Classifying – separating – and assorting solids – Special applications
Patent
1987-10-08
1989-08-15
Reeves, Robert B.
Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
Special applications
2091391, 209141, B07B 402
Patent
active
048571733
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and process for separating silicon seed particles from silicon dust and large, heavy silicon particles. A classifier apparatus is a vertically oriented column having an inert gas flowing upwardly therethrough. A mixture of various size particles is dispensed into the central portion of the tube such that small dust particles and product size particles are entrained in the flowing gas and heavier particles fall to a receiver at the bottom of the tube. The small dust particles are separated from the product size particles near the top of the tube by providing an enlarged cross-sectional area flow path which continues to entrain the small particles but not the product size particles. The product size particles are then captured in a receptacle near the top of the tube.
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Ethyl Corporation
Pippenger Philip M.
Reeves Robert B.
Sieberth John F.
Wacyra Edward M.
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