Chemistry: electrical and wave energy – Apparatus – Apparatus for electrical
Patent
1994-05-03
1997-07-08
Gorgos, Kathryn
Chemistry: electrical and wave energy
Apparatus
Apparatus for electrical
204672, 204674, B03C 502, B01D 3506
Patent
active
056457049
ABSTRACT:
The invention comprises a fluid treatment of electrostatic flocculation of minute particles in a fluid such as oil. The device has a electrostatic chamber which has a plurality of perforated metal screens aligned along a path in the chamber. Means are provided to electrically charge the screens in an alternating polarity along the path with the charge creating a magnetic field on the screens for flocculation of the minute particles. The chamber has inlet ports and outlet ports spaced from one another in the chamber. The plurality of screens have a configuration of a zig zag shape which tends to guide the fluid being received into the chamber from the inlet ports along a reflective path for said minute particles in said fluid to reflect off of said screens of alternating polarity in several directions to said outlet ports for substantially continuous reflection resulting in substantially continuous flocculation of said minute particles along the path of several directions with said path of several directions being substantially longer than the straight line path from the inlet ports to the outlet ports for increased flocculation of said particles while in said chamber with said flocculation acting to enlarge the size of said particles. Filters are provided separate from the chamber for filtering said particles after flocculation with enlargement of said particles facilitating filtration.
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Gorgos Kathryn
Kleve Robert E.
Leader William T.
Sandler Eugene
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