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Rotating parallel disks create radial cyclonic vortices between them. The axes of these vortices communicate with the bore of a hollow shaft, and a vacuum is drawn in the shaft bore by the action of a centrifugal pump. Particles, mist, and heavy vapors such as mercury, are separated out of a gas str

Rotating parallel disks create radial cyclonic vortices between them. The axes of these vortices communicate with the bore of a hollow shaft, and a vacuum is drawn in the shaft bore by the action of a centrifugal pump. Particles, mist, and heavy vapors such as mercury, are separated out of a gas stream by the radial vortices, which cause whatever is relatively heavy in the vortex to migrate away from the vortex axis and then contact the rotating disks, whereby they are expelled from the space between the disks. Application to mist elimination for steam is discussed, as are application to cyclonic cracking of hydrocarbons and separation of gaseous waste from intra-lattice fluid.

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Apparatus for separation of a gaseous fluid mixture, the apparatus comprising the combination of: (a) means for containing the gaseous fluid mixture, said containing means comprising an inlet for gaseous fluid mixture, (b) spaced-apart surfaces defining between them an afferent mesial passage said s

Apparatus for separation of a gaseous fluid mixture, the apparatus comprising the combination of: (a) means for containing the gaseous fluid mixture, said containing means comprising an inlet for gaseous fluid mixture, (b) spaced-apart surfaces defining between them an afferent mesial passage said surfaces being rotatable with respect to each other, (c) means for rotating said rotatable surfaces in opposite directions about a common axis of rotation, (d) a shaft defining within it a bore, the bore fluidly communicating with the afferent mesial passage, and (e) means for effecting effluent flow from the afferent mesial passage to the bore and then out of the bore through a discharge port, the combined action of the rotating surfaces and said effluent flow effecting means creating at least one radial cyclonic vortex in the gaseous fluid mixture within the afferent mesial passage, the radial cyclonic vortex having its vortex axis within the afferent mesial passage and radial to the axis of rotation; whereby gaseous fluid mixture is centrifugated in the radial cyclonic vortex and entrained particles, mist, and vapor are thereby caused to contact the rotating surfaces, the contact accelerating particles, mist, and vapor, thereby ejecting them radially outward with respect to the axis of rotation, while effluent is transported by said effluent flow effecting means along the radial cyclonic vortex axis and through the bore of the shaft.