Gas separation – With guide means effecting removal of constituent layer out...
Reexamination Certificate
2011-04-19
2011-04-19
Smith, Duane (Department: 1797)
Gas separation
With guide means effecting removal of constituent layer out...
C055S477000, C055S482000, C055S485000, C055S423000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07927394
ABSTRACT:
Collection apparatus are installed in a horizontal separator vessel to aid conventional coalescing media to remove mist and droplets from a gas flow, typically downstream from a compressor. The collection apparatus have filaments which act to wick the coalesced droplets either from the conventional coalescing media or from the sides of the vessel toward an annular channel which collects the droplets and assists in delivering the droplets, by gravity, to the bottom of horizontal vessel where they are carried to a collection area. Use of the collection apparatus permits a reduction in the size of the separator vessel and further permits vapor load factors of up to about 10 times that in a conventionally designed separator vessel.
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MacKenzie Douglas
Toews Arnold
Gas Liquids Engineering Ltd.
Goodwin Sean W.
Smith Duane
Thompson Linda M.
Wu Ives
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