing for substantially right angle flow out of said outer annular chamber adjacent said baffle into said inner annular chamber, and coalescing material substantially filling said outer annular chamber, a part of the inflowing stream of gaseous fluid which does not enter into said separation chamber flowing oppositely to enter and move through said outer annular chamber toward said baffle, moisture particles in the stream agglomerating in said coalescing material as relatively large droplets and being blown past said baffle into said collection chamber and gas in the stream turning at right angles into said inner annular chamber and flowing reversely therethrough to the inner end of said gas outlet tube.

Claim 9

Apparatus for separating and removing liquid from a flowing stream of gaseous fluid, including a generally closed cylindrical housing having a liquid outlet at each end thereof, laterally disposing inlet means intermediate the ends of the housing for admitting the flowing stream of gaseous fluid thereto, said inlet means disposing to introduce the flowing stream tangentially of the internal wall of the housing, said internal wall formiNg a conical separation chamber between said inlet means and said one end of the housing, the apex of said separation chamber being open and forming the liquid outlet at said one end of the housing, a gas outlet tube having an inner end terminating within said housing opposite the liquid outlet in said one end and extending at an outer end to and through the other end of said housing, said inlet means disposing in such relation to the base end of said separation chamber whereby a part of the inflowing stream of gaseous fluid enters into said separation chamber for helical flow therethrough with liquid separating therefrom and discharging through the liquid outlet in the apex of said chamber while the gas in said part establishes a flow path in a reverse direction to and through the inner end of said gas outlet tube, another tube positioned intermediate said gas outlet tube and said internal wall and defining therewith respective inner and outer annular chambers, a baffle disposing perpendicularly of the housing axis in surrounding sealed relation to said gas outlet tube longitudinally spaced from the inner end thereof and forming with the other end of the housing a liquid collection chamber with which the liquid outlet at said other end of the housing communicates, means providing for direct substantially straight line flow from said outer annular chamber past said baffle and into said collection chamber, other means providing for substantially right angle flow out of said outer annular chamber adjacent said baffle into said inner annular chamber, and coalescing material substantially filling said outer annular chamber, a part of the inflowing stream of gaseous fluid which does not enter into said separation chamber flowing oppositely to enter and move through said outer annular chamber toward said baffle, moisture particles in the stream agglomerating in said coalescing material as relatively large droplets and being blown past said baffle into said collection chamber and gas in the stream turning at right angles into said inner annular chamber and flowing reversely therethrough to the inner end of said gas outlet tube.

Claim 10

Apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said other tube disposes in concentric surrounding relation to said gas outlet tube and projects relatively thereto beyond the inner end of said gas outlet tube substantially to said laterally disposing inlet, a projecting end of said other tube tapering toward the housing axis to facilitate entrance of a part of the inflowing stream of gaseous fluid into said outer annular chamber.