Patent ID: 9682336
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: B01D,F01M

Claim:
1. An impact moisture separator for separating a liquid moisture from a compressed gas, the impact moisture separator comprising: a housing having an inner region; and a plurality of impact plates arranged in series within the inner region, the plurality of impact plates each having a plate portion and a plurality of vanes, the plate portion having a front side, a rear side, a base portion, and an upper portion, the front side being upstream, and on an opposite side of the plate portion, of the rear side, the upper and base portions being on opposing sides of the plate portion, the base portion being proximally adjacent to a lower inner surface of the housing, the plurality of vanes configured to provide a passage for the flow of compressed gas, the passage defined by opposing vane surfaces to convey the flow of compressed gas traversing the passage in a direction extending along a decline from at least the front side to the rear side of the plate portion, the decline configured to direct the flow of compressed gas in a direction that influences the flow of coalesced liquid moisture that has collected on the front side of the plate portion of the subsequent impact plate of the plurality of impact plates toward the base portion of the subsequent impact plate, the front side of the plate portion being angularly offset from an adjacent portion of the lower inner surface of the housing by a plate tilt angle that is less than 90 degrees such that the front portion of the plate portion is positioned upstream relative to a location of an opposing lower portion of the plate portion, the plurality of vanes for each of the plurality of impact plates are offset from the plurality of vanes of an adjacent impact plate of the plurality of impact plates to provide an impact of at least a portion of the flow of compressed gas flowing through the plurality of vanes with the front side of the plate portion of the adjacent impact plate.