Method and apparatus for separating oil from a mixture of oil and a gaseous fluid

Claim 1

The method of separating oil from a gaseous fluid containing oil therein comprising passing the fluid through a first filtering medium of medium packed fibrilated polypropylene, thereafter passing the thus filtered gaseous fluid to a second filtering medium of a densely packed fibrilated polypropylene, subjecting the gaseous fluid to a filtering medium of a high porosity cotton sheeting treated with fluorocarbon to electrostatically repel oil entrained in the gaseous fluid between said first and second filtering mediums, removing the thus filtered gaseous fluid exiting from said second filtering medium and cotton sheeting and collecting the oil by gravity flow from said second filtering medium.