초록

A single vessel with no moving parts is constructed to perform the functions of coalescing, vacuum dehydration, and thin film evaporation.

대표청구항 ▼

A device for separating a liquid into its parts, comprising: an enclosed, hollow vessel including a wall; a stationary, porous medium suspended in the vessel; a port part-way up the vessel; a spiral baffle along the wall of said vessel with a small gap between said spiral baffle and the wall to keep

A device for separating a liquid into its parts, comprising: an enclosed, hollow vessel including a wall; a stationary, porous medium suspended in the vessel; a port part-way up the vessel; a spiral baffle along the wall of said vessel with a small gap between said spiral baffle and the wall to keep fluid in a thin film along the wall; a top opening near the top of the vessel, said top opening being in fluid communication with said porous medium, such that any liquid entering the vessel through the part-way up port must pass through said porous medium in order to leave the vessel through said top opening; a bottom opening near the bottom of the vessel; and an injection system for injecting fluid near the top of said vessel at point along the wall of said vessel in a substantially horizontal direction tangent to the wall of said vessel; said device alternately functioning as a continuous coalescer, such that a liquid-liquid mixture entering through the part-way up port will be separated by the porous medium, with the light liquid leaving through the top opening and the heavy liquid leaving through the bottom opening; and as a continuous evaporator.