摘要:
A cyclonic fluid separator for separating condensable, liquid and/or solid components from a fluid mixture comprises an upstream fluid inlet section in which the fluid mixture is accelerated to a supersonic velocity to expand and cool the fluid mixture such that one or more condensable fluid components are liquefied and/or solidified, a downstream separation section in which condensables depleted and condensables enriched fluid fractions are separated and fed into separate outlets, and a midstream vortex generation section which comprises a plurality of tilted wings of which the wing tips (5A,5B)are located at relatively large mutual spacings (D) and at a small spacing (S
摘要:
A cyclonic fluid separator for separating one or more condensable components, such as water, and/or solids, such as smoke or sand particles, from a fluid mixture has a tubular housing (1) having a fluid inlet section in which the fluid mixture is accelerated to a supersonic velocity and thereby expanded and cooled such that condensable components condense and/or solidify, one or more wings (9) for inducing the fluid mixture to swirl within a central section (8) of the tubular housing, a fluid separation section in which a tubular vortex finder (2) is movably arranged, a condensables enriched fluid outlet (18) which is connected to an annular space surrounding the tapered tubular vortex finder (2) and a condensables depleted fluid outlet (16) which is connected to the interior of the tapered tubular vortex finder (2). The vortex finder may be movable in a radial and/or longitudinal direction (4,5) within the housing to align the entrance (14) of the vortex finder with the centre of rotation (13) of the swirling fluid, which centre of rotation may be unaligned to and/6r spiral about the central axis (3) of the tubular housing as a result of the radial fluid displacement by the wing(s) (9) .
摘要:
A cyclonic fluid separator of the type comprising a tubular throat portion (4) in which a fluid mixture is accelerated to a subsonic or supersonic speed and thereby expanded and cooled down so that condensable components condense and/or solidify and then swirl into a diverging fluid outlet section (5) that comprises an aliter secondary outlet (6) for condensables enriched fluid components and an inner primary outlet (7) For condensables depleted fluid components comprises swirl imparting vanes (2) that protrude tram a central body (1) that extends through at least part of an inlet section of the separator, wherein the central body (1) has, at a location upstream of the throat portion (4), a larger aliter width (2Ro max) than the smallest inner width (2Rn min) of the throat portion (4).
摘要:
A nozzle of converging-diverging shape for creating mist flow at supersonic velocity comprising: a throat having a characteristic diameter D*; an inlet having a characteristic diameter D1, positioned a distance L1 upstream of the nozzle throat; and an outlet having a characteristic diameter D2, positioned a distance L2 downstream of the nozzle throat, wherein the ratio of L2/(D2-D*) is larger than 4, but smaller than 250; an inertia separator based thereon, and a method for supersonic separation of one or more components of a predominantly gaseous stream.
摘要:
A method of removing a selected gaseous component from a stream of fluid containing a plurality of gaseous components is provided. The stream is induced to flow at supersonic velocity through a conduit so as to decrease the temperature of the fluid to below a selected temperature at which one of condensation and solidification of the selected component occurs thereby forming particles of the selected component, the conduit being provided with swirl imparting means to impart a swirling motion to the stream of fluid thereby inducing the particles to flow to a radially outer section of a collecting zone in the stream. A shock wave is created in the stream so as to decrease the axial velocity of the fluid to subsonic velocity, and the particles are extracted into an outlet stream from said radially outer section of the collecting zone, wherein the shock wave is created downstream the swirl imparting means and upstream the collecting zone.
摘要:
Separation of liquid and/or solid components from a multiphase fluid stream passing through a supersonic fluid separator is enhanced by injecting a surface active agent into the fluid stream passing through the separator. Preferably the spray is injected via an injection tube that has a positive or negative electrical potential, whereas one of the walls of the separator housing has an opposite electrical potential, so that the injected spray and any liquid droplets and/or particles formed around the injected nuclei are induced to flow towards said electrically loaded wall.