ES280887A1 - Improvements in improved axial flow vapor-liquid separator - Google Patents

Abstract

Improvements in the axial flow liquid and steam separators and dryers, characterized by comprising an elongated vertical tube provided axially at one end with a vapor and liquid mixture inlet opening and an axial outlet opening at the other end, means adjacent said inlet opening to communicate a sufficient rotary movement to a mixture of vapor and liquid to establish within said vertical tube a vertex of vapor surrounded by a vertex of liquid, a first annular liquid removal means surrounding the edge outlet of said vertical tube u that is separated from it, forming between them a first annular outlet passage inverter of the liquid flow to receive said vertex and drive it axially 180º around said outlet edge, a second annular means of elimination of liquid that surrounds said first annular medium, and that is separated from it, and that forms between them a second inverted annular passage r of the liquid flow to receive the liquid splashes from the boundary layer to receive the splashes axially 180º around said first annular means, said second annular means having a central vertex outlet opening for steam, a dryer body provided with an upper opening for the outlet of dry steam and communicating, in relation to the reception of the steam vertex, with said outlet opening for the vapor vertex, a cylindrical layer of fluid-permeable contact material arranged on the inner wall of said body, a conical layer of fluid-permeable contact material arranged with its apex down inside and separated from said cylindrical layer and attached at its upper edge to the upper edge of said body, and means for removing from each of said fluid-permeable layers the liquid separated by them from said vapor. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)