US3396511A - Vortex separator for solid or liquid aerosols or the like - Google Patents

Vortex separator for solid or liquid aerosols or the like Download PDF

Info

Publication number
US3396511A
US3396511A US535799A US53579966A US3396511A US 3396511 A US3396511 A US 3396511A US 535799 A US535799 A US 535799A US 53579966 A US53579966 A US 53579966A US 3396511 A US3396511 A US 3396511A
Authority
US
United States
Prior art keywords
vortex
flow
medium
vortex chamber
aerosol
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Expired - Lifetime
Application number
US535799A
Other languages
English (en)
Inventor
Fracke Aribert
Klein Heinrich
Pieper Rudolf
Weber Eduard
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
Siemens AG
Original Assignee
Siemens AG
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Application filed by Siemens AG filed Critical Siemens AG
Application granted granted Critical
Publication of US3396511A publication Critical patent/US3396511A/en
Anticipated expiration legal-status Critical
Expired - Lifetime legal-status Critical Current

Links

Images

Classifications

    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01G—CAPACITORS; CAPACITORS, RECTIFIERS, DETECTORS, SWITCHING DEVICES, LIGHT-SENSITIVE OR TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE DEVICES OF THE ELECTROLYTIC TYPE
    • H01G9/00—Electrolytic capacitors, rectifiers, detectors, switching devices, light-sensitive or temperature-sensitive devices; Processes of their manufacture
    • H01G9/004—Details
    • H01G9/08—Housing; Encapsulation
    • H01G9/10—Sealing, e.g. of lead-in wires
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B04—CENTRIFUGAL APPARATUS OR MACHINES FOR CARRYING-OUT PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES
    • B04C—APPARATUS USING FREE VORTEX FLOW, e.g. CYCLONES
    • B04C5/00—Apparatus in which the axial direction of the vortex is reversed
    • B04C5/02—Construction of inlets by which the vortex flow is generated, e.g. tangential admission, the fluid flow being forced to follow a downward path by spirally wound bulkheads, or with slightly downwardly-directed tangential admission
    • B04C5/04—Tangential inlets

Definitions

  • Method of increasing the separating action of a vortex separator for solid or liquid particles entrained in a gaseous carrier medium includes supplying particleentrained gaseous carrier medium in an axial direction and in the form of a rotational flow through an inlet located at one end of a rotationally symmetrical vortex chamber; surrounding the rotational flow with a tubularshaped vortex of a gaseous auxiliary medium coaxial with and rotating in the same rotary direction as the rotational flow; discharging the carrier medium through an outlet provided in the other end of the vortex chamber; transforming the tubular-shaped vortex at the outlet of the carrier medium into the circulatory potential flow traveling at a region adjacent the wall of the vortex chamber in a direction opposite to the axial flow direction of the carrier medium and back again at the level of the carrier medium inlet into the tubular-shaped vortex surrounding the rotation flow, so that the auxiliary medium travels in a closed circuit; removing by suction the auxiliary medium in the tubular-shaped vortex flowing
  • Apparatus for carrying out the foregoing method includes a rotationally symmetrical vortex chamber having an inlet at one end for supplying particle-entrained gaseous carrier medium in an axial direction and having an outlet at the other end thereof for discharging the carrier medium; means in the inlet creating a rotational flow in the vortex chamber; inlet means extending transversely to the axial direction for supplying a gaseous auxiliary medium to the vortex chamber in the form of a tubular-shaped vortex surrounding the rotational flow, the tubular-shaped vortex being coaxial with and rotating in the same rotary direction as the rotational flow; outlet means extending transversely to the axial direction for discharging the auxiliary medium from the vortext chamber; blower means outside the vortex chamber having its negative pressure side in communication with the auxiliary medium outlet means for removing by suction from the vortex chamber, the auxiliary medium flowing in a direction coaxial to the carrier medium flow axis; the means for supplying auxiliary medium being in communication with the positive pressure side of the blower means
  • Our invention relates to method and apparatus for increasing the separating action of a vortex separator for 3,396,51 1 Patented Aug. 13, 1968 solid or liquid particles from aerosols or flows of gaseous medium laden therewith according to the hereinafter described principle.
  • a potential circulatory flow is excited and maintained adjacent the walls of a rotationally symmetrical vortex chamber in such a Way that it undergoes a movement in the axial direction of the vortex chamber in addition to the circulatory movement, that axial movement being opposite to the aerosol or dust-laden gas flow flowing axially into one end of the vortex chamber.
  • a component of this potential circulatory flow is diverted toward the axis of the vortex chamber at the level of the aerosol inlet and is transformed together with the aerosol into a co-axial rotational flow circulating in the same direction as the potential circulatory flow within the potential circulatory flow.
  • the particles that are to be separated are passed radially out of the rotational flow, due to the rotation, and into a branch of the potential circulatory flow delivering them into a particle outlet surrounding the aerosol, and from there into a storage chamber, while the purified aerosol discharges from the vortex chamber through a purified-gas outlet at the other end of the vortex chamber.
  • the potential circulatory flow is produced by the additional supply of a gaseous auxiliary medium which is admitted so that it joins the aerosol flow at an acute angle to the axis of the aerosol flow and in a generally tangential direction to the wall of the vortex chamber.
  • one end of a rotationally symmetrical vortex chamber an aerosol or particle-laden gas flow admitted in an axial direction in the form of a rotational flow is surrounded by a coaxial tubular-shaped vortex or vortex tube of an auxiliary gaseous medium circulating in the same direction as that of the rotational flow as well as moving in the same axial direction.
  • a coaxial tubular-shaped vortex or vortex tube of an auxiliary gaseous medium circulating in the same direction as that of the rotational flow as well as moving in the same axial direction.
  • the auxiliary gaseous medium with the potential flow circulating in a travel direction opposite to that of the aerosol fiow and at the level of the aerosol inlet once again is transformed into the vortex tube circulating with the rotational flow in such a way that the auxiliary medium is guided in a substantially closed circuit.
  • a closed circuit of the auxiliary medium can be effected by applying suction to the auxiliary medium flowing coaxially to the aerosol in the form of a vortex tube at the level of the outlet for the purified aerosol and through an annular slot or aperture in the upper portion of the vortex chamber of the separator, an auxiliary medium is newly resupplied thereto.
  • the removal of the auxiliary medium by suction and reintroduction thereof by blowing is effected, in accordance with a further feature of our invention, by an intermediately located blower means.
  • the auxiliary medium forming the outer potential circulatory flow is removed at the level of the aerosol inlet and is newly resupplied coaxially to the aerosol inlet, both by means of suction.
  • FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic view of a theoretical vortex separator constructed in accordance with the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic view of a first practical embodiment of the invention wherein the removal and resupply of the auxiliary medium by suction is eifected at the outlet end of the vortex separator;
  • FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic view of another embodiment of the vortex separator according to the invention wherein suction removal and resupply of the auxiliary medium is effected at the level of the aerosol inlet;
  • FIG. 4 is a diagrammatic view of yet another embodiment of the vortex separator according to the invention wherein a portion of the auxiliary medium is supplied through nozzles located tangential to the walls of the vortex chamber and at an acute angle to the axis of the aerosol flow.
  • the solid or liquid aerosol flows into a vortex chamber 1 through an inlet 2 in the direction of the arrows 4 and is excited for example by means of a pre-twist nozzle 3, provided with suitable vanes in a conventional manner, to form a rotational flow 5 in the direction of the associated arrowheads.
  • This inner coaxial rotational flow 5 is surrounded by a tubular-shaped vortex or vortex tube 8 of a gaseous auxiliary medium.
  • This vortex tube 8 flows, as indicated by the associated arrowheads, in the same direction as the rotational flow 5 through the vortex separator and forms therewith the radially outer limiting region of the rotational flow 5.
  • the auxiliary medium after being diverted at the level of the aerosol outlet 6, flows in the form, substantially, of a potential circulating flow 9 in a direction opposite to the travel direction of the aerosol toward the aerosol inlet 12, and at the aerosol inlet is again diverted to the rotational flow 8.
  • the path of the auxiliary medium flowing in the circuit is thereby indicated by the reference numeral 10.
  • the gaseous layer surrounding the aerosol flow 5 thus constitutes a voretx tube with respect to the axial velocity thereof, the axial velocity of the vortex tube portion which is adjacent the aerosol being in the same travel direction as that of the aerosol flow whereas the axial velocity of the portion of the vortex tube located directly at the stationary wall 1 of the vortex chamber has a direction opposite to that of the aerosol flow.
  • the particles ejected from the main gas flow or aerosol thus pass into the circulating flow 10' of the auxiliary medium and become concentrated therein.
  • the particles are discharged substantially at the reversal point of the potential to rotational flow by a branch of the potential circulatory flow into a collecting chamber 11 surrounding the aerosol inlet 2.
  • FIG. 2 there is shown means for removing the auxiliary medium by suction atthe level of the aerosol outlet 6.
  • the auxiliary medium is evacuated through an annular slot or aperture 15 of the vortex separator 1 and is resupplied by means of a blower 16 through an annular slot or aperture 17. Energy lost due to friction of the auxiliary medium in the vortex separator is replaced by the blower 16.
  • Pro-twisting of the auxiliary medium when readmitted into the vortex chamber is efiected by means of guide vanes or nozzles 13 in the annular slot 17, for supplying the readmitted auxiliary medium in such a way that it joins the aerosol flow in a generally tangential direction and at an acute angle to the axis of the aerosol flow.
  • the annular slot 17, itself can have a nozzle-like construction.
  • the removal by suction of the auxiliary medium is eifected by an annular slot 18 in the wall of the vortex chamber at the level of the aerosol inlet 2.
  • a blower 16 which serves for restoring the frictional losses in the vortex chamber, the auxiliary medium is resupplied to the vortex separator through a coaxial annular slot 19 provided in a tubular member directly connected to the aerosol inlet tube 2.
  • suitable conducting vanes or nozzles 13 can be located in the annular slot 19 to provide pre-twisting of the readmitted auxiliary flow medium.
  • a portion of the auxiliary medium removed by suction through the outlet 18 is readmitted through the nozzles 20 joining the aerosol flow in a generally tangential direction and at an acute angle to the axis of the aerosol flow for exciting the potential circulatory flow in the vortex separator.
  • the aforedescribed turbulence and scaling phenomena adjacent the wall of the vortex chamber are prevented from spreading into the aerosol flow so far as the auxiliary medium, with respect to its rotation, has a greater energy than the aerosol.
  • the auxiliary medium due to the circulatory motion, exhibits no throughput or flow-through, the entire energy content thereof does not enter into the required energy consumption for the aerosol flow proper, but rather, only the energy losses of the auxiliary medium. Consequently, with the instant invention it is possible to provide efliciently an essentially greater rotation of the aerosol flow than is posible, for example, in a conventional cyclone separator.
  • Method of increasing the separating action of a vortex separator for solid or liquid particles entrained in a gaseous carrier medium which comprises supplying particle-entrained gaseous carrier medium in an axial direction and in the form of a rotational fiow through an inlet located at one end of a rotationally symmetrical vortex chamber; surrounding the rotational flow with a tubular-shaped vortex of a gaseous auxiliary medium coaxial with and rotating in the same rotary direction as the rotational flow; discharging the carrier medium through an outlet provided in the other end of the vortex chamber; transforming the tubular-shaped vortex at the outlet of the carrier medium into the circulatory potential flow traveling at a region adjacent the wall of the vortex chamber in a direction opposite to the axial flow direction of the carrier medium and back again at the level of the carrier medium inlet into the tubular-shaped vortex surroundingthe rotational flow, so that the auxiliary medium travels in a closed circuit; removing by suction the auxiliary medium in the tubular-shaped vortex flowing in a direction coaxial
  • Method of increasing the separating action of a vortex separator for solid or liquid particles entrained in a gaseous carrier medium which comprises supplying particle-entrained gaseous carrier medium in an axial direction and in the form of a rotational flow through an inlet located at one end of a rotationally symmetrical vortex chamber; surrounding the rotational flow with a tubular-shaped vortex of a gaseous auxiliary medium coaxial with and rotating in the same rotary direction as the rotational flow; discharging the carrier medium through an outlet provided in the other end of the vortex chamber; transforming the tubular-shaped vortex at the outlet of the carrier medium into the circulatory potential flow traveling at a region adjacent the wall of the vortex chamber in a direction opposite to the axial flow direction of the carrier medium and back again at the level of the carrier medium inlet into the tubularshaped vortex surrounding the rotational flow, so that the auxiliary medium travels in a closed circuit; removing by suction the auxiliary medium forming the radially outer potential circulatory flow at the level of the carrier
  • Method of increasing the separating action of a vortex separator for solid or liquid particles entrained in a gaseous carrier medium which comprises supplying particle-entrained gaseous carrier medium in an axial direction and in the form of a rotational flow through an inlet located at one end of a rotationally symmetrical vortex chamber; surrounding the rotation-a1 flow with a tubular-shaped vortex of a gaseous auxiliary medium coaxial with and rotating in the same rotary direction as the rotational flow; discharging the carrier medium through an outlet provided in the other end of the vortex chamber; transforming the tubular-shaped vortex at the outlet of the carrier medium into the circulatory potential flow traveling at a region adjacent the Wall of the vortex chamber in a direction opposite to the axial flow direction of the carrier medium and back again at the level of the carrier medium inlet into the tubular-shaped vortex surrounding the rotational flow, so that the auxiliary medium travels in a closed circuit; removing by suction a portion of the flow of the auxiliary medium from the vortex chamber and
  • Apparatus for increasing the separating action of a vortex separator for solid or liquid particles entrained in a gaseous medium comprising a rotationally symmetrical vortex chamber having an inlet at one end for supplying particle-entrained gaseous carrier medium in an axial direction and having an outlet at the other end thereof for discharging the carrier medium; means in said inlet creating a rotational flow in said vortex chamber; inlet means extending transversely to said axial direction for supplying a gaseous auxiliary medium to said vortex chamber in the form of a tubular-shaped vortex surrounding said rotational flow, said tubular-shaped vortex being coaxial with and rotating in the same rotary direction as said rotational flow; outlet means extending transversely to said axial direction for discharging the auxiliary medium from said vortex chamber; blower means outside said vortex chamber having its negative pressure side in communication with said auxiliary medium outlet means for removing by suction from said vortex chamber the auxiliary medium flowing in a direction coaxial to the carrier medium flow axis;
  • auxiliary medium outlet means comprises an annular slot coaxial to said carrier medium outlet.
  • Apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said means for supplying auxiliary medium also comprises an annular slot coaxial to said carrier medium outlet and located adjacent the wall of said vortex chamber.
  • said means for supplying auxiliary medium comprises at least one nozzle in the wall of said vortex chamber extending in a direction tangential to the wall of said vortex chamber and at an acute angle to the axial flow direction of the carrier medium.

Landscapes

  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Power Engineering (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Fluid Mechanics (AREA)
  • Microelectronics & Electronic Packaging (AREA)
  • Cyclones (AREA)
  • Separating Particles In Gases By Inertia (AREA)
  • Centrifugal Separators (AREA)
US535799A 1965-03-20 1966-03-21 Vortex separator for solid or liquid aerosols or the like Expired - Lifetime US3396511A (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (1)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
DES0096072 1965-03-20

Publications (1)

Publication Number Publication Date
US3396511A true US3396511A (en) 1968-08-13

Family

ID=7519805

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
US535799A Expired - Lifetime US3396511A (en) 1965-03-20 1966-03-21 Vortex separator for solid or liquid aerosols or the like

Country Status (9)

Country Link
US (1) US3396511A (US07608600-20091027-C00054.png)
JP (1) JPS529870B1 (US07608600-20091027-C00054.png)
AT (1) AT267481B (US07608600-20091027-C00054.png)
BE (1) BE677303A (US07608600-20091027-C00054.png)
CH (1) CH432204A (US07608600-20091027-C00054.png)
DK (1) DK125571B (US07608600-20091027-C00054.png)
GB (1) GB1075907A (US07608600-20091027-C00054.png)
NL (1) NL147650B (US07608600-20091027-C00054.png)
SE (1) SE333919B (US07608600-20091027-C00054.png)

Cited By (10)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3593501A (en) * 1967-05-03 1971-07-20 Aberdeen Engineering Design Lt Device for separating particulate material from a mixture of particulate material and fluid
US3595392A (en) * 1969-06-13 1971-07-27 Reynolds Submarine Services Co Method of and apparatus for separating fluids having different densities
US3643800A (en) * 1969-05-21 1972-02-22 Bo Gustav Emil Mansson Apparatus for separating solids in a whirling gaseous stream
US4067814A (en) * 1975-10-30 1978-01-10 Enso-Gutzeit Osakeyhtio Hydrocyclone
US4251368A (en) * 1978-05-31 1981-02-17 National Research Development Corporation Cyclone separator
US5096467A (en) * 1986-05-09 1992-03-17 Japan Air Curtain Company, Ltd. Artificial tornado generating mechanism and method of utilizing generated artificial tornados
US5112498A (en) * 1989-11-28 1992-05-12 Orkney Water Test Centre Limited Method of coalescing a disperse phase within a continous phrase of a fluid mixture
US5262046A (en) * 1991-12-27 1993-11-16 Amoco Corporation In-line cyclone separator and method of solid/gas separation
CN104949231A (zh) * 2014-03-25 2015-09-30 欣兴电子股份有限公司 除湿设备与除湿方法
US20150362198A1 (en) * 2014-06-15 2015-12-17 Unimicron Technology Corp. Dehumidification apparatus and dehumidification method

Families Citing this family (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE1619920B1 (de) * 1967-09-27 1970-10-01 Siemens Ag Dralleinrichtung zur Vorreinigung des Rohgasstromes eines Drehstr¦mungswirblers
CN112521993A (zh) * 2020-11-13 2021-03-19 重庆科技学院 一种天然气泡沫分离装置、控制方法及应用

Citations (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2664966A (en) * 1949-01-15 1954-01-05 Raymond H Moore Dust arrester
US3064411A (en) * 1959-08-14 1962-11-20 Jr Joseph Breslove Separator
US3199270A (en) * 1960-03-25 1965-08-10 Siemens Ag Apparatus for mixing and separating substances of different mass-inertia

Patent Citations (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2664966A (en) * 1949-01-15 1954-01-05 Raymond H Moore Dust arrester
US3064411A (en) * 1959-08-14 1962-11-20 Jr Joseph Breslove Separator
US3199270A (en) * 1960-03-25 1965-08-10 Siemens Ag Apparatus for mixing and separating substances of different mass-inertia

Cited By (10)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3593501A (en) * 1967-05-03 1971-07-20 Aberdeen Engineering Design Lt Device for separating particulate material from a mixture of particulate material and fluid
US3643800A (en) * 1969-05-21 1972-02-22 Bo Gustav Emil Mansson Apparatus for separating solids in a whirling gaseous stream
US3595392A (en) * 1969-06-13 1971-07-27 Reynolds Submarine Services Co Method of and apparatus for separating fluids having different densities
US4067814A (en) * 1975-10-30 1978-01-10 Enso-Gutzeit Osakeyhtio Hydrocyclone
US4251368A (en) * 1978-05-31 1981-02-17 National Research Development Corporation Cyclone separator
US5096467A (en) * 1986-05-09 1992-03-17 Japan Air Curtain Company, Ltd. Artificial tornado generating mechanism and method of utilizing generated artificial tornados
US5112498A (en) * 1989-11-28 1992-05-12 Orkney Water Test Centre Limited Method of coalescing a disperse phase within a continous phrase of a fluid mixture
US5262046A (en) * 1991-12-27 1993-11-16 Amoco Corporation In-line cyclone separator and method of solid/gas separation
CN104949231A (zh) * 2014-03-25 2015-09-30 欣兴电子股份有限公司 除湿设备与除湿方法
US20150362198A1 (en) * 2014-06-15 2015-12-17 Unimicron Technology Corp. Dehumidification apparatus and dehumidification method

Also Published As

Publication number Publication date
GB1075907A (en) 1967-07-19
AT267481B (de) 1968-12-27
BE677303A (US07608600-20091027-C00054.png) 1966-07-18
NL6602569A (US07608600-20091027-C00054.png) 1966-09-21
DK125571B (da) 1973-03-12
SE333919B (US07608600-20091027-C00054.png) 1971-04-05
CH432204A (de) 1967-03-15
JPS529870B1 (US07608600-20091027-C00054.png) 1977-03-18
NL147650B (nl) 1975-11-17
DE1507847B1 (de) 1972-06-08

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
US3396511A (en) Vortex separator for solid or liquid aerosols or the like
US4971603A (en) Vortex tube separating device
US3744220A (en) Device for imparting a twist to a flow of raw gas in a tornado flow separator
US3507397A (en) Hydrocyclone unit
US3684093A (en) Method and apparatus for separating particles from particle-laden fluid
US3226165A (en) Method and apparatus for handling pulverulent material
US3199270A (en) Apparatus for mixing and separating substances of different mass-inertia
US2664966A (en) Dust arrester
US4789476A (en) Cyclone separator with two separating zones and static guide mechanisms
US2153026A (en) Dust collector
GB1425999A (en) Centrifugal separators
US2360355A (en) Apparatus for separating suspended particles from gaseous media
JPH0278456A (ja) 渦巻きチューブ型のガス除去装置
GB1089244A (en) Dry separator
US3358844A (en) Device for increasing the total amount of separation of a vortex separator
US2506273A (en) Particle separator
US2847087A (en) Dust collectors
US3851404A (en) Apparatus for drying particulate matter with gaseous media
US3048956A (en) Particle and fluid collector
US4161448A (en) Combined separator and pump with dirty phase concentrator
GB1034947A (en) Method of separating particles from a gaseous medium
GB1221621A (en) Centrifugal separation
US3150943A (en) Cyclone-type dust collector
SE441570B (sv) Forfarande och anordning for stoftavskiljning medelst centrifugalkraft
US3094828A (en) Centrifugal dust separator