Mass separator
Abstract
Abstract A fluid mixture is separated into constituents having the same physical and/or chemical nature which were intimately mixed in the mixture, in pipes where wave phenomena occur and into which pulses of the mixture are alternately directed, a mixture enriched with the heavy constituent being collected at the inlet of the pulsating pipes and a mixture enriched with the light constituent being collected at the outlet. A conduit for supplying a continuous flow of the fluid mixture to be separated is connected to pipes disposed in extension of the supply conduit, means being provided for converting the continuous supply flow into fluid pulses which are introduced into the pipes where they produce pulsatory phenomena; the inlet zone of these pipes is connected to a chamber for sampling the heavy constituent while their output zone is connected to a chamber for sampling the light constituent.
Inventors
- 👤 P Marchal
- 👤 J Simonnet
- 👤 G Regnier
- 👤 J Verrien
Bibliographic Details
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