Centrifugal separator having heat transfer means

Claim 1

Apparatus for separating liquid and/or solid particles suspended in a gaseous and/or vaporous media stream by means of centrifugal force having a curved channel defined by a wall and through which the media stream flows and having a turbulence chamber defined by a wall and connected to the concave side of the curved channel and accommodating a partial stream of the media stream, and having at least one discharge opening for the particles separated from the partial stream and at least one exhaust opening for the particle-free fraction of the partial stream, with at least one of the walls of the curved channel and the turbulence chamber being provided with a cavity for the passage of a heat or cooling transfer medium and said apparatus embodies a plurality of separator devices arranged in staggered relationship to each other with each comprising a curved channel and a turbulence chamber, the improvement in that at least one section of the wall of a turbulence chamber and one section of the interior wall of said channel, simultaneously constitutes at least one section of the exterior wall of the channel of an adjacent separator device, and defines common wall sections of double-walled construction.